We Love the Church!

We love the church!  God has set forth an amazing blueprint for expressing His love to the world through His people – we are the Church and amidst its imperfections and quirks there is great power and beauty expressed by the corporate body of believers called the church.  That is why we love planting churches too.  We get to be at the birthing phase of this amazing redemptive process God has set up here on earth. 

Just the other Sunday one the men that comes before service to set up the chairs and help with the sound system began to share his burden for the lost and urgency for the church to rise up and be who we are called to be.  I (Chad) smiled and shouted a great big “yes!” inside of me as he mentioned the need for our church to have healthy families that can be models and guides for the new people that will be coming.  I challenged him and myself that we need to be those families.  We need to live as examples of the hope, joy, peace, love and restoration found in Christ for the whole family.  Healthy families are attractive.

For the months of January and February we are focusing heavily on everything related to the family during our mid-week Bible studies.  Being arguably the largest felt need, not to mention real need in our community we have decided to help rebuild families one life at a time.  One way we are doing that is by modeling.  Fabiola and I have both been blessed in our pasts to have godly families in our churches that we can watch and learn from and then follow in their footsteps.  It is our desire to raise-up many families that will be examples and leaders in the community in our church plant – leading to even greater growth and health in our church and community in the months and years to come. 

There is nothing better than ministering life on life – meaning we share our time, energy, resources and life with the rest of the church family.  They see our successes and our failures and they are there with us when we need to make decisions about the family.  Addressing the relationship between husband and wife, parents and children and even the process of preparing for marriage or dating has a profound impact on individuals and families as we live it out in front of them as well as teach and preach it at a study.

Please pray for us and these families as we press into restoring this foundational building block of society that has been ravaged over the last several generations.  God is pleased at our pursuits and we sense His favor; the enemy, however, has not been giving up easy and there is an increased awareness of the intensity of this battle. 

Chad & Fabiola