Church Plants - Austin

Josh Proctor, Pastor of Austin area church plant, sent us this update:

These last few weeks have been very challenging. On October 31st we had a Halloween outreach at our house and we had 70 to 80 people come. We started the group in our house on November 11th, and we have had one family come three weeks in a row. It has been hard only having had one family come thus far but this family who is coming is unchurched and does not know Jesus. It is exciting for us to share the truth of Jesus with this family. At our outreach event in November we had a different couple attend. This was also hard but the couple that came is unchurched and does not know Jesus either. Kelly is doing outreach for the ladies of the neighborhood on December 9th, and the wife of this couple has indicated that she is going to come. We are excited about what God is doing. We wanted to share some insights the Lord has given us. Josh had a professor in seminary who described being a Christian leader like this:

“You must do what you cannot do with what you do not have, but God will do what He can do with what you do have through you.” – Bill Lawrence

This pretty much describes how we feel right now. We cannot do this task to whcih God has called us- but we know that He can do it through us. We know that God promised the Israelites that they would inherit the Promised Land and that they would go in and drive out the nations who were in the land. In Deuteronomy 7:21-22, Moses says this to the Israelites about those nations they will drive out:

“Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once.”

We believe God is telling us that He will launch this church in Kyle through us and that He will do it little by little. The pastor of Hope in the City has told us that he believes we are doing a great job and are ahead of where he thought we would be at this point. Like Galatians 6 tells us, we do not want to grow weary in doing good, and we believe that the harvest will come in the proper time, His time.