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When I think about what does the world
need to know about Wyoming?
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You can drive an hour any direction
of where we are
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and there's not another neighborhood.
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You're not going to pass a gas station,
nor a subdivision.
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You're not going to pass a Walmart.
You're not going to pass anything.
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And the saddest reality of Wyoming
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is you can be born,
live, and die in Wyoming
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and never have a church share the gospel
with you in your hometown…
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because there's 203 places to live
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and over 60 of those places
don't have a church of any kind.
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Medicine Bow really is typical
of so many of the 203 towns in Wyoming.
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Medicine Bow is a town of 200 people
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and the largest religious affiliation
is “none”.
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So, when we get asked
why are we planting new churches?
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There's so many already.
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Well, in Wyoming, the answer is easy.
There are a lot of places without them.
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My family and I planted a church
in Bar Nunn, Wyoming.
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Over the last two years
we've seen 118% growth.
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But we are just so spread out,
we have got to work together
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to start churches in towns
that have never, ever had a church.
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So, our heart and what we see God
priming and prepping us to do
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is to raise up men,
train them with an apprenticeship here,
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and then send them out to be a part
of our circuit preaching team.
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Because when we think about
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where are the church planters
going to come from,
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we've had to come to the reality that
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they're coming from our congregation.
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And we've got to start from ground zero
and raise them up and send them out.
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God has not forgotten
about these small towns.
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And so
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we plant churches
because they need the gospel, too.
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And this is the only way
we're ever going to get it to them.
