House Church stories worth telling

Stories inspire more stories.

We can talk about house churches at Renew and how significant they are to our faith community – or we can tell you stories that are emerging from these Jesus communities.

Here are three stories that are worth telling:

1. One of our Lansdale house churches has committed to starting a community garden where the community is invited to participate. The produce from the garden will mostly go towards supplying our local food pantries with fresh, healthy and locally grown foods. They’ve identified land and are in the process of making this happen! They’ve just started a blog at http://lansdalegarden.blogspot.com

2. Kids are an important part of our community. A couple on our launch team that serve as house church shepherds (and are parents to two young children) told me that a few weeks ago their three year old daughter decided to stop “playing house” and instead decided to start “playing house church” and invited her mommy to sit down on the floor because she was about to start teaching. Even our children are picking up the importance of smaller Jesus communities and their role in our lives!

3. One of our house churches utilizes a prayer journal regularly to track what they pray for each week.

This recent entry is from a new Christian.

God,

Thank you for this House Church! I am so blessed to be a part of this group and witness all the love that continues to grow between each of us. “What is Love?” is starting to be a question that brings to mind several memories of various prayers, conversations, gestures, etc. involving all of the people in our HC. For all the nights that I have been timid and silent during our group prayers, please allow these friends to understand how much I care for them. And God, please allow them to see how much goodness they are bringing into my life.