from 3 sites to 8

I have a confession to make. I've been hiding some progress that God has given us. It just got easier not to talk about it for awhile, because I am tired of being told that I'm crazy, that is cannot be done, and that it will destroy me or destroy this church.

But I gotta give God proper credit for something He did and is doing.

This past Easter was a little disappointing in that I thought we would hit 2000 for the first time, in all of our sites and services. We didn't quite make it. We only got 1841. Which is wonderful and even incredible, but not quite what we had set our hearts on!

But there is another story that is also important to glorify God for. In the past 6 months, we have quietly gone from being a church of 3 sites (Red Lion, York Road Gettysburg, and South Hanover). to being a church of 8 sites! And there are more on the way!

So we are struggling with new benchmarks and new ways to delineate growth and be good shepherds of the flock God has given us. The God who put the book of Numbers in His Bible, obviously cares about these things so we should too. And this Easter, we are setting for ourselves new benchmarks for each of the sites and services. 1841 people in 8 sites.

Those sites now are York Road-1287, South Hanover-73, Red Lion-105, The Intersection-68, Tulsa-45, YW-23, House of our Messiah-40, Bedford-200-total 1841. Another important benchmark- 1631 are committed to being part of a small group!