Thoughts Across The Bow

Quick Update: We have started taking concrete steps to transition our small group into a launch team (recruiting, gathering, and building community). Juli and I attended our second church planting assessment with the Send Network SBTC. We felt like it went well. We received good feedback and learned a lot from some experienced church planters and their wives. We should hear back from SBTC in the next couple of weeks. It was an encouraging assessment and left us excited about the journey ahead. I also started the “Finishing Residency” program with the Houston Church Planting Network, which will last for about nine months.  Why Plant a Church? After transitioning from a steady career to the unknown journey of planting a church, it has generated conversations and questions. One of the questions that I received is, why plant a church? After all, there are churches on “every corner” and in nearly every town in the Bible Belt.  First, church planting is a biblical pattern that we se...

Friends and Future Partners, My wife, Juli, and I felt a call to plant a church in 2020 through the encouragement and support of our church small group in Cypress, TX. Several other couples within our church sensed a collective call to plant a church in Cypress, and we hope this small group will eventually become our launch team. The elders at our church, Redeemer Church in Tomball, Texas have also affirmed this calling and have agreed to take me on as a Church Planting Resident. I have completed my M.A. in Theological Studies, and I am working on completing a M.Div. With the encouragement of my elders, I completed the Foundational Church Planting Residency with the Houston Church Planting Network and was invited to join their Finishing Residency for continued weekly training. We also went through a formal church planting assessment and received a recommendation to plant a church. Juli and I have been married for 15 years and have three awesome kids: Janae, Piper, and Judson. ...