Saturday, August 6, 2016

Summer 2016: Part 1

WELCOME BACK TO TEXAS LOVES UTAH!
Monday, August 1st marked 3 years since our team packed up our lives and moved from Weatherford, TX here to Herriman, UT to plant a Bible-teaching church in the largest U.S. city without one! 

God has been so faithful to bless our new church plant and to grow a healthy church family. It's crazy to think that 3 short years ago, we were inviting our friends and neighbors to join us for worship in the basement of our pastor's home. What a privilege it has been to see 50+ come to know Jesus as Lord and many, many families join in our efforts to see this valley reached for the Kingdom!



KID'S LIFE CAMP 2016
Kid's Life Camp (aka VBS) was a HUGE success! It was awesome to see the people of Lifestone Church come together to put on this amazing outreach event for our community! You'll notice in the following video that we had TONS of teenagers helping out! A BIG shoutout to FBC Powell, Tennessee who sent a mission team of 32 students and adults to serve at Lifestone's Kid's Life Camp-We couldn't have done it without you!!

Please join us in thanking God for this opportunity to tell 62 1st-5th graders about God's love for them! Our big event culminated at what we called "The After Party" where we invited participants' families to our Sunday morning service to watch as campers shared the songs and dances they learned during the week. After the service, everyone was invited outside for a BBQ picnic, bounce houses & snow cones. This party was an awesome opportunity to welcome several new families to worship and fellowship with us at Lifestone on a Sunday morning!








NEW FACILITY RENOVATION
We are in awe, to say the least, at how quickly God has provided us a church home. As you read in the last post, we have been GIVEN a 1.3 million dollar property including a building structure just 4 miles down the road from our current meeting location, HIGHLY visible, and on a very well-traveled street. Over the past 9 weeks, volunteers have been selflessly giving of their time and efforts to tear down and re-build virtually every existing wall in order to maximize the space we have. The new layout will offer us an expanded lobby, worship area, and children's areas for both elementary and preschool/nursery.

We kicked off construction with a 
church-wide demo day!







Soon after, new walls were going up!




Remember that group from Tennessee? 
They spent a couple afternoons 
working at our building as well! 


A little landscaping action!
Thank you again, FBC Powell!

Please pray that God continues to provide the financial resources and workers needed to reach our project completion goal of late September. If you feel called to give toward our project goal of 10k, please do so below.

Please notate that you are giving toward this specific project by adding .10 to the amount. Gifts are tax-deductible. Thank you for giving!


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