What will God do next?

Welcome back, Texas and all of our supporters and prayer warriors around the globe! We have reason to celebrate! This Sunday, Lifestone Church Herriman, Utah will baptize our first new believer!! (I promise to have some pics for you in my next post!) We are so thankful for this amazing opportunity to celebrate God's work here and also to testify to everyone present the amazing change that Jesus can bring to a life surrendered to Him!


Join us in praying that Lifestone- through God's power and for God's glory- will end 2014 with:

• an average of 100 people present at Sunday's services
• 10 new believers baptized
• 5 healthy Lifegroups (small groups)

To those of you who live in the Bible Belt, these numbers may look low. Remember that in the context we are living in, these are incredibly God-sized expectations and that this kind of growth is unheard of here. Our God is capable of much, so please pray!!!

Check out this powerful verse on Biblical expectancy...

"Yet I am confident I will see the Lord's goodness while I am here in the land of the living! "

Psalm 27:13 (NLT)

This is the Aquatics Center that we will use for baptisms at the Rec Center
 where we meet on Sundays. We joked about having people go down
the big blue slide as a method of immersion! ;)

A Little Love Goes A Long Way

We are only about 7 weeks into the new year, and already so many exciting things are happening here! If you are new to Texas Loves Utah, welcome, and thank you for choosing to follow along and pray along on this exciting adventure! We are a team of Texans who have relocated and planted the first ever Bible-teaching church in the beautiful city of Herriman, Utah. Our team of 11 has now grown into almost 40 regular attenders, with high attendance Sundays reaching almost 50. We are in awe of what God has started here in a city that is considered less than 1% reached for Jesus!



One of the initial challenges of planting a brand new church was simply creating awareness of our new church's existence. Through an article in a local newspaper, handing out invite cards and Christmas CDs, and simple word of mouth invites, we feel we have a pretty good start in making our presence known. We are really excited about our newest form of outreach, a new program called Lovestrong, whose purpose will be "to love our community one school at a time". Through Lovestrong, we will encourage teachers through events such as catered luncheons and provide school supplies, meals, and clothing for students in need. Lovestrong will serve to show God's love through us to the people of Herriman and hopefully work as a PR boost at the same time!  This past week, we kicked off Lovestrong with a luncheon for 60 faculty and staff at a local elementary school. We catered lunch and even pampered the teachers with a chocolate fountain. The response was amazing. Some teachers were even in tears as they thanked us for loving them in this way, and we were able to answer many questions about "the new church at the Rec Center"!

Check out these pics of what was an 
extremely successful outreach event!