What parents care about one month after giving birth to a child, more than anything else, is that their baby is healthy. A healthy baby will grow into a mature adult.
Four services in (including our preview service) I am proud to say that Legacy Church is healthy. Many church plants desire growth over health and it can lead to detrimental effects.
Here are just a few ways in which we have worked hard at being a healthy church:
- We have a great leadership team of men who help carry the weight of leading Legacy Church and who also provide great wisdom.
- We are seeing new people regularly at Legacy Church.
- We've launched incredible children and youth ministries. We'll average 30-40 youth under the age of 18 who come to Legacy Church. That's a GREAT start!
- Our financial giving has been steady.
- We have fun and love each other as a staff.
- We have lots of people who help serve and volunteer. The YMCA janitor told me yesterday that he was impressed with the volunteerism of our group! We are doing what we can to create ownership of the ministry.
- We have a tenacious desire to see our community hear about Jesus! We are not complacent and have some neat things planned in the next few months to be a blessing to our community.
- We are setting up healthy patterns for our staff and church.
- We have a diverse mix of people with many different backgrounds.
- We are getting ready to train small group leaders so we can launch our family small group ministry in January. Healthy churches foster discipleship and mentorship relationships!
We are in no way a perfect church. We've already made plenty of mistakes. Our aim is to learn from our mistakes though and make good choices to promote health.
As always a healthier you is a better you and a healthier Legacy Church will make healthier disciples of Jesus! We are excited to see what God does in the future with His church!
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