Why church plant in SoCal with GBC Menifee? – part 4 of 5

While Jesus was on earth, He promised to build His church out of these believing people. Before He ascended, Jesus told His disciples to go into the entire world with the gospel and make disciples, so that people from all nations would be added to Christ’s church.

Acts records how Christ built His church through the disciples’ aggressive church planting, which was the primary method for obeying the Great Commission in the early church.

As he planted churches, the apostle Paul prioritized cities because cities are strategic. Every city that Paul visited in Acts was a place of importance and influence. Surely this was not accidental.
Paul also prioritized team ministry. He names at least 15 coworkers. Though he could have been a ‘lone ranger,’ Paul worked hard at building teams.

What better place than Southern California with its more than 20 million people for these Great Commission priorities: church planting in the city with a team?

In 2003, Tim and Kristalyn Lovegrove and David and Heather Wilkinson went to Southern California with these priorities and this vision on their hearts. Six years later, God has raised up a self-supporting church in Menifee that is reaching out into the community, training men for leadership, and making a difference in lives every day.