07-AAEO 2025 - Martin Main 02

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When I think what does the world
need to know about Wyoming?

You can drive an hour any direction
of where we are

and there's not another neighborhood.

You're not going to pass a gas station,
nor a subdivision.

You're not going to pass a Walmart.
You're not going to pass anything.

And the saddest reality of Wyoming

is you can be born,
live, and die in Wyoming

and never have a church share the gospel
with you in your hometown…

because there's 203 places to live

and over 60 of those places
don't have a church of any kind.

Medicine Bow really is typical
of so many of the 203 towns in Wyoming.

Medicine Bow is a town of 200 people

and the largest religious affiliation
is “none”.

So, when we get asked
why are we planting new churches?

There's so many already.

Well, in Wyoming, the answer is easy,
there's a lot of places without them.

My family and I planted a church
in Bar Nunn, Wyoming,

and over the last two years
we've seen 118% growth.

But we are just so spread out,
we have got to work together

to start churches in towns
that have never had a church.

So, our heart and what we see God
priming and prepping us to do

is to raise up men,
train them with an apprenticeship here,

and then send them out to be a part
of our circuit preaching team.

Because when we think about

where are the church planters
going to come from,

we've had to come to the reality that

they're coming from our congregation.

And we've got to start from ground zero
and raise them up and send them out.

God has not forgotten
about these small towns.

And so we plant churches
because they need the gospel too.

And this is the only way
we're ever going to get it to them.