2025-2026 Annual report

What a year to be a part of Grace Point! We celebrated the one-year birthday of Rooted Community Church. We celebrated baptisms, dedications, salvations and the way Jesus changes lives! Below is a letter from Pastor Tim and then the Annual Report which includes key metrics, stories from the pastoral team, and glimpses into the past year.

From Pastor Tim

When you read your Bible, you’ll find a lot of physical imagery used to explain God — even though He is spirit and is beyond flesh and bone. But, in order to help us flesh-and-bone folk understand our Creator, the biblical writers talk about God’s hands, His eyes, even His wings. 

But you won’t find a single verse using this image: the sweat glands. That’s because God doesn’t sweat. He doesn’t get tired or suffer from aching muscles. He never gets stressed out, despite the size of a task. He doesn’t enter his mission after a hard millennium’s work and say, “Whew boy! I sure could use a hot shower, a couple Advil, and a mentholated rubdown from an angel!” No, God is superhuman, tireless, and all-powerful.

That is true of God… but not of us. We get tired, stressed, and our sweat glands work overtime. This has been especially true for me over the past year. The tasks’ have been bigger than normal, the work has been difficult, and stress has been a normal part of my week. It’s been good stress but stress nonetheless. 

The largest, most stressful task of the past ministry year was working with a team of 12 people—staff and lay leaders—to reimagine our mission as a church. That was 9 months of meetings, prayer, conversation, word-smithing, and dreaming what might be in the future. It was tiring but so good for us to work through that process! 

But in reality, that was the easy part. Working to see the mission and values lived out is the next step. It won’t happen overnight, it won’t happen next month, it probably won’t even happen next year. It will take more meetings, more prayer, more conversations, and more sweet tea than I care to admit. 

The good news is, even though I’m sweating that process a little bit right now, God isn’t. I may be at a loss of where all of this is headed but he’s already there. I’m overwhelmed at the intricacies of all the details but he’s not. I’m choosing to trust that he’s at work in and through our church; in the midst of, and even as we work out all those details.      

So as you look through the pages of this report, pause and give thanks for what He’s done in our midst over the past year, for the new direction he’s given us, and then put it down and ask the tireless, unfazed, never-going-to-sweat-it Lord of the church to do more than we can ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.(Ephesians 3:20)

Pastor Tim

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