A Little Life History
Life Church began
in March of 1985 with just eleven adults and one little girl. Our
vision was to become a church that reached out to hurt and
hurting people with the power of God's love and forgiveness, His
acceptance and consolation. We wanted a balanced church where our
fundamental beliefs could meet up with charismatic joy! We
believed that sort of church would be well received as people
experienced it, but little did we realize...
Within weeks of
getting started, we outgrew the home where we were meeting and
rented some facilities in a retail center. Within a few months we
acquired the first ten acres of our present twenty-acre site and
began developing plans to build. Just after our second
anniversary we dedicated the building we currently meet in for
worship!
Today, there are many people
who call Life Church their church home, and we are living out our
early goals to touch our city with something special. With
stirring music (our worship leader came to us from the Church of
God in Christ), genuine caring (we place a high emphasis on
developing "eternal" friendships), multiple voice
instructional teaching (we use a "salad bowl" concept),
captivating and informative children's ministries (everybody
needs their own place), fun fellowships (we play as hard as we
serve!), and dynamic outreach into the community (our
co-opetition [rather than competition] with several other
churches and concepts like our "Freemarkets" have made
a definitive impact), God is building a place of strength and
refuge out of a people called "Life."
Through
the years we have prospered as a congregation in many ways. While
we feel privileged and happy to have such a sterling record, we
understand God's call to us is to continue channeling His life
and blessings in ever-increasing ways. We recognize that the role
of the church is not to be a depository of God's blessings, but a
distribution point for them through many different types of
ministry
and we try to foster as many of them as Father
places in the hearts of His sons and daughters
It's that
understanding that causes us to reach out to you and say...
"Just come as you are
theres a place for you
a place where youll be
loved!"
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