I honestly can’t believe how fast time has gone. It feels like it was just yesterday that 8 of us were sitting in a church nursery dreaming about a church that would one day reach thousands of people and reconnect them to Jesus. This Sunday marks our 2 year anniversary and those years have been an absolute blast! We have had front row seats to some of the most amazing things we could have only dreamt of seeing.
In January we made a decision in 2 weeks time to give away 3.5 weeks worth of offering. At that time it was equivalent to $5,000. We divided it up into different amounts, put it in envelopes and gave one to every person in the room. Their job was to give it away to someone that needed it then write their story down at livegenerous.org. It was a monumental day in the life of our church. I talked about giving that day and it was tense but when the flip came and we gave away almost every penny in our account, people left confused and excited that a church would do that! The generousity in our church sky rocketed the week afterwards and it continued to right to present day. In fact, we had our highest giving Sunday in our short history a few weeks ago!
Our UnderCurrents have seen a new system implemented that will allow us to see many more undercurrents launched in the years to come. We started off just trying to get a few off of the ground and we did. We just didn’t have a way to make them grow exponentially. We believe that we have created something that is going to be amazing, not only in 5 years, but starting this next year. Some of the stories that are being told in this present semester are unbelievable and lives are being changed.
We have seen our Core Team grow by leaps and bounds as well. These are the people that serve week in and week out and believe so strongly in the mission of TXC that they are willing to sacrifice time, resources and lots of sweat to make it become a reality. We have bi-monthly gatherings called All Access where we eat good food and have a good time. Here’s a few photos from past gatherings. This last All Access we had so many people out that we are thinking it’s almost time to find a new venue to meet in.
Quicken was in July and it was our first beach baptism party. It was a huge success as we had over 100 people gather at Rolley lake where we baptized 10 people. The stories of the people ranged from young teens committing their whole lives to Jesus to young adults making decisions for the first time to follow Jesus. And these were just the stories of the people that were willing to share them with us. See some of the pictures here and here’s the video we made, showed in church the next day and gave to each of the people getting baptized.
This October we launched a series called HOSTAGE that we had been planning for 9 months. We did as best as we possibly could with the resources that we had. Combo’d with God moving in ways that only he can, we were absolutely blown away by what happened. The last week of the series we saw 216 people gather together. I personally experienced some of the stories of people choosing to leave the cage and stop being held hostage by numerous things. We had a live hostage inside the cage for 5 weeks in a row and during the last week we set him free. Here’s a few of the photos taken and videos that we made during the series
All in all, it has been a whirlwind of a ride and we have been changed in the process. I honestly believed that TXC was what God was calling me to plant when God showed me the dream. But I know who I really am and while I never doubted God, I doubted my abilites. And the beautiful things is that my abilities have not been what has made TXC. It’s been a combo of having a great lead team that is very cohesive and passionate about what God has called us to and amazing people in our church that are willing to do whatever it takes to reconnect people to Jesus.
We are getting so excited for the coming year! We’ve got a few things planned that are right around the corner, another massive series just before easter and then we’ve got a few opportunities to partner with other parts of the world that will enable us to do some amazing things for people who don’t yet know Jesus. If you haven’t figured it out yet, we are passionate about this thing we call following Jesus. Welcome to the journey!
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