Prestonwood North Dinner on the Grounds

We had a great time celebrating our annual Dinner on the Grounds last night at Prestonwood North. We come together as a church family each year between the anniversary of this campus and the anniversary of moving into the permanent facility in Prosper ... and we have just a typical Sunday potluck church dinner.

Well, sort of typical... We had more than 1,200 there and some great food (our people can really cook!) and giant inflatables and games for the kids covered the front parking lot. The Quinten Hope Band provided some great music. (I was itching to get on drums with those guys.)

But the evening really was about changed lives and the work that the Lord is doing through our church family. We witnessed the baptism of 37 people, many of them parents and their children who have found a home at Prestonwood North.

One woman who was baptized along with her two children, described the experience as “breathtaking.” She said they’d been looking for a church home and just hadn’t found one until they went to Prestonwood North. Another gentleman told me he and his wife were headed for divorce when they started attending, and last night his wife was baptized. I love to hear that people are plugging in and finding a church to call home.

When God led us to that cotton field in Prosper more than four years ago, we knew He would do “exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think.” We knew the fields would be white for harvest... Looking around the grounds yesterday, seeing all these families become one, helped me again to realize that this is only the beginning. God has so much more in store as we continue to reach those communities.

I couldn’t think of a more fitting way to close the evening than by holding hands, looking toward the cross at the church entrance and singing the “Old Rugged Cross.” The Cross is why we exist; why we do what we do; why we continue to reach out locally, regionally, nationally and abroad with the Gospel... until the whole world hears.