Teaching Kids To Give Back...

We encourage our grow groups at Christ's Church to do service projects. The kids grow group has taken on the project of collecting school supply donations to help needy kids in Johnson County. With the help of two of our teenagers who work with the elementary kids each week, they made this video. Looks like they had fun making it.

Your prayers and support are bearing fruit to the glory of God.

It was a special blessing for me to see 15 year old A.J. baptize his friend named Ian into Christ. A.J. has been working on Ian for a while. He brought him to church, took him to grow group and Ian gave his life to Jesus Christ. After talking with me about how to obey the Gospel at the coffee shop for a hour or so, Ian decided he was ready and asked A.J. to do the honors.

Christ's Church mission is to lead people to Know Christ, Grow in Christ and Show Christ. I am thankful to see A.J. and dozens of others doing just that.

Please keep Christ's Church and Frontier Ministry Group in your prayers. Without your prayers and support, we can't fulfill the mission God has given us. You are our partners in this important work.

The Foundational Truths of Our Faith.

Like a building, faith is only a solid as it's foundation.

But what are the foundational teachings of Christianity upon which the Christians should be unified? The Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 4: 4-8 “Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit— just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

Join us at Christ's Church each Sunday this summer as we cover each week another foundational truth of Christianity. Every first time guest will receive a free book entitled THE CASE FOR CHRIST. Join us this Sunday at 10:30 AM at Entrance #54 at Franklin Community High School.

Praise God for each success!

We showed this video at the beginning of Church on Sunday.



Donna and her husband Todd were looking for a church that not only taught the Bible but where they could serve. As they were driving down US 31 they saw a sign advertising the services held by Christ's Church each Sunday morning at the Franklin Community High School. So they checked it out. After attending Christ's Church for several weeks, they brought Donna's nephew Rich and his fiancee Emily to church with them. When we sat down and talked with Rich and Emily about their relationship with God, Rich discovered that he needed to be baptized to obey the gospel. He believed but had never made a personal commitment to Christ. It was our joy to baptize him last Friday night for the forgiveness of sins and gift of the Holy Spirit.

These lives changed by the gospel and the growth of our church are the result of God's blessing upon the prayers and support of people like you. THANK YOU! Together we are making an eternal difference in lives.

Spiritual Growth the Acts 2:42 Way.

Acts 2:32 says the early christians were devoted to the Apostles doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer. We see this played out in the book of Acts. How different that is from most churches today.

The average Christian today gets up and goes to church on Sunday morning. Sure they break bead in communion with people they don't really know, listen (maybe) to most of a sermon, listen to someone else pray a quick prayer, and say a quick hello to a few other members going in an out of church who they don't contact the rest of the week. Most believers are not living out Acts 2:42.

Frontier Ministry Group wants to help share a vision to inspire churches to plant churches that follow the Acts 2:32 method. That is why we have developed the TAKE THE 90 DAYS WITH JESUS program. It gives each person a 90 day devotional to create a devotion to the apostles doctrine. It provides lesson guides for small home Bible studies. And this week I am recording video lessons to go with those small group guides.

Keep me in your prayers as I try to create tools that will enhance devotion to apostles doctrine, fellowship, and prayer in small home Bible studies. We need to become ACTS 2:24 christians and that happens in homes during the week. We need to be devoted to doing things the ACTS way.

Seeds planted = another baptism.

We want to thank those who support Frontier Ministry Group in planting Christ's Church in Franklin, Indiana. Your partnership in this ministry through gifts and prayers are making a difference!

Meet Ashley. She is a young lady who has been attending since invited by a boyfriend last summer. She has been regularly attending on Sunday morning and involved in one of our weekly Grow Groups. After hearing sermons and lessons on the Gospel, she realized her need to be baptized to accept Jesus Christ and pledge her life to Him in good conscience.

Ashley came forward Sunday morning to confess her faith and say she wanted to be baptized into Christ. Satan may keep attacking, things may be difficult, circumstances may seem like a hinderance, but God is not hindered from winning souls. He can't be chained, held back or stopped.

Thank God for using our new church to continually reach more people for the kingdom of Christ.

Calibrate: Align your life with the teachings of Jesus Christ

When you tune a guitar or piano, you calibrate it with a tuner. When the strings are tuned the instrument can be used to produce music of all kinds. But first you must calibrate it to standard tuning. Our lives need calibrated too. This month at Christ's Church we will study in scripture how to pray, fast and meditate to align our lives with our creator.

