them. Share your journey toward and within faith. Ask them if they have any questions about their own faith, as often this is the case. Study those questions to see the differences between the LDS faith and historical Christianity. How does your congregation mobilize thousands of people for ministry? the way in which this is happening is through small groups. Groups exist in the marketplace and in communities and through that vehicle, people are realizing they are “ministers,” that is, those who meet the needs of others. All of our groups have a three-fold purpose: (1) Grow spiritu-
Merger discussions are delicate and you are best served by someone who can be an impartial guide to all. ally; (2) Care about each other; and (3) Serve together. You lead a multicampus church. What does the future look like in reaching a wider region? there are currently three campuses within the heights Community. A vision for multisite was born out of a deeply held belief that more churches were needed in our area.
Church planting is one good way to address that need. thankfully, many church planters have come to utah in recent years. We believed that our contribution to the effort to grow the church here existed in multiple campuses. We possessed the resources and the passion to move in this direction. Another contributing factor was the sad reality of churches closing their doors. With vision and resources provided we were convinced that struggling churches could experience a whole new chapter of effective ministry. in 2010 God led us to merge with a church in our own association 20 miles south of us. We also began another Spanish-speaking campus in downtown Ogden, 10 miles to the north of the original campus. We believe God will lead us to more sites in the future. Multisite ministry changes the way you think and do ministry. Don’t dabble in multisite as we need to be “all in.” it is also wise to walk through the merger experience with a consultant. Merger discussions are delicate and you are best served by someone who can be an impartial guide to all. I understand you want to run the boston Marathon. How close are you to being ready to do so? My qualifying time for Boston is sub 3:25:00. this past May i ran the Ogden Marathon in 3:26:16, so i missed qualifying by less than 2 minutes.
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