To our community of servers,

It’s been a crazy year. So much has happened since our launch Sunday! Denise and I saw the obvious obstacles in planting a new church: logistics, facilities, and finances just to name a few. But looking back we can clearly see how God’s hands have molded us as a new community of bellievers. The steps of faith taken by this congregation have simply amazed us, and we praise God for each of you.  We are genuinely thankful for your faith, lived out in acts of service throughout the community, our state, nation and to the far corners of our world.

While the plan for a church plant was being discussed, Denise and I attended a Church Starter’s Assessment Center in Kansas City. We felt God was leading us toward building a church where the focus was on serving others. We were told by our fellow church starters: “It’s a great idea, but it will never work….people don’t come to a church to serve others, they come to a church to be served…”

If that is traditional thinking, then we hungered to break the mold! You’ve heard us talk about transformation through service. Within this first year at The Point, we’ve seen it happen over and over again. As we launch into our second year, we will continue to strive to be an “externally focused church” and serve others in a variety of ways. Many of those opportunities are in our own community. Others stretch to international contexts. But wherever and however you serve, ministry happens. Invite someone to come alongside you and serve together. Then hang on. When God’s in charge, it may continue to be crazy, but the blessings will flow.

Allen and Denise Kjesbo