I want to invite any of the supporters of Frontier Ministry Group to come visit us some Sunday for our Communion Service in Franklin, Indiana. We would love for you to see first hand what God is doing at Christ's Church.

NOTICE OUR NEW PHONE NUMBER IS 317 903 5811

Another Soul Won! Sunday January 3rd

Meet Austin Green. He started attending our "game night" parties last summer. He has been a regular at Christ Church events for several months and started thinking about becoming a Christian at our student retreat in October. We are thankful he has decided to obey the command to be baptized into Christ for the forgiveness of sins and gift of the Holy Spirit.




Austin was baptized after church on Sunday January 3rd, 2010. His family and friend were there to witness his new birth into Christ.


As you can see the students who helped lead Austin to the Lord were there to celebrate afterward. This is one of the finest group of students I have ever been privileged to work with.

Thank you Frontier Ministry Group Supporters. Christ's Church would not exist or be able to continue in 2010 without your support. Keep us in your prayers!

Why Am I Here?

All this month at Christ's Church we are studying our purpose by answering the question: WHY AM I HERE. Please pray for us as remember our calling and refocus on God's will for our lives.

Be looking for some audio sermons on this topic at the Christ's Church website: www.knowgrowshow.com

If you would like more information about Frontier Ministry Group or would like to become a Frontier partner please call Kendall at 317 903 5811.

Now You Can Take the 90 Days With Jesus Challenge.

Now you too can

TAKE THE 90 DAYS WITH JESUS CHALLENGE!

The 90 Days with Jesus devotional will take you through the four Gospels in 90 days. You'll read one gospel chapter per day, learn some insights from history and scripture, and then it asks you a few challenging questions that help you discover how Jesus teaching applies to your life. In a mere 20 minutes per day, the teaching of Jesus will come alive in a transformational way. Another nice aspect of this devotional is it gives you a pertinent verse from the books of Proverbs or Psalms that fit with chapter at the bottom. Reading the teaching and life of Jesus will change your life. This book is perfect for personal daily devotions or as a small group study guide. This great resource for developing a daily devotional life is now available for your church or small group.

Click here to get your copy.

Pray For Our Grow Groups.

Genesis means beginning. A builder does not build a house from the roof down but rather from the foundation up. Genesis is a foundational book of the Bible which explains our origins, the nature of God and man, and the cause of death and suffering. If we do not understand Genesis we will miss the beauty of the Gospel. We hope to understand what Genesis teaches about who we are?

Pray for us as we study our way through Genesis and lay the foundation for a solid Biblical faith. Many have been surprised at the new things we are learning about creation, Adam and Eve, and Noah and the great flood. Please pray that God will send more to us to faithfully teach the Word of God to.

SUMMER 2009 UPDATE:

Kendall Faull & Sam Bitts dig a trench for the new water line.

In June, myself along with 12 others from Christ's Church went on a wonderful mission trip to New Orleans to help rebuild homes of those afflicted by Hurricane Katrina. It was a great week of service and ministry. It's amazing how such hard work, selflessness, and service can be so fun and such a joy when done for the Lord. I also enjoyed riding my motorcycle down to New Orleans on the Natchez Trace Parkway. That will be a wonderful memory I will always cherish. Serving God is always great... serving God on a motorcycle is even better. :)

Kendall's Triumph South of Nashville, TN on the Natchez Trace

When you support Christ's Church, you are helping us help the homeless.

This Summer Christ's Church partnered with Christian Contender Ministries to do a Summer Food Service Program for children in need. Many children on reduced or free lunches don't get a good lunch all summer. The sad reality is that parents often go off to work leaving kids at home without proper meals. To meet the need for innocent children who can't help what their parents do, we provided a warm lunch Monday through Friday for children at the churches rented office space. We showed Veggie Tale Videos and Bible stories and provided a free meal each week day. Next summer with better promotion, we believe it will be an even greater success. Here is a email I received from one of our volunteers for the program. As you can see, we are showing the grace of Jesus to those in need. Feeding hungry kids is pure religion.

