2 r9 Churches Planted!

Over the last few weeks, 2 of the church planters that were at NLC for r9, planted their churches.

On February 8, Stacy and Amy Turney launched Church at the Crossing in Dothan, Alabama, and yesterday, February 22, Ashley and Jaime Wilson launched Life Gate Church in Lexington, Kentucky.

They both had great turn outs for their first services and God is going to do some awesome stuff in them! Here’s what Jamie Wilson from Life Gate said about their time in Ft. Myers right before their launch:

We do launch Sunday…6 days…aaaaahhhh!  We feel pretty prepared though – thanks to R9 (I don’t know what we would have done without that week).  We had our final “practice” service this week and it went really well.  We unloaded in 30 min and set up in 45 and we were short 3 families, so we felt positive about that.  We also had a couple come in that no one knew that was new to the area and found our website; we were really excited about that!

Hope you guys get to come see us sometime.
Thanks for all your help – we couldn’t have done it without you guys (well, not as gracefully anyway), Jamie

And here’s what she said about the launch:

“it snowed and snowed and snowed…but we still had 130 so we were happy about that! the kids area wen’t great, our first series is a pirate theme and they loved it and were telling there parents when they left that they have to come back to get the rest of the pirate outfit (we are giving them a piece each week) so i’m really happy with that. we had 23 kids. ash did great and the worship was awesome…all in all a great day!.”

God is doing awesome stuff through them, and if you are a part of NLC and making it happen, then you played a part in creating more environments where people could invite their friends and family that don’t have a relationship with Jesus. Great job!