Its so cool to witness little signs of growth within the faith community of RiverChurch. In many ways its like watching little green leaves pushing through the soil that covers the original seed. Each week that we come together for our time of prayer I can see more and more signs of life:
- a community of Christ followers is truly forming
- we’re becoming more and more like family
-we pray together, worship together, laugh together and cry together.
And more growth is obvious. So many people have told us that they would love to meet with us, but work schedules make it so difficult for them to join us. So we’re making plans to start a weekend gathering in August. As of now our plans are to meet on Saturday evenings. We’re still trying to secure a location. But this gathering will be a time of worship and sharing the truths of Scripture for adults and Children. This will not be our official launch, but it will give us the opportunity to be more prepared for an official launch in January of 2010.
We’ll be explaining why we’re meeting on Saturday night’s a little later. But if you would like to help us prepare for this we would love to have your support. Here’s how you can be involved:
- Finances. All gifts to RiverChurch are tax deductible and can be made online by clicking the GIVE tab at the top or you can mail your gift to RiverChurch Chattanooga, PO Box 22054, Chattanooga, TN 37422. Your gifts will help us with initial start-up expenses, like equipment, building rental, and other things we really need to get up and running.
- Prayer. Join with us as we are praying for the right location. We’re looking into a couple of leads, and we’re praying that God will open the perfect door for us.
- Participation. We’re still building our launch team, and we’ll begin our official launch team meetings in August. If you’re interested in helping us get started, we’re simply asking our launch team members to give us up to three months after we launch. If they help us get started and officially launch in January, then we’re asking them to stick with us at least until March and then they are free to stay involved, or do something different. In some cases that will mean people returning to their home churches, after they’ve helped us get up on our feet during the first three months.
So you see we’re growing. We’re not a tree yet, but our roots are growing deep in a foundation of prayer, and little signs of life can definitely be seen in RiverChurch, and I gotta tell you its EXCITING!!!!
