You have to be intentional

Right now Real Life is in a bit of a transitional phase. We are transitioning from a new church plant to that of a young church. When we first started off as a church it was pretty much Jeff and April's church. It was our idea, our vision, and our baby. As we are growing into a young church we are beginning the process of transitioning from Real Life being Jeff and April's church to Real Life being everyone's church. It doesn't just happen on it's own you have to plan it out and be intentional about how you change and what you change into.

It's not easy, in fact, right now we are experiencing some growing pains. We are bringing new people into leadership positions with the church. We are re-examining who does what and who should do what at the church. With that comes some pain and some learning. Over the next year your going to be hearing about and seeing lot's of changes at the church. We are adding some new staff people and changing some others to better fit their gifting.

The first and most obvious change has been in our Children's ministry. Martha Burk has stepped down from leading the children's ministry and Ernie Sampson has stepped into that role. You will notice some big changes in that ministry. We are adding on additional activities for the kids and planning lots of events for them to attend.

Our Worship arts area is changing too. Starting March 1st April is stepping down from being the Worship Leader and Aaron Hammitt is assuming that role. April will be moving into more of an administrative role and helping take care of the growing administrative duties that we are facing as a church.

We have also added Noah Stone as our Communications Director. Noah has a long background in public relations and as such he brings a wealth of experience to Real Life. Noah will be helping promote the church in our community. He'll be looking for ways for us to be the face of Jesus Christ in our community.

With all these changes will come a little struggle. We are after all revamping how we have done church for the last few years. The changes do mean that we are going to be able to do more ministry than ever before and that is a good thing. I cannot wait!