We need your HELP!!!

I would not normally do this, in fact it is the thing that I hate the most in life and that is ASKING FOR HELP. As most of you know Amica and I have been on this journey of planting a church in RTP area for the last 8 months. It has been amazing seeing how God has orchestrated all kinds of miracles throughout the process. We are few months away from our first service and still have so many things we want to do to communicate the truth about God’s love for the unchurched, uncommitted and undecided of our community. Within a few months out there are a lot of decisions and purchases that need to be made and that is where WE NEED YOUR HELP. We are believing God for an additional $50,000 which we do not have now to get the items we need, market our church to the community and reach out to the people around us in a practical and relevant way.

We are asking that you would prayerfully ask God what would be your part to play in this new church plant. We know that the local church is the hope of the world, and we would love for you to partner with us in this investment into the kingdom of God. Thank you so much for your belief in us and what the Lord is doing here in RTP area.

Bringing People to God with the Love of Jesus,

Raphael and Amica

If you would like to invest in this church, you can give securely through donation: 3413 Skybrook Lane, Durham, NC 27703

UP THE MIDDLE CHURCH

In The Up The Middle Church, Matt Keller offers an on-the-field playbook for pastors and leaders who need to know how to win their Super Bowl one yard at a time!

The church world today is inundated with stories of Overnight Success. The one percent of churches who have a long bomb story seem to make the headlines, but what about the other ninety-nine percent? Are we destined for failure? Are we left without options? Will we ever see our dream of doing something great for God come true?


In The Up the Middle Church, Matt Keller unpacks the myth that just because a church isn’t big, fast, doesn’t mean it isn’t successful. When Next Level Church began in 2002, it was anything but an overnight success story. However, by learning and implementing the principles that are in this book, that same church has grown from four people to nearly a thousand every week!

There is a new normal in the church world today, and it’s The Up the Middle Church. It’s possible to win in your church, but maybe God wants to show you how…one yard at a time!

Life Giving Life-Space

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ traded spaces with us on the cross. He died in our place, for our sin so that we could have life. But if you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins, you only believe one-half of the Gospel. The other half of the Gospel is the fact that Christ fulfilled God's standard perfectly. He was 100% righteous. So, had Christ been 90% righteous or 80% righteous, his sacrifice would not meet God's demands. He was 100% righteous so that we can have life and more the abundance.

So, once you bow the knee to Christ and ask him to come into your life to take residence, to come into the dwelling place of your heart, then the righteousness of Christ is imputed into your life. Thus, when God sees you, he sees Jesus and his perfect character. This is only able to take place because of the resurrection power.

That's the power that can renovate our minds and hearts today and that will one day completely renovate and restore our sin-torn bodies into glorified bodies that will live forever in heaven (New-Life). The resurrection is the final hope of every Christ-follower. It is the "final reveal" of God's design and renovation: the perfection of our mind, body, and spirit. On the other side of the grave, when God says, "Okay, open your eyes and see your new life-space," you will open your eyes in a resurrected, recreated body, a completely new life-space that you will inhabit for eternity.

It will be the perfect life-space, designed by the perfect Designer (God the Father), rebuilt by the perfect Carpenter (Jesus Christ) and purchased at the ultimate cost (Christ's precious blood). But you've got to make the choice: Are you going to keep trying on your own to rebuild the rubble left by sin or are you going to let the Carpenter renovate your life into the perfect life-space.