This week we will be commissioning Derek and Anlee Fekkes to plant Roots Church in the Stanwood/Camano community. This is an important moment for both Roots Church as well as for Communion. For those of you not familiar with a commission, it is the process by which we send someone out with the blessing of God and the backing of our church family. We do this for a number of reasons:
It’s biblically-modeled
It’s simply following the Biblical pattern of a larger church sending out leaders to new places to start new churches (Acts 13).
It’s visionary
When God births a church, it’s always born for something bigger. Commissioning allows us to see the bigger picture of what God is doing in and through our church to expand His kingdom.
It’s affirming
It allows us to affirm the gifting and calling of God in the individual and team being sent.
It’s convicting
It allows the Holy Spirit to use the testimony of those being commissioned to challenge us to use our gifts and abilities to join in God’s kingdom activity.
It’s inviting
It invites us to join in what God is doing in the life of those being commissioned, through prayer and generosity. This is a great opportunities to for you to join in what God is doing.
It’s celebrative
Every time we commission a team, we are celebrating that God is allowing our church to join in His activity.
Please join us this Sunday as we continue the Great Commission through the sending of new churches. Then join Roots Church next Sunday at 5pm as they officially launch this new expression of God’s family!