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This past weekend, most of the second and third years of Twenty-Four Seven, including myself, had the amazing opportunity to help launch a new ARC (Association of Related Churches) church. Because so many students have an interest in church planting and love serving, staff decided to take the cadre up north by a couple of hours for a few days. During our time there we helped promote the church’s first service by mostly handing out fliers everywhere and talking with people.

Besides the radio announcements and mail announcements provided by ARC, we put hundreds of door-hanger invitations on home doors, passed out thousands of fliers in shopping areas and at college campuses, and put many invitations on car windshields. Many people to whom we talked had heard about Action already and couldn’t wait to attend. One of my cousins and his wife also looked forward to helping with childcare at the church; I loved seeing them and a mutual cousin with them. Saturday night before the first service on the 26^th, we got to help clean up the school where the church holds its service by washing windows, weeding tree beds, and picking up trash around the campus. Then the morning of the launch we all set up different areas of the church and served in various ministries at the church. I had so much fun playing with kids, leading them in worship, and discussing the Bible lesson with them!

Although Action had a bigger launch than most church plants probably have, I enjoyed seeing the small beginnings of something God will use to do great things in that area and around the world. Many of the staff and launch team also came from Twenty-Four Seven, so learning about the opportunities that alumni can have was cool too. Pastor Justin Dailey, the former Twenty-Four Seven director and current lead pastor of Action, has a great attitude about how God builds the church instead of him, and he trusts God throughout the birthing and development of the church. This mindset helped him to have such a successful launch with nearly 700 attendees at the very first service. God opened doors, provided funding, and helped him build a great lead team; He will continue to help His church all over the world too.