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Eastgate celebrates 32 years!

January 26, 2024 | anniversary, celebration, church, church growth, church planting, thankful

Happy 32nd Anniversary Eastgate Church! Over 32 years ago, on Sunday, November 17, 1991, we held an organizational meeting in our home to discuss the idea of planting a church. We invited around 40 people to attend. Fifteen people came. At the end of the meeting, I handed out index cards asking those present to express their

How would it look to be part of a church-planting movement?

September 22, 2017 | church planting, church planting movement, CPM, holy spirit, movement

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” — Jesus Christ, Acts 1:8 (ESV) “My ambition has always been to preach the Good News where the name of Christ

Praising God for a spiritual legacy

August 19, 2008 | church planting, grandfather, legacy, preacher, willow branch baptist church

I was privileged to present a plaque to Willow Branch Baptist Church this past Sunday on behalf of my family. The little church, nestled in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, is framed by a creek on one side and a gravel road on the other. Traveling out to the church is to experience a kind of

What Jesus builds when we have faith

August 14, 2008 | baptism, church, church planting, faith, legacy

“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter,

Visiting one of our partners

April 7, 2008 | church planting, portable church

“I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until