My Heroes

20Apr09

I have to have one of the greatest jobs in the world. I work with an organization called ARC that helps church planters start churches. Over the last 8 years, we have helped over 100 couples start churches all across America.

These church planters are my heroes. Almost on a weekly basis in this first quarter, I’ve gotten calls, emails and texts of how the church planter’s first Sunday went. Most puke and get really nervous wondering if anyone will show up. They have worked for more than a year to do the legal and business work, build their team, raise a ton of cash to buy equipment and advertising, and have prayed their socks off. The first service comes and every planter has a bunch of people show up – anywhere from 100 to 600.

I love these guys. They, their families and their teams have given it all to build a church that reaches people that typically don’t go to church. And their journey has just begun.

There are two big church planting seasons, the first quarter of the year and the fall – around September. Today was the last one of our church plants for this “season” and it was church number 30. That means that by the time we go through the fall season, we may very well top 60 or more new plants in this year alone! Troy Shaw of Oasis Church launched a new satellite campus with over 450 people today in Snellville, GA, a suburb of Atlanta. He sent me a text around 6 pm tonight. And he was pretty pumped.

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