When I told him weвЂ™d just studied Westford, he said, вЂњInteresting. Monica and I attended a church planting conference that next spring and met Ron. Ron Hamilton was praying God would use this church to rebirth a new church in a suburban New England community that needs Jesus. ThatвЂ™s Mary Ethier.ДЄcross the country in Minnesota the Conference Minister of a small denomination called the CCCC, the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, was praying for one of their smallest churches, a church with around five people left in it called Westford Bible Church. She didnвЂ™t know it but God was preparing her to help start the church again. Another woman was attending a Bible study at this church, Westford Bible Church. A mom who lived right down the street was praying for this church when they drove by, asking God to revitalize it. Then we got married and went back to school.ДЄnd that was itвЂ¦ Except God was working in other places. We presented our findings to the Immanuel elders at their summer retreat. We interviewed local Westford residents and at the end of the summer we wrote our church-plant proposals. We drove right down Graniteville Rd., but missed this church building. Later that summer we drove around Westford looking at yards and houses and businesses. He was pastor in Chelmsford, but lived in Westford, and asked us to study Westford.

So we asked MonicaвЂ™s mentor, Pastor Dana Smith, if he might have a suggestion of a community we should study. We had no intention of planting a new church, but if we were going to do the research, we wanted it to make a difference. Our big assignment was to study a real community, with real needs, and create a church-plant proposal. Another group came up with a church called вЂњNurch ChurchвЂќ which was supposed to be really loving and caring. Nothing like a psalm of lament to stretch your thighs. One of our outreach ideas was to host outdoor yoga sessions to readings of the Psalms. Our little group brainstormed what it would be like to plant a church in Salem. All that week we learned what it meant to start a new church. God was just moving us where he wanted us.

WeвЂ™d signed up because weвЂ™d heard the Discipleship & Evangelism class was terrible, and weвЂ™d heard this one was much better. That class was called Church Planting and Growth. On a Monday morning in late May 2012, Monica and I walked into a class at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and sat down, not knowing that God was going to change our lives. Do you ever just want to say вЂњthank youвЂќ? Or as my son likes to say, вЂњThank you, thank you, thank you!вЂќ Today I want us to direct our hearts to the heavens and say, вЂњThank you! Thank you Father for what you have done for us! Thank you for what you have done for us and our families and our church!вЂќ

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