Church Plants - Austin

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

Our journey continues to be very challenging, but we continue to learn what it means to trust the Lord to build His church little by little.

Since our last letter we did a Christmas brunch for neighborhood ladies, and three ladies came, had a great time and heard the gospel. Josh has continued to go door to door in Kyle. He has probably gone to about 500 homes now, where he has had about 100 conversations with people about the church we are starting. In December he went back to about 50 of the houses in our neighborhood and delivered invitations to our church along with homemade cookies that Kelly had baked from scratch. We now have three families coming to our house for church on Sunday nights. Prior to coming to our house for church, these three couples were unchurched.

We told you about the first couple that has been coming in our last letter. This was also the couple that I shared about at the Miracle Banquet in November. The wife of this couple was one of the women who came to the Christmas brunch. Right before Christmas this couple decided to follow Jesus, and the goal is for them to be baptized this month. Praise the Lord!!! Two other couples are now coming to our church as well. Both wives of these two couples know the Lord, but the husbands do not. They both acknowledge that they are searching, but they are not ready to surrender control of their life to Christ. We are praying that both men would surrender their life to Christ. One of these couples recently had their second child, and we have enjoyed getting to care for them as a church family. Our family, along with the other two families, have brought them meals during this time, and we have brought them diapers as well.

We are so thankful for what the Lord is doing in us and through us as He grows His church. We are currently studying the Gospel of Mark on Sunday nights, and we have many things on the horizon as well. Josh will continue to go door to door, and we are attempting to do three outreach events by Easter. We continue to attend the School of Church Planting at Hope in the City Church, and we had a big training conference in Waco this past weekend. We are praising the Lord for what He is doing in Kyle, TX!