There have been some great things happening this summer at CityChurch.  I wanted to share with you a few of those things.

1. LOVE TULSA - Our Love Tulsa initiative is taking off. In fact, it's beginning to take us places we never dreamed.  We have began the process of partnering with churches from all over the city to make LOVE TULSA a citywide initiative of churches working together on common issues (i.e. addiction recovery, foster family care, public education, social justice issues, etc.)  This has been spearheaded by a new addition to the CityChurch team, our new Love Tulsa director Mollie Myers. She's a superstar & we're blessed to have her.

2. New Believer Coaches - Several months ago we began to evaluate how well we were following up with new believers and we weren't satisfied at all.  In fact, the national average for most churches in the US is that 1 out of 10 new believers continues in the discipleship process and gets plugged into the church.  That is an absolutely horrendous stat!  We've taken a big step recently and began a process of training 25-30 new believer coaches.  When an individual now commits or recommits their life to Christ they will now receive a trained life coach who will walk with them on a 4-week journey where they will explore their story, God's story, and how to begin an authentic walk with Christ.  So far, it's been amazing.  We'll see how it goes.

3. The Future: This summer has been a season of refining the processes and structures at CityChurch.  We've tried to take every ministry to the next level.  This includes increased security in cityKIDS, a new process for volunteers, restructuring our entire Connect Team, more Community Groups, etc, etc.  We're preparing for big things coming up.  This fall we are gearing up for some game changers like unveiling our new Mission Partners initiative & our first ever LOVE TULSA Sunday on October 2nd that's going to be absolutely HUGE!

Please pray for us that God will continue to lead and that we will continue to take the gospel to our city!

Also, if you missed this last week of our new series, Confessions of a Pastor, Pastor Jim shared his story over the past year.  It was incredible!  The Holy Spirit moved in a powerful way in peoples lives as they were healed of some very deep pains.  Click here to watch the video!