Building For The Future

The word is out. We have begun an expansion project which will effectively double our meeting space.  We are growing and this is an exciting time in the history and the future of Lake Hills! God is faithfully bringing people to us as well as leading us to them.  He is also, little by little, [...]

Top Issues Church Planters Face, Issue #5

Vision isn’t taught, it’s caught. It means you have to let it burn like a fire inside you, and let that fire out in ways that other people can feel…

Top Issues Church Planters Face, Issue #4

Starting a new church like ours is fraught with pitfalls.  The mortality rate for brand new churches in the U.S. is astronomical; most fail.  We have been following a series of articles about starting new churches by Ed Stetzer at the Lifeway Research Blog.  This series provides insight into the processes and stresses a new [...]

Top Issues Church Planters Face, Issue #3

Creating a team to handle the work of a new church plant is very difficult.  At least that’s my experience.  In all fairness, our church plant is what’s known in church planting circles as a “parachute drop”.  This means the planter comes to an area where he doesn’t have a base or pool of relationships [...]

Why Start Another Church?

This is a question I get asked from time to time.  “Why start another church?”, or,  “Don’t we have enough churches?”, or, “Why not just help an existing church grow?” These question are most often asked by those who are already Christians and church goers. It’s really hard to help existing churches grow through new [...]

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