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Here is what a student had to say about her experience at our event last weekend ::
“I was on the beach retreat this past weekend and I wanted to let you know that God has come into my heart because of it. I have let things go that have been troubling me and I have let God into my heart to replace of those things. I learned this weekend that I need to stop trying to find fulfillment in other things. I have set an alarm on my phone for everyday to spend time with God and to write in the journal I got from you. I am now striving towards being a “first chair” Christian. Please pray for me that I continue to grow closer with God and that I seek fulfillment in Him. Thank you for ministering to me, it has changed me.”
Student Participant, Winter Beach Retreat 2011
The Abiding Journey process has changed my life. I entered into this challenging journey of discipleship discovery with a team of co-workers… but have emerged on the other side as a band of brothers, all of whom are committed to making disciples who abide, serve, and multiply.
Chad Hambrick has been a patient but persistent force in teaching and training our team in ways to elevate prayer, develop intimacy with our Father, train leaders, disciple others, impact our culture and develop creative and strategic evangelistic outreach opportunities in our church.
Personally, I feel like Chad and the Abiding Journey helped me to see discipleship not as another appointment or obligation on my calendar but a new way of living. Christ has called me to be His disciple and to make other disciples, and the Abiding Journey has helped realize my life mission and tangible steps and resources to assist me in becoming the disciple-maker God has created me to be.
I will abide in him, serve my church and the world, and multiply myself so that others will find Christ in the Abiding Journey.
This one-year commitment to deep spiritual growth has changed my life, and it can change yours, too.
Trey Bailey
http://www.treybailey.net
Thank you for being a faithful Ministry Team Member!
I thank God for your faithful friendship, prayer support, encouragement and financial investment into this great commission ministry.
www.theabidingjourney.com
After launching three churches, and working with numerous church plants, I understand that church starters hit a wall of weariness at the end of the second year. It’s a dangerous time for that leader and he needs to refocus.
By the fall of 2008 I had launched my third church. The ministry field was difficult and by late summer of 2009 I needed help. I began to pray and God brought Chad Hambrick to my church as a consultant with “the abiding journey” in December.
Chad began with weekly meetings in which he listened to me and encouraged me to refocus on abiding, serving and multiplying. He guided me on my spiritual journey and to rethink my philosophy of ministry. He connected people and resources from his network to a new church with limited funds and directed some of our events and activities. I took his advice and his assignments seriously and implemented his suggestions on a weekly basis.
It’s now summer of 2010 and we’re experiencing fruit from the refocus. We’re on track to make disciples that will operate from the overflow and not their reserve. Chad didn’t change my church, he helped me return to my first love while planting a church in a difficult place.
Sincerely,
Terry L. Little
Jersey Community Church