Kendall - Had to stop and send you a quick e-mail, today at 12:45pm we decided to clean up and put the food away. We only had 2 show up for lunch and that was at 12:00 noon. They left at 12:15 and we twiddled our thumbs for 30 mins. So we cleaned up and at 12:50pm we had a family of 15, man wife and 13 children from 1 mo through 17 years old. Yes, TaNay, Melissa, Bryce and myself got some food out and cook them all a meal. They are from KY, sold their home this year and came to Franklin for work. The work has dried up and they are stuck in Franklin. They are living at the Johnson County Park, and she delivered the baby at home in the trailer. We invited them back tomorrow for pizza, I wish you could have seen their children's eyes when they heard what was for lunch tomorrow. They ARE coming back tomorrow! -Joe

When you support Christ's Church, you support us as we feed the hungry.

Kendall baptizing a student at Hillsboro Family Camp

Also this summer, my family and I were able to once again attend Hillsboro Family Camp. I had the privilege and honor of speaking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Night for the teens and Wednesday Night and Thursday Morning for the adults. There were 20 decisions made for Christ in the youth program alone. I personally witnessed 5 baptisms from the youth program and had the privilege of performing two of them (see picture above). I know others were baptized later that week or back at their home congregations. God really blessed our efforts. Click on the video below to see on of my messages from Hillsboro 2009 called, "Something Good!"

When you support Christ's Church, you are helping us to proclaim the gospel to the lost and encourage the saved.

This month, we will be launching new Grow Groups to study the book of Genesis. Please keep us in your prayers. All summer long our attendance at Christ's Church was down. We are getting new visitors regularly but summer has taken its toll. Attendance should go back up some with summer being over. Pray that we can faithfully preach the word and that God would send more laborers for the plentiful harvest. Pray we can fulfill God's will in our lives. Church planting is never easy and we need God's help. A big thank you to all of those who are helping us stay afloat financially. May God himself bless you for your generosity. Together, with God's help, something good is bound to happen.

Grace & Peace - Kendall Faull

You prayers and support bring this......

Jason and Amanda wanted to go to church but they didn't know where to go. So they prayed about it. The next day they received an answer to their prayers when the got a flier from Christ's Church in the mail. The came the very next Sunday. They have been coming ever since. 

From the sermons they realize they needed to learn more about baptism so they checked on the communication card in their bulletin that they would like to know more. After meeting with me last Wednesday night, they both realized they needed to be baptized for the forgiveness of sins and gift of the Holy Spirit like it says in Acts 2:38. They wanted to pledge their lives to God.  

This would be impossible without your support and prayers.  THANK YOU!

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

Take A Moment To Pray...

We are teaching some new prospects and hope to see some baptisms real soon. We started a new study through the book of Acts call THE WAY.  We launched our second round of grow groups.  But satan is always attacking and trying to discourage us. 

Please take a moment to pray each day for Frontier Ministry Group and our first Church plant. We need your prayers for God's grace and blessing on our efforts. Please take a moment right now and lift us up to the Father. 

Thank you.

Why Don't More Churches plant a church?

Remember this rhyme from when you were a kid? "Here's the church and heres the steeple and inside are all the people!" Kids would say this as they made a building and steeple with their hands and then flipped their hands over and wiggled their fingers for the people. 

Only one problem: THE BUILDING IS NOT THE CHURCH THE PEOPLE ARE THE CHURCH. 

It's been shown in multiple studies that church planting is the best bang for the buck when it comes to evangelism. Newer churches grow faster on average than older churches.  So when a church has maxed out it's space, why not plant a new church rather than build a bigger building?

We would win more souls per dollar church planting than building buildings.  Yet, I see more churches building bigger buildings than I see churches planting churches. Why? 

How is it churches have capital campaigns to raise millions for buildings but when was the last time you saw a giving campaign to raise millions for church planting and evangelism?

I notice people will give to make "their" building bigger and nicer.  But why will they not give to make the Kingdom of God bigger with a new church. 

Do they have pride that wants to brag about their building?  Is it selfishness that wants to have the most comfortable facility?  Is it preachers trying to build up a name for themselves by having a large church and don't want people, money and resources going to a new plant? Is it a lack of focus on winning the lost?  Is it that the church thinks more about its self than the outsiders who need to find Christ and escape Hell?

Is it that we focus on the physical not the spiritual? Are we today like the Jews in Jesus day who wanted him to be a physical king over a physical kingdom, rather than allowing the kingdom of God to be in the hearts of men?  Does our giving today go to building the kingdom in the hearts of men or does most of it go to buildings?

