Grace Point Church turns 10
Do you ever wish life came with an edit button? Do you wish you could go back and rewrite or omit a chapter of your story? I think all of us have moments or seasons we wish we could amend. Ten years ago this week a new church launched in Las Vegas. 135 people gathered in a middle school cafeteria north of Las Vegas and Grace Point Church was born. I had the privilege to serve as the Founding & Lead Pastor of Grace Point for its first five years. In reality, I had already invested over 3 years of my life into that moment so the official "launch" was simply the climax of the previous chapter of my life. Parachuting into a community like Vegas and planting a church is a daunting task. Very few church plants survive in Vegas. And truthfully only a church planter knows the weight and burden of starting a church from scratch. The amount of money that must be raised (a million dollars for us), convincing a core group to move to Las Vegas with you with no guarantees of