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\"\"Without a chair, much less a building, to call their own, Church 8025 got its start in the Denver area with a loan of 30 chairs from a nearby church plant, Journey Point \u2013 part of a collection of many stories of God\u2019s provision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how we started \u2013 with nothing,\u201d says church planter Michael Talley, who moved with his wife, Dale, and several other families from Warner Robins to Denver. \u201cBut God blessed it, and we grew.\u201d<\/p>\n

Named after the number of the house where they first gathered, Church 8025 eventually moved to a local hotel\u2019s ballroom \u2013 and that was when the scramble for more portable church equipment began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re calling other churches and asking them things like, \u2018Hey, can we borrow some kids\u2019 play panels?\u2019\u201d Michael recalls, \u201cAnd a Send Network church plant, Storyline Church, gave us a couple of trailers with the portable cases on it because they didn’t need them anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks to God\u2019s provision and Storyline\u2019s generosity, Church 8025 witnessed lives transformed in that next year as their church grew to over one hundred people. However, the portable church equipment was not the last time God provided for Church 8025\u2019s needs through the generosity of other churches.<\/p>\n

Several months after the Talley\u2019s church plant began raising money for their own land, Michael received a call with the news that a church that was closing wanted to gift their building to a new church.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe building was in the area where we were looking for land, literally a mile down the road,\u201d Michael says. \u201cAs a church planter, you say yes, sight unseen.\u201d<\/p>\n

But chairs, trailers and a building are not the most important things Church 8025 has inherited over the years \u2013 they\u2019ve also inherited a spirit of generosity. In the past three years, the church has given away about $140,000 to local ministry partners, the Cooperative Program and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.<\/a> In a full-circle kind of way, they\u2019ve now handed down the very trailers and cases they were once given to two other church planters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to build Church 8025. We\u2019re trying to advance God’s kingdom with Him and for Him and we just can’t be inwardly focused if we’re going to do that,\u201d says Michael. \u201cAnd our people have adopted that too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For this Colorado church plant, generosity extends beyond giving money or items \u2013 the church has sent out a church planter and two key volunteers with them to plant in a nearby neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s hard when you’re a new church,\u201d Michael admits, \u201cbut I believe they\u2019re not my people. They\u2019re God\u2019s people, and I have to trust that God knows best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Church 8025\u2019s culture of generosity spills into their homes, too, through which nearly 85% of their first-time guests come before attending a Sunday service. Thanks to this model, the church has grown to more than 200 people and has witnessed 28 people come to Christ and follow in believer\u2019s baptism \u2013 people like Kailey and her husband Dave.<\/p>\n

Courtney, a member of Church 8025, shared the gospel with Kailey, who came to Christ and then started witnessing to her husband Dave, who also became a Christian. Since Courtney had never been baptized, the three all followed in believer\u2019s baptism on the same Sunday. After the baptism service, Dave\u2019s two best friends, Nick and Ben, who also came to Christ through Church 8025, expressed their desire to be baptized as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod is so good,\u201d Michael says. \u201cIf we\u2019ll just get out of the way and let Him build His church, God will bring people and lead people to Him.\u201d<\/p>\n

To discover how your church can step into generosity by supporting church planters across North America, or to determine more steps your church can take to join in God\u2019s activity of expanding His kingdom in cities and nations all around the world, visit SentNetwork.com\/Mobilize<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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