Who knows?  For some reason churches are building bigger buildings with gyms, play grounds, coffee shops, book stores, pre-schools, theater seating, huge screens, projectors and awesome sound systems.  But are we really changing the world? Are more Americans going to church now than 50 years ago since we have bigger buildings with gyms or are less going? Are we winning the lost like they did in the first century?  

How did those uneducated disciples do it without building huge buildings?  

What could we do if we just allocated our resources on sending out preachers and starting new churches rather than building massive costly buildings? I wonder. 

I do know this: I know 4 preachers right now (Godly men, sound in doctrine, soul winners) who would plant a church right now if they had the financial support and funding of a mother church. But most churches don't have a dime to spare nor do they even think about starting another congregation?  I wonder why? Where is their money going? 

If only every church would help plant a church.  We could start a revival in the hearts of men.  

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to our supporters!  You are helping to make an eternal difference in people's lives.  God is taking your gifts and prayers and using them for His work.

If you are not a supporter of Frontier Ministry Group, I challenge you or your church to become financial and prayer supporters. We need your help. God is doing good things through Christ's Church but I know we can do more with more help. You can play a role in helping us hire a 2nd full time minister and reach more people for Christ. 

If we could raise the money, we could plant a 2nd church. Has God provided you with the means to help financially in starting new churches?  We are praying for God to lead many people to help support this important work. 

The more farmers we have, the more seeds we can plant. The more seeds we can plant, the more harvest we can produce. Pray that God will provide the means for us to support more workers for the harvest of souls. 

Matthew 9:37-38 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."

Pray For Kendall & Danna's Housing

Foxes have their holes, the birds have their nests, but the son of George has no place to lay his head.  :)

Please pray for myself and my wife. Just two weeks after moving into the home we are now renting, we found  some previously unknown problems with the house that make it unsafe to live in without major renovation. So just now that we got settled in, we have to move out immediately and place all our things in storage and wait a month or more for the home to be refurbished before we can move back in. 

In the mean time, we are not sure where we will live the next month. This week my wife and kids are at the home of Danna's mom and dad while I am in Hillsboro, Ohio teaching at the preacher camp. We need to find a short term solution asap.

It's an exhausting thought once you have moved  all your stuff to realize you have to do it again two more times in next month. It's also not exciting to face the prospect of living with someone for a month and being a burden to them. Pray for us to have patience.

We have had an offer for us stay at a person's home for a month but hate to impose on people for whole month and also it's about 20 minutes away from the church. Ben Franklin said house guests are like fish, they stink after three days. We don't want to be a burden and also I don't want to put my family in an awkward situation. Moving is hard enough for kids but this added stress makes it difficult for kids to adjust.  

Please pray for us to find the place or means to stay some where closer to the church and the people we desire to minister too while the rental house is renovated. Also pray we find a cheap storage facility to store our things for month. Our renters insurance will not cover their displacement. 

Also please pray that this does not distract me too much from the work of the church and the evangelistic work that needs done. I presently have 3 more people who want to talk with me about being baptized and this is a frustrating distraction from my urgent work. 

Pray for me to keep my priorities straight and for God to bring good out of this annoying situation.  I am trying to keep this in perspective. Real problems are when you lose a loved one in death, or are jailed for your faith, or face a serious illness. My problems are small compared to others.  

I praise God for my wife Danna who has had an incredibly good attitude through this difficult move. Many wives would not handle all we have been through with such grace and poise. She faithfully supports my ministry and does not complain about all the difficulty we have faced in selling our house, moving and getting settled. May God bless her for her faithfulness, patience, and support. 

Please join us in our prayers for God to help us move forward at Christ's Church despite the distractions.  We need your prayers. 

Grace & Peace,

Kendall

Another Soul Saved Because Of What God Is Doing At Christ's Church!

Hey Everyone!

Look how your prayers and financial gifts are paying off!

Above is the video we showed at Christ's Church on Sunday Morning April 19th, 2009. Courtney was led to Christ by her husband, Chad. He was baptized just a few weeks before. Please join us in praising God for the good things he is doing. God is moving among us. 

But not only is God moving among us, Kendall & Danna are moving from Greentown to Johnson County.... Finally!!! Praise God for the kindness of Pat Stewart who is letting us rent her house for a while while we prayerfully consider a long term housing solution. 

