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Our History
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The church
was birthed in Pastor George's heart in 1978 when Herschell Rosser, Sr. Pastor
at Church in the City (now the Houston Vineyard), laid out a vision for planting
churches all around Houston. He knew he wanted to be a part of that instantly.
George served the church as a leader and staff person for 15 years and in
May of 1992 he was given the green light to start planning for a church plant.
He asked Bill and Gail Everett to help and we started meeting with Bert Waggoner
the Sr. Pastor at this time. We went through the stages of church planting
and developed a vision. In October of 1992, right after Georges' mom died,
we started gathering people. . In January of 1993 we held our first interest
meeting and began meeting monthly on Sunday nights.
We held our first Sunday
morning meeting June 6, 1993 at the Memorial Northwest Club. Our vision was
to plant a church in the Spring area that worshiped Jesus passionately, would
win many people to the Lord and be a sending church that planted other churches.
We had a core group of 27 to start and by September we had 95 attending regularly.
Our church was blessed with a large financial gift and we were able to add
Bill Everett as our Youth Pastor that October to our burgeoning staff that
included Charlcie Phifer as our Director of Worship. In January of 1994 we
incorporated with 117 people. The church continued to grow and we added Richard
Wyatt as our children’s pastor at the end of May.
Starting in September of 1994 we moved to a storefront on FM
2920 and had our first baptisms. Dr. Randall Pannell came on staff as part-time
Associate Pastor, becoming full time in January of that year. We continued
to grow and in August of 1997 we released Bill and Gail Everett to begin
a church plant in the Katy area in 1998. On June 14 a number of us went to
Torreon Mexico to lead a healing conference and begin the process of planting
a church there. In 2001 we released Raymond and Teresa McDonald to church
plant in Conroe Texas. Then in May of 2005 we released Mark and Tamara Mulvahill
to church plant in Shermann Texas. Along the way there were many changes.
Randall Pannell went to teach at Regent University in Virginia and Richard
Wyatt went to pastor a church in El Paso Texas.
Currently God has added Randy Whittemore as our Student Ministries
Pastor. Our part-time staff are: Terry Bolt, Associate Pastor, Charlcie Phifer,
Worship and Creative Arts Director and Becky Krejci as our Children’s Minister.
We have been a sending church, raising up many leaders, baptizing many people
and it is our intention to continue to do this as God gives the increase.
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