Anymore new churches/missions?

To date we have recorded 11 new churches/missions and 1 Bible group having been started since June of 2007. If there are more out there we would love to hear about them.

We have also heard of three works that have closed their doors this last year. But all of that information is not in yet since we only started that research a couple of months ago.

If 11 new works is all that we can determine for 2007/08 then that's all there is! Out of over 1200 churches this is less than a one per-cent increase in the last year. Then subtract the three that closed their doors and you see where we are.

The obvious conclusion will be that we are not starting new churches nor starting new missions to an acceptable level. Where is all the mission money going to in the USA through our ABA work? If we have received over two million dollars for missions surely we would be seeing more new works started than what we have seen.

From my understanding (someone straighten me out if I am wrong) we added new interstate missionaries but not one went out to start a new work but instead took over existing works. How long can we do this and expect an increase in new churches being started?

Please understand, my desire is to see our fellowship start more churches/missions. What are we going to do about this matter? We would love to hear what your solution would be to this really big problem.

David

Faith Promise Conference at Greater Heights

Greater Heights is having their first annual faith promise missions conference beginning last night May 23 and going through Sunday May 25th.

Bro Harold Williams is our keynote speaker from Macedonian Missionary Service in Florida. He did a great job getting us started by teaching the basics of faith promise giving. We have 7 missionaries and ministries represented from around the USA and the world.

We are praying that God increase our faith and help our unbelief in the matter of what God desires to give through us for global missions.

David

Moving into our new offices

It's been a few weeks since my last blog. Busyness has kept me going in a dozen different directions.

We have just recently leased a church office in Angleton. This will help me to get down to business with a number of church relted duties and give our people a place to come for fellowship and counselling, or whatever. We have located a 900 sqft office on the main hiway 288B. We are moving in this week and hopefully operational by next week.

In the meantime Servant Evangelism, new ministries, and small groups are our focus. We are slowly developing each of these areas as God opens doors.