THE JOURNEY

Our beginnings were made long before we ever set a stake known as the Christian Life Center into the ground. For some, the beginning was in Bible College, others may have experienced their beginning in a revival in Ft. Worth, and some may have seen the start in a crowded living room, or in another state.

 

The real beginnings of Christian Life Center actually came when an Australian family was called by God to become missionaries to America. After many years of service and preparation at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, Dr. John King and his wife, Rebecca King, spent years traveling between nations, from church to church. And then, God moved.

 

In 2004 at a church in Ft. Worth, God began to move in a miraculous way. People were healed. Deaf ears could hear, the lame could walk, and cancers were no more. What started off as a single service, turned into ten weeks of miracles.

However, our pastor’s vision was not of a one-time revival in a single church. It is of a world-wide revolution, of turning people’s hearts toward Christ. He built on this revival, and began teaching others how the New-Testament church operated. The first meetings were held in a local hotel conference room to only a few. As interest grew, our pastor opened up his home twice a month. These meetings started off as a time of teaching and fellowship, not much different than our Wednesday nights today.

After six months, we had filled that living room. There was no room to move around, and parking was always an event. That’s when we decided we needed a bigger place, so we rented a community center in Keller. While it served its purpose, we didn’t quite have a place we could call our own.

In October of 2005, we moved into a small building on the corner of a building supplies parking lot. By this time we were meeting once a week, and had begun to incorporate worship into the service. We were slowly becoming a church.

In April of 2006, we had our first Sunday evening service, and in August, we, as leadership, made a commitment to building the church.

April of 2007 saw the next step in the beginnings of our church. We had grown. We were too big to fit in that little building. It was time for us to move into a bigger place.

And that’s where we are now. Not only have we moved into this place, but we have built it; not the structure, but we made this place a church where offices once stood. We have made the grounds beautiful, something we can all be proud of. We have poured ourselves into the making of this church.

 

Over the last four years, we’ve seen new life. We’ve seen new families come together. We’ve seen friends grieve over the loss of loved ones. But most of all, we’ve seen God rest here. We’ve seen His hand over us, guiding us to where we are now, and where we will go from here.

Ten years from now, when we are thousands of people in multiple locations, we can look back on our humble beginnings and see that God has been with us, been our focus, every step of the way.