Remembering the Beginning

I am with John and Luke Bolin this week filming some videos for the upcoming ARC conference in Birmingham, Alabama. Yesterday, April 1st, Greg Surratt and I sat and reminisced about how ARC began. It was wonderful to recollect all the bits and pieces that brought a church planting movement into existence. It made me realize just how much God was bringing us together in a sovereign way. Greg is a joy to work with in this vision even though he is not from Louisiana.

In those early days God brought Dino Rizzo, my brother Scott, Rick Bezet, and Chris Hodges together with Greg and I to ask, “What if?” Now, “what if” has become “what now?” After 59 new church plants and the possibility of 30 this year, we are asking God for His direction for the future. We still believe that we will plant 2000 churches by 2020 and that ARC churches will have a huge impact on world missions. So, pray with us and believe with us for the great things that God wants to do through ARC. I also want to thank the ARC Leam Team for all that they do to make church planting on this scale a reality. Thanks to:

• Stovall Weems
• Rob Ketterling
• Matt Fry
• Randy Bezet
• Rick Bezet
• Scott Hornsby
• Chris Hodges
• Greg Surratt
• Dino Rizzo
• John Sibeling
• Joe Champion