Next Steps Culmination Service

This is a culmination service rather than a typical message, narrating the two-year Next Steps generosity initiative against the longer story of the church — from a congregation that closed its doors in 2017, through a 2018 launch, a COVID collapse from over three hundred to seventy-two, and a return to growth. The numbers are reported plainly: a $1.7 million goal reached at 94 percent, a building expansion completed, and baptisms over two years matching the entire prior four years. Elders are brought up to testify to faith stretched, families changed, and challenges weathered. Anchored in 1 Corinthians 9:24–25 , the closing argument is that the end of an initiative is not a finish line but a stepping stone — God brings people to such moments not to stop, but to go.