Hi and welcome to Texas Loves Utah!
Thank you for joining me here and committing to walk alongside us on what is sure to be the adventure of our lives! As you may know, I am part of a church-planting team who has moved from Weatherford, Texas to Salt Lake County, Utah just this week! I can't believe how time has flown during the months of preparation and now we are finally here!
WHY UTAH?
For the past year or so God has been speaking to our pastor Ben Helton and his wife Kristen, and my husband Cody and I, about an opportunity to re-locate to Salt Lake County, Utah with the purpose of starting a new church and ministering to the lost here. God wants us to be a part of the work He is doing in a city that is less than 2% reached, a city where almost 30, 000 people live without even 1 Christian church! After a year of prayer and consideration, we have answered “yes” to this call. We are here, together with a church planting team of 4 families, to bring the gospel where it is desperately needed!
OUR HEARTS
We want the people of Herriman, Utah to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior and to find freedom in His perfect grace and love. The culture we've joined is one of neighborly love, good deeds, and hard work. Still, so many here do not know the GRACE that Jesus died to bring us. Our prayer is that as we are meeting people and building friendships, God will use us to show HIS love- a love that is unconditional and perfect, a love that died on a cross and did ALL the work to make salvation FREE to us!
JOIN US
The purpose of this blog is to connect you, our body of believers back in Texas and across the nation, with what God will be doing through us in here in Utah. So many of you have surpassed our highest hopes in your generous giving toward this mission. What a blessing it is to know that your hearts are not only to give, but to partner with us as we bring the life-changing gospel of Jesus to Utah! Our hope is that your next step will be to follow along with us via this blog and PRAY for the specific needs you read about here.
MEET THE TEAM!
Lead Pastor Ben Helton, his wife Kristen, and their kiddos Rachel, Karis, and Jaxson
Adam and Rebecca Harris
Jessica Stephenson
My husband Cody and I, and our baby girl Jaz
Even though we are all super busy settling in right now, God is ALREADY bringing people into our paths that we feel certain we are meant to love and minister to! I want to invite you to follow this blog and see what God has in store for Utah! :)
Check out this video of our first visit to Herriman in Summer 2012. It features other church planters working in here the valley explaining why this is such a wide open mission field.
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