God is so...

Hold that thought…
As I was thinking about what I was going to write this week I started going back through this blog to see how it all began.  My first official post was on June 21, which is exactly 6 months ago.  Just to see how far God has brought us in 6 months is unbelievable.  Here are just a few of the things that the Lord has helped us with:

• In June of 2018, we said goodbye to our friends and family and had our final service at Redland Church- so grateful for all they have done for us! 
• We finished the permitting process on our house in Homestead for the construction we began and were finally able to put the house on the market. 
• Renew Church became legal.  We received our 501c3 Non-Profit Status.
• PastorenMiami.net began.
• We launched our www.renew.miami website.
• We invited friends and family to partner with us financially to launch Renew Church.
• We began a speaking tour to share our vision with other churches and raise the needed money to make Renew Church become a reality.
• We received a contract on our home in 3 weeks and had closed within 45 days.   
• We found a new home and moved to West Kendall (the story behind that is a miracle!).
• I went to the GROW Conference in Alabama with my friend Steve Rhoades that ultimately led to me getting approved to launch our church with the ARC Church Planting Network (Association of Related Churches).
• We held our first Interest Gathering in our home to share the vision behind Renew Church. 
• We hosted approximately 9 more Interest Gatherings in our home and at local restaurants around West Kendall. 
• Misty and I went to Portland for the ARC Church Planter Intensive.  It was there that we committed to finding a larger venue (despite the added costs) that would allow us to launch with a full kids ministry and a worship band.
• We finalized the location of our new home- Norma Butler Bossard Elementary in West Kendall!  (HUGE answer to prayer!)
• We purchased a trailer and contracted with a company in N.C. to help us with all the equipment needed to launch a church in a school.
• We watched as our group went from 17 launch team members, to 24, to 31 to what is now 49 Adults that have committed to make this a reality (5 of those team members joined us yesterday!!)  As I re-read this, I don’t want that to sound like it was easy.  There were many days when I would think to myself, “Is this going to happen?”  We have prayed that God would send the right people to help us launch the church and we truly believe that is what He is doing.  In fact, we would often sit with a person and share our vision with them over coffee and then leave them to pray for a few days to allow God to do His part.  It was in the “waiting” that confirmation so often came!       

 
God is so…. Good.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
 
Treavor and Misty Pound
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P.S.  Interested in being part of our Launch Team?  It’s not too late- we would love to have you help us make Renew Church a reality so send me an email and lets get together!