What’s Happening with Coastal

God is up to Greater Things in Ft. Lauderdale.  I am so excited about what God has been doing for Coastal Community Church.  This past week we were donated 1800 square feet of office space.  On Saturday some of the launch team got together and painted the entire office and then on Sunday afternoon we went and deep cleaned the entire space.  On Monday we went to Ft. Myers to pick up some desks and chairs for the offices that were donated to us.  Now all we have left is to get a couple of couches, chairs, and tables to complete the space.  It is going to be a great place for us to do small groups, hang out, coordinate our outreach events and have our launch team meetings.

I had the opportunity this past week to speak to quite a few individuals about Coastal Community Church.  I was invited to a party by our worship leader who had tons of people interested in becoming part of our launch team.  It was great to share with them how we are a church IN and FOR our community.  That means that we are here to serve and love our community first and that by doing that, they would see Jesus.  People are getting excited about what is about to happen.  We also did an outreach to our local police station on Thursday morning where we brought them donuts and bagels for breakfast.  They were blown away by the fact that we wanted to thank and honor them for there service to the community.  I later got an email from the chief thanking us making the morning shift change such a big hit.

Starting on Thursday June 25th we are beginning our initial launch team meetings.  It is going to be so great to get our team together and let them meet one another.  We are going to be talking about the values of our church and how they will impact us and the community we live in for Christ.  I can’t wait to work with this incredible team to serve and love on our community, showing them Jesus through our random acts of kindness.

We are so excited about what God is doing here and would like for you to pray about being a part of Coastal Community Church.  For each one of us that can mean a different thing, so let me give you some ways to be a part of this with us.

1. You can pray for the church, launch team, and Shayla and I.
2. You can refer any friends that you have in the Ft. Lauderdale area to be a part of the church.
3. You can move to Ft. Lauderdale and be a part of this with us.
4. You can give financially to support the movement of planting a life giving church in Ft. Lauderdale.

Please take the time to see what part God is calling you to place in this adventure with us.