Greetings!
The largest church planting church in the Western USA has just partnered with us. Hope Church in Las Vegas with Pastor Vance Pitman invited us to be part of their church planting team. We will be traveling there three times this year to get ready to launch and expand the new church plant. Pastor Vance is the keynote speaker at many church planting conferences.
On Good Friday, Hope Church called me and said, “We believe in you and are excited about what you are doing in Loveland. We want to partner with you.”
They brought us out there this past weekend for the purpose of training us, commissioning us, and inviting their 3,000-member congregation to move to Loveland and start the church with us.
He introduced each of us 9 church planters and our families, then he told nearly 3,000 church members last Sunday morning to pray and ask God if He was calling them to move with us to plant a church. Wow!
Pastor Vance inviting the congregation to personally join us in planting these churches.
I heard him say it 4 times – once at each service. This is what a focus on The Kingdom looks like!
They will be bringing us out there later this year for another major conference and then a retreat. We are thrilled at this wonderful opportunity.
They are pouring into us the things they have learned about:
- Elements of a healthy ministry culture.
- Leadership structure.
- Creating messages for life-change.
- Creativity within the church.
- Connection and Community.
- Developing leaders.
- Strategic ministry planning.
- Ministry to the family.
- Cross-cultural mobilization.
- Ministry services: facilities, finances, and human relations.
- Partnering effectively.
We could not be more honored than this. It was really a great time and a big deal. And we got to fellowship with other like-minded church planters.
Blessings!!
Bill Stevens
Please pray with us!
Jesus said ” But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”Matthew 9:36-38
Please pray that God will raise up people to join us in this great work! It is bigger than us and we need Him to move on people to join us and help us fulfill the work God has called us to here.
