Growing

Growing in Numbers
We outgrew our kid's church room, so this past week, we made the move to our new digs! It's very exciting to make this kind of change even though it means a bit of set up and tear down each week. I'm so blessed to have such a great team mate in Pastor Danny, our Student Ministries pastor. He is so generously sharing his youth room with us and is even helping with the transition each week to turn it into Building 2:52. It's amazing what some black sheets, banners and crawl tunnels will do for the look of a room. The kids loved it Sunday and we can accommodate so many more!

Growing Spiritually
God is really doing some amazing things throughout our church and the kids are right there, too. It's so cool to see them growing spiritually and taking the messages we have in Building 2:52 and applying them to their lives. That's when you know they are growing in Jesus; when a Bible story comes to life for them and they realize it's there to help them in their lives too, not just the person in the Bible. Plus fourteen kids have accepted Jesus as their Savior in the last three months!

Growing in Outreach
We just finished up a series on purity and are now going into a series on the Parables of Jesus. In the midst we will have two weeks to celebrate Palm Sunday and Easter. Our Easter plans for WFA are really coming together and it's going to be incredible! I'm praying for 125 kids on our campus that day. We will have something special for birth on up and the adults are welcome, too. Just kidding...we have some great plans for Big Church that people will be talking about for months to come!

Another very exciting area of outreach is our bus ministry. We are taking steps right now to bus in kids and their families on Sunday mornings. We have been bussing on Wednesday nights but we know there are many who would love a ride to church on Sunday, too.

Growing the Team
Our kid's department team is growing, too. We have something very special; people who are excited to serve kids. I know I'm biased but kid's are arguably the most unreached, unserved population in most churches and yet one of the most important areas of the church if not the most important. But not here at WFA! We are investing in our kids with our time, talents and treasure! If this community knows nothing else about our church they will know we LOVE kids and welcome them in Jesus' name!