100 Years of Reaching

LifePoint Church formerly First Baptist Church Smyrna celebrates 100 years today. What an amazing thing for a church to be just hitting it's stride at a century. From it's very inception, this church has been missionally minded. In 1909 a pastor of a small baptist church in Murfreesboro TN decided that a nearby town needed it's own church. Nine brave and obedient people headed to the call and moved to start a church. Fast forward to today and LifePoint church who underwent a name change to be relevant worldwide is reaching around the globe. Quite an accomplishment when you consider that 80 percent of churches are actually diminishing in size and growth. The key to this success? I believe it is that this church is running hard after God. His glory here and around the earth is a common desire of this body. We have been called to do things that are uncomfortable, and as a whole have accepted change with grateful hearts. I am proud to serve in a church where Jesus is our head and the body though not perfect is an example of Christ's love to the world we live in. Here's to another hundred years of making His name famous!