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!