- Gilliam Springs has always been a church
that has bought in to missions,
the Great Commission,
and Jamie came to me one day and he said
hey, what do you think about us planting a church?
And my response was
I can't believe we hadn't already planted one.
We said, okay,
what we wanna do at this point
is we just want to,
we wanna pray about this.
We don't have no idea what it looks like,
where it's gonna be or when we're gonna do it.
All we know is this burden's on our heart
to plant a church.
- I just began to wonder
why couldn't we do something?
Why shouldn't we, really,
was sort of the heartbeat behind that.
If the Lord's blessing here,
why would he not use us
to be a blessing to Huntsville?
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- Through prayer and just other people
kind of speaking into it,
realized that God was calling us
to plant and plant in Huntsville.
We started seeing and noticing
what God's doing in this area,
but also, the reality that there's still so much
more to do in this area.
There's a lot of brokenness
and there's a lack of church presence here.
For all those reasons,
we feel like God has kind of
pinpointed this area for us.
Within the DNA of the church
at the foundation is this idea of training up,
making disciples that are ready to go out
and plant more churches.
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- I'm just grateful to be a part of a body,
a Southern Baptist body,
that's much bigger than just one church.
We can do so much more together
than we can do alone.
This support from the training aspect
from Alabama Baptist,
Alabama State Board of Missions
has been so important to us.
Even in the few months that we've been going,
we've had opportunities to use those resources
for the good of this community
and to share the gospel with this community
in tangible ways.
- Those dollars, they're not just off into nothing.
It comes back home
and it allows us to expand our ministry
and hopefully, expand the gospel
and the kingdom of God.
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