This weekend will be a big step in the path to planting Growing Faith Church. I will have the opportunity to share a little bit about how God brought us to this point and what plans we have in this Sunday’s services at PG Baptist. At the end of each service, we will be commissioned by the church to be sent out by them to plant this church. It is exciting to come out of the background and start to share publicly what God is doing.
In preparation for this milestone, there have been a lot of things checked off of the massive to-do list that comes with church planting. Our church is legally incorporated, it has an address (a post office box), and its own phone number. The first version of our church webpage will go public on Sunday at GrowingFaithNC.com and we will start the first stages of active fundraising for the project. We had hoped to have our branding done by this Sunday, but our logo is still in the design phase. I’m impatient, but trying to trust in God’s timing for everything.
Since you all have been so faithful to pray for us through the early stages of this journey, I wanted to share a couple of things with you before the rest of the church hears them on Sunday. (Sunday’s services will be livestreamed as usual and available through the PGBC website after that.) The first is a bit of news. We will be holding a “Vision Gathering” on Sunday, January 14th at 6pm in the Pleasant Garden Baptist Fellowship Hall. This will be a time to get more detailed information about the church plant’s mission, vision, and strategy and a time where those who might be a part of our mission team can find out how to apply for that. Second, here is a introductory video about Growing Faith that will be shown before the message in both services on Sunday.
We are so excited about this big next step, but we have a lot of prayer needs that we would ask you to pray with us about. First, pray that our logo gets done and that we eventually have one that we are excited about. Second, pray for this Sunday’s services – pray especially that Brian communicates well and that God uses these services to call people to be a part of this mission. We are really praying for the right people to go with us to plant this church and we have several specific leadership roles we need to fill before we launch services sometime in 2025. Pray for Brian and Jeana as they continue to figure out the logistics of forming a team, training them, and preparing them for the work of reaching the lost in Liberty. Finally, pray that God would reveal the location in the area where he wants us to meet at his church.
Thank you all for being prayer warriors! Once the church’s official website goes public, I may stop posting here. There will be a Growing Faith newsletter (hopefully monthly) that you can sign up for on the new website that will keep you informed on our progress and prayer needs.