Pray for us as we get moved and settled. Pray also for the needs of Christ's Church. We had dozens of visitors on Resurrection Sunday and hope to follow up with them. Pray I find the time. There is much to do between Frontier, Christ's Church and moving my family.

This week I talked with a young family who has come the past three weeks. He and his wife and been praying for God to guide them to a church to attend in the area. THE VERY NEXT DAY, THEY RECIEVED AN INVITATION TO ATTEND CHRIST'S CHURCH. Praise God for his providential guidance in allowing us to invite this family at the right moment.  When we focus on God's mission and align ourselves with his purpose, he uses us to answer people's prayers. What an honor to be apart of his plan.

Would you like to be a part of an effort to plant churches after the New Testament pattern? Please consider giving $100 a month to Frontier Ministry Group and please pray for us.

Grace & Peace,

Kendall 

Praise God for His blessings!

Hello Everyone!

I want to thank all of you who have been praying for the sale of my house in Greentown. Despite that depressed market in the Kokomo area, God has blessed us with buyers. We will be renting a small house in Johnson County as we contemplate a more permanent solution to our housing needs. 

Christ's Church is continuing to show signs of slow and steady growth. We have added a children's program up through 6th grade on Sunday mornings, had dozens of visitors, a few additions, and had a couple baptisms this spring. Please pray for continued blessings as we plan our Grow Group schedule for June, July and August. We are going to do a lesson series on the book of Acts. One of our Shepherds, Art Bitts is heading up getting the lessons made for our leaders. Its good to see God's people serving and guiding the flock.

There are many challenges we face as a new church. We have leadership and financial needs and covet your prayers and financial contributions. We need to train more youth workers, another sound technician, and video projection technician. Please remember us and the work God has called us to in your daily prayers. It's more than I can handle and we really need God to provide.

One of my plans was to have a 2nd person on staff with me as we planted this church and for financial reasons we cannot do that at this time. Your contribution would help double our efforts and give me more time for evangelism rather than administrative and organizational duties. Please consider giving to Frontier Ministry Group.

Grace & Peace,

Kendall
kfaull@knowgrowshow.com

Your financial gifts and prayer support have been blessed by God to produce this.....

Thank you prayer warriors!

Chad started thinking about God back around Christmas. He wanted to find out about God and how change his life but he didn't know where to start. Then by the providence of God, he received a flier in the mail saying "TAKE THE NEXT STEP AT CHRIST'S CHURCH!" At this time many of you were praying for our outreach efforts.

So he showed up on January 4th for our grand opening. He kept attending all month. In February he joined one of our Grow Groups and started using our daily devotional studying a chapter of the Gospels per day. You all prayed for these groups as well. Thank you!

Two Sundays ago after hearing a message on John the Baptist from Luke chapter 3, he marked on one of our communication cards that he wanted to be baptized for the forgiveness of sins and to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. So I met with him last week and we talked. He was obviously a believer and desired to pledge his life to Jesus. It was a joy to baptize him into Christ. Pray for this new young believer because Satan will attack him for sure. We still need your prayers.

Pray for me because I will be meeting with another one of our guests this week who is very interested in becoming a Christian too. If you are a financial supporter or prayer warrior, you helped spread the gospel and it's making and eternal difference in people's lives. Your partnership with us is vital in doing the Lord’s work. Praise God for hearing our prayers. And I thank God for all of you and your support for what we are trying to do.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

A Report From the Midst of Battle.....

We are in the midst of spirtual battle. As we have jumped into the fray, so please remember us in your daily prayers.

We are two months in from our launch and one month in to our 90 DAYS WITH JESUS program. The good news is the vast majority of those who attend on Sunday are participating in this program.  We are reading through the Gospels daily as a church and I know this will bear fruit. We have also launched several grow groups which are now meeting each week. 

We have met privately with several of our guests and shared the gospel. There are two or three that are close to obeying the gospel. Pray that God would give us more opportunity to share with them and many others.

On the flip side,  attendance in February has dropped from our highs in January. This is to be expected. However

we always want to keep as many as possible and wish the drop was less. Please pray that we would be wise in the way we act toward outsiders. Pray we don't lose momentum. 

My request is that you would pray the same pray for us that Paul asked the believers in Colossae to pray for him.....  

Colossians 4:3 "And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message"

Meanwhile, we are making plans for some exciting service opportunities locally in the spring and in the early summer a mission trip to New Orleans to help build homes. 

