Omaha Bible Church South Campus Starts

This past Sunday marked the first service for the South Campus of Omaha Bible Church.  We are blessed to meet in the auditorium, cafeteria, and classrooms of Bellevue West High School.  This service marked a major step forward in our effort to establish a God-centered, cross boasting, expository ministry in the Bellevue, Offutt, Papillion area of Nebraska.

As the preaching pastor of this ministry I was greatly encouraged to find so many folks serving like they believed that God was glorious and his Son was worthy to be served and proclaimed.  I was repeatedly pinching myself on Sunday as I saw people buzzing around with God-centered zeal to promote the gospel.  To make matters even more exciting God blessed us by bringing several families who were new to Omaha Bible Church and live in the Sarpy County area.  Many of the folks had said that they were anticipating this ministry being launched.  There were a grand total of right around 150 folks with us on Sunday.  I pray that God would bring many people who have a hunger for the Word of God to work together in this ministry to promote the glorious truth of Christ’s gospel.

From my perspective the preaching was the breath of relief.  There have been so many administrative things over the last 9 months or so leading up to this that I just wanted to exhale and preach.  Thankfully this happened.  I am more thankful than ever for the fruit that God is working in and through the lives of many at OBC South; people are serving with a Christ-Centered, gospel-boasting mentality.  This is truly a result of benevolent grace.

If you think of it, we request your prayers for faithfulness, fervency, and a genuine hunger for the word of God, that God would be pleased to spread his fame through clay pots like us.

Photo credit: Angie Gottsch (more photos of Sunday on her FLCKR page)

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5 Responses to “Omaha Bible Church South Campus Starts”

1. Dave D. says:

   July 17, 2008 at 3:03 pm

   May God richly bless the church plant and may He empower your preaching. May He draw many to saving faith because His church has been planted in a new area.
2. Seth McBee says:

   July 17, 2008 at 4:16 pm

   erik.
   I am sure this is of great relief to get it up and running.

   Will be praying…
3. erik says:

   July 18, 2008 at 8:21 am

   Thanks for the encouragement guys. It is a relief to turn the key and have the car start up, now we need to stay in our lanes and press on.

   Seth, feel free to drop that phone call bro.

   Erik
4. Seth McBee says:

   July 18, 2008 at 11:34 am

   erik.

   I will give you a call next week…it has been crazy around here with VBS this past week.

   It will be good to talk…have a good weekend and preach it brother.
5. Jake Meador says:

   July 21, 2008 at 10:03 am

   Really excited to hear about it launching, keep us updated on how it’s going!