Last July I felt challenged by God with the question, “Is Western Hills becoming the church God really wants her to be?” Through the following months of challenging the staff and elders with the same question, deep introspection, and seeking wisdom from trusted mentors, a path emerged. That journey is what we’ve tried to communicate with the series We Are The Church.

Western Hills exists to live out the reality of Jesus for those far from the Gospel.

Out of this series came that statement, and it’s a great statement… BUT how will we flesh that out? What about each one of us having an intentional conversation about the Gospel with someone we already know who is far from Jesus? If 300 of us purposed to have one conversation a month with a friend who was far from the gospel about our relationship with Jesus for one year, that’s 12 conversations this year for a total of 3,600.

3,600 conversations.
3,600 people who are loved by someone who loves Jesus.
3,600 people getting a clear picture of Jesus.
3,600 opportunities to walk from death to life.

And that’s the challenge for us in 2018 – to have 3,600 conversations with those far from the Gospel. We still have some learning to do, and our next series, Just Walk Across The Room, is aimed at how to have these conversations from a genuine place, not selling Jesus like a door to door salesman.

We’ve set up a place to gather these stories. We’d love to hear about them and join you in prayer. Here are the options:

* write in the space provided,
* upload a 1-2 minute video about the conversation, or
* email us directly.

Please let us know whether or not we can share this story or if it needs to remain private. Throughout the year, we want to hear some of these stories to celebrate what God is doing. (We’ll never publish or tell a story without your permission.)

I’m so excited to see how God is going to work through these 3,600 conversations. He’s going to blow us away with this journey.