http://www.cityviewchurch.net/
Times are a changing in the Stamps house! It has been a long, hard yet exciting journey but we have finally decided that we are joining a new church plant here in Texas! I have put the churches website above because they do a pretty good job of painting a picture of what they are all about.
It's good stuff...good God stuff:)
Anyways here's the story: (in short....very short:)
Greg and I are so excited for this next chapter in our lives!
We are beginning to explore the possibility of planting a church one day ourselves!!!
Wow, that's is so crazy to type out:/ Now it's in black in white...now it's real! :)
To make a long story short we have always had a heart for this but not until recently (over the last year) have we really felt a pull, a tug, an uncomfortable restlessness in our souls to JUST DO SOMETHING!
Maintaining is just not our thing:)
This church we have decided to plug into is ALL about reproducing and training church planters so we believe we are in just the right place. We, of course, have so many questions, uncertainties and a bit of anxiety about the whole thing BUT we feel such a peace, weird right?
No, not weird at all...we believe the Bible is our guide to the will of God.
He tells us what He desires in black and white and we just can't deny the fact that the Lord is a missionary God...a God or reproduction and movement and we want to GO with Him. We want to go with Him to the people, the people He loves and wants to gather to Himself.
Like I said we are still uncertain but are ready to learn and be equipped and who knows it could be that God just wanted us to be willing and ready and we will end up going another direction, but honestly right now all that doesn't matter!
What does matter to us is that we are poised and ready for where He takes us, whether it's Colorado (which we are always exploring;) or Uganda....we will go, we will plant wherever, we just want to be wise, ready and unattached to this world.
So, over the next few years, maybe more maybe less, there could be alot of changes in our family.
Let's do this!:)
*on a side note:
For those of you who know Todd Cook... the lead pastor of City View was in Todd's youth group (the church right before he came to us at FBC Raytown...was it Nolan Road?...anyways, crazy right????!!!
Such a small world!!!
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That is so neat! We have had very similar conversations at our house and actually helped start a church plant with 5 other people in June. It has been one of the greatest things (and honestly, hardest) that we've gotten to be a part of. Hope it's training for us to GO too someday soon :)
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