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This week we take some time to share about getting to the Soft Launch and what to look forward to going into the future!

This week Haley takes some time to share what she has been learning about about personalities and the strengths they bring, but also the challenges they present within the body of believers.

This week we took some time to share about the difficulties and beautiful aspects around being married while church planting together.

In this episode we take some time to share the things that God is teaching us in conjunction with planting a church.

This week we got to share some thoughts of where we are in the planting process and some cultural aspects of our church.

Haley shares some of what she learned and talked about with our Core Team on being Kingdom Minded.

This week we talk about the church's value of fun. Why it's important and where does it come from.

This week we share a little about taking on a new perspective with the work that we are given in order to align with the heart of God and not the expectations from others or ourselves.

Haley is back this week as we talk about fall, pruning, and leaning into what Jesus has for us.

With Haley out of town, Shay took some time to talk about living in tension. Jesus often gave statements that speaks to this and it is something we need to learn to do as disciples.

This week we got to share some updates of what is going on with TLC, with one of them being that our Core Team is now meeting on Sunday mornings! This is a huge shift in our church and we are so excited to see how God uses this to build into all of us!

This week we get to introduce our worship pastor and his wife! God has been unfolding such a beautiful story in bringing us to this place. We are so excited for them to move here and join what God is doing in Kansas City!

We get to share about the radically generous gift we received and the heart we long to infuse in the culture of The Local Church.

We take some time in this episode to share about investing in our community and the role of participating in God's restoration of all things.

We follow up last weeks conversation talking through some more elements and research around Biblical consecration.

In this episode Haley shares about what she has been sitting in and learning about consecration. We are called to be holy and our role is to consecrate ourselves.

This week we share some thoughts around leading a church. What does it mean as Christ followers to be responsible for leading others in their pursuit of Jesus?

In this episode we talk about our second interest interest gathering for the church and how to navigate shifting priorities amongst a shifting schedule.

With missing last week, there are quite a few things we are excited to share. We got to connect with with college students at MNU, serve at 4th Friday, and share at two different churches!

We are so excited for our Core Team coming together and being able to be in regular community with them. We would also love your prayer about some things coming up this week for the church!

We are celebrating our first big community event that The Local Church co-hosted. It was a beautiful expression of the church loving our community. We also process how to shift what we have been doing to develop our Core Team!

This week we discussed what we are learning by reading about the life of Jesus in the Gospels and how we practically practice the way of Jesus in our day.

In this week's episode we take some time to share some of the harder parts of the week as we navigate new realities together in order to become more like Jesus.

In this episode we process our first interest gathering and how we hope to move forward. We also share about the tension of having to do so many different things that may not align with our gifts and wirings in this season.

We got to share about our first Core Team gathering along with some other updates. God is doing some really cool things with The Local Church and we are loving being along for the journey.

We have some awesome updates to share in this episode, while also processing what does it mean to share our faith in Jesus in a quick touchpoint moment with someone. How do we do that well for their souls sake that brings God glory? P.S. No new update next week as we are spending some extra time with family over teh 4th!

In this slightly shorter episode we share some key updates about what has happened recently in the life of the church. Our first service project, new core team members and some things to pray for coming up!

In this episode we talk about how we don't always feel like being church planters, but we know we are called to do this and therefore we are called to persevere through our emotions and difficulties.

In this episode we talk about the why behind our mission statement for The Local Church, which is, practicing the way of Jesus in our day.

In this episode we circled back to discuss the presence of God and what we desire for our church plant and in the lives of those who become a part of the culture of our church.

In episode 4, we walk through some of the culture of encountering the presence of God that we want to cultivate in our church and why it is so important.

In this episode Haley shares some experiences from the church planter assessment process we experienced and how she is learning from that.

In this episode we share a few stories from the first 3 months in Kansas.

Join us as we share the beginning of our church planting journey and why we are starting The Local Church.