Our greatest need is for more organizational help and workers. We need to develop our ministry to young families and their children. Pray that God would give us wisdom, provide the workers and provide the resources to hire an associate evangelist. 

It was always my intention to have a partner with me in this new work. Finances have prevented that. Please pray for God to open the door for us to bring on another individual to help me carry this overwhelming load.  

I also want to thank everyone who has been diligently pray for the sale of our home in Greentown.  We had an offer this week and are in negotiations.  Your prayers in area are needed as well.

Wow!  We have a lot of prayer needs.  Thank God, he is in the business of supplying the needs of those who follow his purpose and seek his will.   He has always blessed me more than I deserve. 

Thank you for keeping us in your prayers.  

Christ's Church Launches New Grow Groups

Please pray for us!

This Sunday Christ Church launches the 90 DAYS WITH JESUS challenge. 

Christ's Church is challenging attendees to read through the gospels in 90 days by reading one chapter per day for 90 days.

Christ's Church is giving each person attending church a free devotional booklet that takes them through the gospels in 90 days. 

Also they are giving everyone a copy of the New Testament on CD in mp3 format.

Then the next 13 weeks sermons will come from which ever seven chapters of the gospels that they are reading that week. 

Also Christ Church is launching GROW GROUPS (home Bible studies) which will have lessons taken from the seven chapters in the gospels they are reading that week. 

Please pray that Christ's Church can fill the new GROW GROUPS with people. 

We know if we can get everyone reading the gospels each day, studying them in Grow Groups each week, and hearing a sermon on them each week, that the Word of God will produce some powerful results. 

Welcome New Supporters of Frontier Ministry Group

I want to thank those of you who have pledged support starting this month. We are trying to raise money to hire a second preacher here at Christ's church. We want to be like Paul & Silas and go out in twos.

In todays tough and uncertain economic environment we especially appreciate the faith of those who are so generously giving to this ministry.  So thank you.

We had another great week with even more new guests.  We also had many 2nd time guests. Please pray for God to give us the wisdom to guide them to know Christ, Grow in Christ and Show Christ to the world.  I am anxious to see our first baptisms take place. 

I was walking with my Nephew Austin past the multi-million dollar swim competition facility in the High School we are renting for our worship service. I pointed to the olympic sized pool and said "Look our baptistry." :)

Pray that we "make the most of every opportunity" and declare the whole mystery of God with boldness and clarity.  

PS> Did you invite someone to church this week?

God answered your prayers!

THANK YOU ... THANK YOU ... THANK YOU ....  to everyone who as been praying for Christ's Church and our grand opening. 

And most of all THANK YOU to you, my wonderful Father in Heaven for hearing our prayers and sending Your blessings. 

On our first Sunday lunching our new church we had 180 people in attendance. Yes, we had 180 on our first Sunday.  We are excited. 

Please continue to pray for us as we follow up with these guests.  Also we will be launching at least 10 new home Bible studies in February. We call them grow groups.  Our plan is to train disciples the way Jesus did, with groups of 12 doing life together. 

Many people think the goal for a new church is to get big enough to buy a building.  Not us! Our mission is to guide people to Know Christ, Grow in Christ and Show Christ.  Buildings are NOT wrong.  But we think in our case that they would not be a wise use of the resources God has given.

We don't own a building. We don't own an auditorium. We don't own a family life center, a gym or a children's wing. We don't have a christian pre-school or school. We don't even have any land that we own.  But neither did the churches in ACTS. We don't need to own those things to share the gospel.  

Why would 100 visitors come if we don't own a building?  Because people are looking for God and for friends to help them grow in God's love and for opportunities to show that love and make a difference in this word. 

I was in a local pizza shop buying lunch last week.  I told the woman behind the counter that I was new to town and that I was helping start a new church. She said she was looking for a church to attend and that she may like to come. I gave her one of our impact cards. And guess what?  She showed up Sunday.  As she was coming out I said, "Hey, you came!"  She said, "Yes, and I'll be back too!" She even ran into someone she knew.  Now we have more opportunities to help guide her to Know Christ, Grow In Christ and Show Christ.  It can be as simple as that.

I know the #1 reason people you meet don't attend your church!  You never invited them.  I wonder how many thousands would be saved if every Christian just started inviting people at random.   What if you invited the gas station attendant, the waitress, the postman, the neighbor, the co-worker, the people in line at the bank, and everyone else you meet today?  I know many of them wouldn't come to church. But if only one or two came to know Christ because you invited them ... just think ....  wouldn't it be worth your minimal effort?

