Our New Church

So, sometime last summer, Eric drove by a church called BNC (Brand New Church) when he was coming back from working in Branson, and he thought, "that looks cool, we should check it out." Then, the next day, there was an article in the newspaper about the church's pastor, Shannon O'Dell and a book that he had just written, called "Breaking All the Rurals," about pastoring in Rural America. Needless to say, we took that as a sign, and started going early last fall. We really liked our previous church here in NWA, but it was kind of a drive, and it was SOOO big, that we felt lost. We had enjoyed our community group, but we just felt that we really needed to find a better fit for us. And we are so glad that God pointed us to BNC! We have been going for about 10 months now, and it has been a life-changer for us! We have met amazing, Godly people, our community group at BNC is exactly what we had been looking for, and every Sunday, Pastor Shannon blows us away with his messages. We went to the C3 Conference at Fellowship Church in Texas in February with some of the people from our campus (the main campus is about an hour away, in Bergman, AR, and then there are several satellite campuses in various rural areas around AR), and it just confirmed even more that this is the place we are meant to be. And, on top of it all, Hannah has made great friends because there are several kids there that are right around her age (all within about 4 months of each other!). We have also felt called to give to help redo the children's area of our particular campus, so a bunch of us are working on that and it is going to be amazing when it is all done! We can't wait to see what all God has in store for BNC-NWA!