February 2, 2012
Hey Suncrest,
We fully announced our big news on Sunday. I’ve said this in lots of settings by now, but it is worth saying one more time. Announcing that Doug Gamble and Jared Mehrle will be leaving our staff to go plant churches is both personally hard and perfectly aligned with our mission all at the same time. These guys have been on our team for 7 years. They have been key to us being one church in four locations. They are good friends to me (and many of you) and they have been great entrepreneurial leaders as they launched the Hobart and Highland campuses for us.
Doug and his family will re-locate to the Oklahoma City area in April. Jared and his family will move to the Atlanta area in June. And our commitment is to be the best “sending church” two church planters have ever seen. In a lot of ways this brings our church planting vision full circle – from just sending money, to sending money and giving some leadership oversight, to actually sending out people from our church to be church planters. Isn’t that kind of incredible? Pray for Doug, Jared, and our church as we all follow God’s lead through this next season.
A quick note from Sunday: I always love our money series. We usually spend a few weeks on it at this time of year. The message from Sunday about living against the trends of a “debt culture” is one I have seen unlock freedom and peace in people’s lives. And our church wants to help you overcome your circumstances as practically as we can.
So, if you have a sense that now is the time to make a change in your financial habits, I hope you will sign up for Financial Peace University – available at 3 of our 4 campuses. It’s a 13 week course we have offered over the last few years and we have seen it literally change dozens of lives – financially and otherwise. Go for it right now by emailing robin.mchugh@suncrest.org to get more info or to sign up.
Thanks for reading.
Greg