This not to say that inviting people to church is our only evangelism strategy (God forbid).  However, it is one simple way that works. And it's something anyone can do. So get out there Christians.  Stop seeing church as a building to care for or your own personal club that the sinners are not invited to join. Find the lost sheep. Bring them in. 

Go praise God to the world. Talk about how great He is. Talk about how God has blessed you. Tell someone how blessed you were by a sermon, a scripture, a song or the people in your church. Give God glory and the seekers will stream to Him. Point the way.  Don't be silent. 

And keep praying for us!

Grace & Peace,

Kendall Faull

Please Pray For Christ's Church Each Day.

Pray for Christ's Church and it's grand opening this Lord’s day. It’s the first Sunday meeting at Franklin Community High School.



We have invited over 20,000 people. Pray that many show up to hear the gospel. Pray that we can guide them to know Christ, grow in Christ & Show Christ to the world.



We will be meeting in the Franklin Community High School's 900 seat Performing Arts Center.


Thank you for praying for us.

“Finally, brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you.” (2 Thessalonians 3:1)

More Than We Asked For Or Imagined...

We looked for a small place to rent but God provided something more than we asked for or imagined. We didn’t expect to be able to afford a 900 seat, state of the art auditorium. But God provided one. Now can we fill it? Pray he will send us more new people than we asked for or imagined too. Pray that we will faithfully share the good news of Jesus Christ.

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21

CHRIST'S CHURCH GRAND OPENING JANUARY 4TH

CHRIST'S CHURCH GRAND OPENING JANUARY 4TH

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Yet taking that first step of faith can involve uncertainty. What if it’s the wrong path? What if I slip? What—or who—will I find at the end? At Christ's Church we’re exploring the path laid out through God’s word— come join us this Sunday! You’ll find great music, Biblical teaching and fellow travelers to walk with you on your journey! Make your next step to join us in worship this Sunday.

CHRIST'S CHURCH MEETS AT FRANKLIN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

SERVICE STARTS @ 10:30AM

WE LAUNCH ON JANUARY 4TH, 2009. PRAY!!!

We need your help. We launch Christ's Church on January 4th, 2009. Please be in prayer for us. Our plan is in place and we are "a go for launch" but there are always challenges.

Satan wants us to fail. He wants us to give into the faithlessness of fear. He wants to distract us with pride or pleasure. He wants to lure us with lust or laziness. He wants to divide us with selfishness or self righteousness. So we need your prayer support for this spiritual battle.

Thank you to those of you who have partnered with us in spreading the gospel. I know God will bless you for your generosity and supply you with all you need to serve Him with ever increasing blessing. Without your support, this church could not happen.

I also want to encourage those who are considering helping support Christ's Church. Due to the economic downturn over all givng is down. Please pray and ask God if he wants you to support Frontier Ministry Group as we plant our very first Church. There is no better way to spend mission money than on planting new Churches. We need your help!

Most of all, take a few moments RIGHT NOW and pray for the people of Christ's Church. Pray for God's will to be done. Pray for His truth to be spread. Pray for His people to be courageous. Pray for His mercy to be shown. Pray for His grace to be recieved. Pray for doors to open. Pray that the lost might hear the good news of JESUS at Christ's Church. Pray for our boldness. Pray for God's blessing upon all we do.  Grace & Peace to you!

What Happens When You Give...

HELP US PLANT A NEW CHURCH.

Become a partner in planting new churches....

It's official! We have chosen the name: Christ's Church. Our mission: to lead people to Know Christ, Grow in Christ and Show Christ to the World. We are looking for partners who want to help us plant new churches after the apostolic pattern of teaching. Would you pray for us?

Please pray the God will bless us with the following needs:

1. Frontier Ministry group needs two more churches who will be willing to give $20,000 over a two year period.
2. We need 34 more people who will commit to giving $100 per month for 2 years.
3. We need to purchase computer presentation software.

Please pray for us and ask God if He wants you to become a partner in helping us meet these needs.

Thank you for visiting our site and offering up prayers on our behalf.

God's Plan for Evangelism: New Churches

The Church is God’s plan to share the gospel with the world. It says in Ephesians 3:10 “His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known...” And in 1 Timothy 3:15 Paul says the church is “God’s household” and “the pillar and foundation of the truth.”

