Surprise

Impact Cowboy Church of Nacogdoches

Surprise, I have interesting news to share with you. After months of planning and trying to conceptualize the church I am going to start has some what changed into something a little different than I originally planned for, but it is awesome to watch God shape and mold something to bring about his plan to being reality. I started meet with people in Nacogdoches about starting our church and things started coming evident pretty quick. First I had always planned on having a church that was in the country side of life. For instance I was thinking about having praise and worship with the country and western sound and I had thought about rustic design for the church, but what everybody really wanted in the town was a Cowboy Church. The more I started thinking about it the more I started to see that they already have enough "church" on every corner but you usually want see many cowboys there because it is too much for them. They want a place where they belong and can feel like they can contribute with their unique gifts that are not in much demand at a normal church. At a cowboy church if you can rope you can easily lead someone to Jesus.

In Nacogdoches we have a coffee shop called Java Jacks and trust me they have some awesome coffee in you are ever in town they are better than Starbucks, but any how on their sign out front it says "Down the street from ordinary". Well that got me thinking and I had to ask my self did I really want to do something for God or did I just want to do something? I know that I want to do something for God! The closest Cowboy Church around is about thirty miles away. This way I am not trying to edge in on somebodies so called turf or their corner of the Kingdom.

Most Cowboy churches are usually Baptist and in fact it has become one of the fastest growing church planting concepts that they have, but I am not Baptist I consider myself practically Charismatic. I came across a church that changed my life called The Vine Fellowship and a Pastor named David Kerr who believed enough in me to allow me to serve with him. I have always been different than most people at our church but that was how God has made me and I love the fact that I grew up on farms and ranched for a time of my life and that I like hunting and have a passion for sharing it with others so they can learn to enjoy God's creation for themselves. I have been studying 1 Corinthians and in chapter 12 it talks about the Body of Christ, well although I am doing something just a Little different I am still in the same Body and I think that is the awesome ways of God how he uses different people to do the same work but yet in a different way.

A friend of mine named Rob is always excited in showing people how to discover and use their spiritual gifts. Well I am getting excited about the same thing except I am going to a different type of people.

I will keep you informed as I get information.

Blessings,

Stan