New Church's First Service

So Rosario launched the new church's first service. It's called Embrace United Methodist Church. The goal is to embrace God and others.

The church meets in the Kentucky Theatre on Main Street in Lexington.

150 people showed up for the first service.

We are going to keep supporting the church with prayers, people, and resources, looking forward to the day Rosario starts a new church from the new church.

Rosario has been through a lot to get to this point. We prayed a lot, planned a lot, suffered a lot, screwed up a lot, were right a lot, too. But I guess the key piece of success is Rosario. He is an uncommon leader for the church. That is, he did not show up and think he needed to be the boss. He started by cleaning toilets in the church.

So he knows church from the bottom up. You have to be willing to be on the bottom, to start unnoticed. It's not a gimmick, a rung on the ladder, it's an attitude. A part of leadership that at one time rolls up the sleeves but also says that the work of the church is too important to be passive.

I have a link to his blog over there on the right. Check him out. And pray that the Lord grants us success. Hopefully this is but the beginning of church planting for us. We have a new bishop who planted 98 churches in 12 years in Georgia. It may be that we are primed to see revival in Lexington and Lentucky!