I announced on Sunday, with about 400 in attendance, that we have a new church name! We are now Transformation Church! I can't tell you how excited I am to begin a new chapter in the history of this great church. In January of 2011, God impressed upon my heart that it was time to change the name of our church. He showed me that often times, when He did a new thing in the lives of people He changed their name. For example, Abram to Abraham, Saul to Paul, and Jacob to Israel. Ruth and I spent some time praying and searching for that new name until we found Transformation Church.
We spoke to our Leadership Team about the name change and everyone agreed that it was time to change the name. I spent the rest of the year praying and asking God to confirm the new name. Throughout the year, God confirmed over and over again that the name was indeed going to be Transformation Church.
The new name speaks to our mission. We are all about seeing lives transformed. My prayer that is that Transformation Church would be about transforming lives, families, marriages, the community and the world with the power of God's love. God is not only calling our church to be about transformation, He is calling each of our partners to be transformers. Within each and every one of us, we have been given the power to transform the world.
In addition to announcing our new church name, I announced the results of our capital campaign. I am happy to say that in one Sunday we raised $150,000! God is Able! This was a huge victory for us and for our church. With those funds we were are able to complete most of the renovations and repairs to our facility. On Sunday, we opened our new cafe'. For years, I have wanted to open a cafe where people can come together and connect over a cup of coffee. Within a year I hope to have it open to the community.
It's amazing to see how the vision that God had put on my heart years ago is becoming a reality. In addition to the cafe' we opened a new kids wing with newly renovated kids classrooms, all equipped with flat screen tv's and blu-ray players, as well as a computerized kids check in system.
Transformation Church is moving forward. We know that this is just the beginning for what God has in store for us. Every day I wake up and thank God for bringing me to Transformation Church. I know that 2012 is going to be an incredible year of growth and transformations. I know that God is going to blow our minds as we continue to fulfill the mission of helping people far from God become fully devoted followers of Jesus.
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