Today marked a major milestone in our journey to start a new church in Austin. Our team of 19 adults and 10 kids was commissioned this morning by our mother church Hill Country Bible Church Northwest. It was a moving moment to stand together with our team in front of several thousand people at HCBC Northwest being prayed for by the current and former elders of the church and send out to continue the vision to reach every man woman and child in Greater Austin with the life changing reality of Jesus Christ.
This closes a chapter of our lives, namely the Residency phase at HCBC. We are being lovingly kicked out of the nest to see more people impacted by the grace and love of God. For our church-plant, the City community church, that means in particular the people of Central Austin. We are now gearing up for our public launch on September 21st 2008, excited to see what God has in store for us!
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Soft Launch
Sunday August 3rd marked the first service in our soft-launch series that will lead us to our public launch on September 21st 2008. We will be having services on August 3rd, 10th, 24th and September 7th and 14th before we publicly launch THE CITY community church!
We wanted to gain an idea for how the room would feel, how long our setup might take and some of the other logistics involved in transforming a school cafeteria into a cool space for a church. And mind you this is not your average school cafeteria!
Baker School has a theatrical stage in their cafeteria, and high 50ft. ceilings which will make the space incredible once our team gets done with it.
Over 30 people showed up to our first installment of THE CITY's soft-launch and we had a great time celebrating communion, worship and the first message in a series on Prayer: HOW NOT TO PRAY... Part two will be Prayer: How Jesus taught us, Part three is Prayer: Persistent Prayer.
We are so excited to finally be meeting in our space and can't wait to invite our neighbors, co-workers and friends to join us for church.
We wanted to gain an idea for how the room would feel, how long our setup might take and some of the other logistics involved in transforming a school cafeteria into a cool space for a church. And mind you this is not your average school cafeteria!
Baker School has a theatrical stage in their cafeteria, and high 50ft. ceilings which will make the space incredible once our team gets done with it.
Over 30 people showed up to our first installment of THE CITY's soft-launch and we had a great time celebrating communion, worship and the first message in a series on Prayer: HOW NOT TO PRAY... Part two will be Prayer: How Jesus taught us, Part three is Prayer: Persistent Prayer.
We are so excited to finally be meeting in our space and can't wait to invite our neighbors, co-workers and friends to join us for church.
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