God gave us the church. It is God’s plan to reach the lost. If you read the book of Acts you will notice the apostles went about planting new churches. New churches planted across the Roman Empire caused the unprecedented growth. We want to follow that model of growth. The goal of the Frontier Ministry Group is to TRAIN leaders, EQUIP new church plants, and INSPIRE mother churches to multiply. We want to fulfill the mission to win the lost the Apostles way: By planting new churches.

The Most Effective Method of Evangelism: New Churches

“Today, of the approximately 350,000 churches in America, four out of five are either plateaued or declining . . . . Many churches begin a plateau or slow decline about their fifteenth to eighteenth year. 80-85 % of the churches in America are on the down-side of this cycle. Of the 15 percent that are growing, 14 percent are growing from transfer, rather than conversion growth.” -Win Arn,

In the average year, half of all existing churches will not add one new member through conversion growth. -Ron Sylvia

One American denomination recently found that 80 percent of its converts came to Christ in churches less than 2 years old - Ralph Moore

“On a per capita basis, new churches win more people to Christ than established churches.” -Ed Stezer

Churches over fifteen years of age win an average of only three people to Christ per year for every one hundred church members. Churches three years to fifteen years old win an average of five people to Christ per year for every one hundred church members, but churches under three years of age win an average of ten people to Christ per year for every one hundred church members. -Brian McNichol

“The single most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven is planting new churches.” -Peter Wagner

The Need For New Churches

New Churches are needed to reach the growing number of lost people.
Even though America has more people, it has fewer churches per capita than at any time in her history. Although the number of churches in America has increased by 50 percent in the last century, the population has increased 300 percent. There are now nearly 60 percent fewer churches per 10,000 persons than in 1920.- Bill Easum

Almost three times as many churches are closing each year as are opening. (Tom Clegg and Tim Bird, Lost in America: How You and Your Church Can Impact the World Next Door)

Studies show that if Churches of Christ & Christian Churches wish to reach more people, the number of new churches it begins each year must equal at least 3 percent of the brotherhoods existing churches. (Eastland Report: Church Planting)

Numbers from actual counts of people Catholic, Mainline Protestant, and Evangelical churches show that only 17.5% of the population attended a church on any given weekend in 2005. (The American Church Research Project)

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The Christian Church/Church of Christ only makes up 5% of church attendance in the United States. (The American Church Research Project)

In Indiana where there are more Christian churches and Churches of Christ than any other state, we only comprise 16% of Church attendance. (The American Church Research Project)

New Churches Need Your Help!

How You Can Help Plant New Churches:

1. We believe in planting churches the Bible way by sending evangelists out by twos. This requires raising support for two years for two men. You could help by being a monthly supporter of Frontier Ministry Group.

2 New churches require startup costs: renting a facility, sound systems, projectors, communion trays, and office supplies. You could help by giving a one time gift toward start up costs.

3. All the planning and money in the world will not help if God does not bless our efforts. You can help by praying for our first church plant named Christ's Church just south of Indianapolis, Indiana. The core group is meeting now and we hope to launch to the public in January of 2009.

TRAIN NEW LEADERS

And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. -2 Timothy 2:2

Frontier Ministry Group will partner with churches by providing training materials and educational resources on church planting. And through internships each church we plant will train up future church planters. Like the Church at Antioch, each new congregation will be constantly training up and sending out new preachers to establish new congregations. Please pray for us.

EQUIP NEW CHURCH PLANTS

Matthew 10:41-42 "Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward."

Through fund raising, we will provide financial resources for new church plants. We hope to partner with church planters by training them, helping to find funding and partnering them with a mother church. Finding funding is a serious challenge. While we will help with funding, it is our belief that each church planting team should be trained to raise funds themselves and play a significant role in the funding of their own ministry.

INSPIRE MOTHER CHURCHES TO MULTIPLY

Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only; for even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid again and again when I was in need. - Philippians 4:15-16

Through teaching and preaching, we will educate churches on the need for church planting. By pointing to the New Testament pattern, the latest statistical data, and Jesus teaching on our mission, we will inspire established churches to be involved in sponsoring a church plant. Each church we plant will commit to training new leaders and sponsoring a church plant as soon as they are self-supporting.

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. -Hebrews 10:24