1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,460 - Gilliam Springs has always been a church 2 00:00:02,460 --> 00:00:04,140 that has bought in to missions, 3 00:00:04,140 --> 00:00:05,520 the Great Commission, 4 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:07,410 and Jamie came to me one day and he said 5 00:00:07,410 --> 00:00:09,930 hey, what do you think about us planting a church? 6 00:00:09,930 --> 00:00:11,640 And my response was 7 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,940 I can't believe we hadn't already planted one. 8 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:16,733 We said, okay, 9 00:00:16,733 --> 00:00:17,760 what we wanna do at this point 10 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:18,870 is we just want to, 11 00:00:18,870 --> 00:00:20,160 we wanna pray about this. 12 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,230 We don't have no idea what it looks like, 13 00:00:22,230 --> 00:00:25,500 where it's gonna be or when we're gonna do it. 14 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:27,270 All we know is this burden's on our heart 15 00:00:27,270 --> 00:00:28,380 to plant a church. 16 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:31,140 - I just began to wonder 17 00:00:31,140 --> 00:00:32,610 why couldn't we do something? 18 00:00:32,610 --> 00:00:33,870 Why shouldn't we, really, 19 00:00:33,870 --> 00:00:36,000 was sort of the heartbeat behind that. 20 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,100 If the Lord's blessing here, 21 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:40,050 why would he not use us 22 00:00:40,050 --> 00:00:41,936 to be a blessing to Huntsville? 23 00:00:41,936 --> 00:00:45,103 (gentle upbeat music) 24 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:49,020 - Through prayer and just other people 25 00:00:49,020 --> 00:00:50,130 kind of speaking into it, 26 00:00:50,130 --> 00:00:51,630 realized that God was calling us 27 00:00:51,630 --> 00:00:54,450 to plant and plant in Huntsville. 28 00:00:54,450 --> 00:00:56,310 We started seeing and noticing 29 00:00:56,310 --> 00:00:57,840 what God's doing in this area, 30 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,750 but also, the reality that there's still so much 31 00:01:00,750 --> 00:01:02,583 more to do in this area. 32 00:01:03,930 --> 00:01:05,280 There's a lot of brokenness 33 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,460 and there's a lack of church presence here. 34 00:01:08,460 --> 00:01:09,480 For all those reasons, 35 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,220 we feel like God has kind of 36 00:01:11,220 --> 00:01:13,170 pinpointed this area for us. 37 00:01:13,170 --> 00:01:15,310 Within the DNA of the church 38 00:01:16,170 --> 00:01:20,340 at the foundation is this idea of training up, 39 00:01:20,340 --> 00:01:22,650 making disciples that are ready to go out 40 00:01:22,650 --> 00:01:24,147 and plant more churches. 41 00:01:24,147 --> 00:01:27,647 (upbeat inspiring music) 42 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,810 - I'm just grateful to be a part of a body, 43 00:01:30,810 --> 00:01:32,010 a Southern Baptist body, 44 00:01:32,010 --> 00:01:34,473 that's much bigger than just one church. 45 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,080 We can do so much more together 46 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:38,880 than we can do alone. 47 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,860 This support from the training aspect 48 00:01:40,860 --> 00:01:42,150 from Alabama Baptist, 49 00:01:42,150 --> 00:01:44,520 Alabama State Board of Missions 50 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,530 has been so important to us. 51 00:01:46,530 --> 00:01:48,540 Even in the few months that we've been going, 52 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:52,650 we've had opportunities to use those resources 53 00:01:52,650 --> 00:01:54,090 for the good of this community 54 00:01:54,090 --> 00:01:56,340 and to share the gospel with this community 55 00:01:56,340 --> 00:01:57,960 in tangible ways. 56 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,550 - Those dollars, they're not just off into nothing. 57 00:02:02,550 --> 00:02:04,680 It comes back home 58 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,320 and it allows us to expand our ministry 59 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,150 and hopefully, expand the gospel 60 00:02:09,150 --> 00:02:10,422 and the kingdom of God. 61 00:02:10,422 --> 00:02:13,922 (upbeat inspiring music)