We’ve been reflecting back over our journey and it is amazing how God has brought us to this position in the Body of Christ. Every week, we meet in a very unique facility where we are able to share a couple of hours worshipping the Lord, enjoying one another’s fellowship, and engaging the Word of God.
The Lord put in on our hearts to record these special moments and release video clips over the internet so that we could stay connected with our church family throughout the week. We had no idea that people, who find themselves “in between churches”, would discover these video clips.
Little did we know that people from all over the world would begin to access the videos and begin to daily explore our website. Our website analytics report reads like a United Nations roll call.
For some reason, God is making this ministry extremely effective on the internet. For seven years we have agonized over the low physical attendance, while marveling at the incredible internet influence.
What an amazing journey. Now we look forward to someday being able to take it to the next level by going live with our Sunday gathering. That’s going to be very exciting.
In the meantime, we continue on this journey. We promised our church family from the beginning, that this would be an adventure that we would take on together.
The past few months, we’ve been slowly walking through our Fruitful Lifestyle Development series. This series has caused us to traverse through some highly controversial issues. As soon as we took on the task of teaching about the Assurance and Security of our Salvation, we knew we were moving into some lonely waters in this community.
Since then, we’ve taught key principles to encourage the dream that God has encoded within every human being. Then we started going through the Lifestyle of Victorious Believers which includes having a word-filled life, a spirit-filled life, and a lifestyle of prayer, praise and worship.
When you look back over those weeks of teaching, you can see that the Lord has been guiding us in a wonderful path of understanding His ways.
Along with those teaching sessions, we took a couple of months to engage in the Lifetree Conversation Café. Those special Sunday sessions featured video clips of real people and their real stories. This provided us the opportunity to really get to know one another through personal conversation and dialogue. Since then, we have shifted the conversations to Wednesday evenings where we continue to learn more about one another and the ways of God. The Lifetree Conversations will conclude in September, but they have been a wonderful addition to our ministry.
