Only God can do this...the results are His.

I'm full of praise over the two projects on the move in Kansas City and St. Louis. There is healthy groundwork being laid in Kansas City and we have launched our first Church in St. Louis after the first four months with Pastor Terry Goodwin on board. As for Kansas City, Anthony Marks has just been joined by Matthew Farrell & Derek and Amy Mleynek who are forming a strong team while touching lives in preparation for God's miracle of birthing of a Church. Please pray for the first home group this Sunday night and the Super Bowl Party with some new friends. While it seems slow going at times we have seen that if we lay the right disciple-making foundation we will see this work multiply out quickly.

Let me share some St. Louis highlights as well. True Vine Missionary Church (our first disciple driven Church in S.L.) is meeting all over the place, a Baptist College, The Bread Company, in homes, in coffee shops, in worship gatherings as a larger group and wherever and whenever as God open doors. This growing congregation has in her DNA the vision of being the Church in the world and not just doing church on Sunday. Through one of our members we have reached into the home of a lady dying with cancer and her son (an hours and a half from here) by helping the son to find a foster home when mom dies and also by serving with repairs, cleaning, painting and a home makeover for them. One of our members came across a single father of six children and we stepped in. This family was burned out of their home, then back on their feet, then dad broke two vertebra in his back and will be off work into February so True Vine adopted them by pledging to meet every need for two months are longer as needed until dad goes back to work. God provided everything from rent money, furniture, utility assistance, food and when Pastor Terry asked dad what they needed besides the necessities mentioned he replied, "Before our house burned down me and the kids enjoyed making smoothies every night and if we had a blender my kids and I would be so blessed." God gave them a blender.

God is raising up a Church mobilized to live in the world so that Christ may shine through them and so that through them Christ can redeem the lost. Being the Church is more important than doing church and God is giving us divine moments in the lives of those He sends our way.