Just one year after its inaugural service the new Elevation Church in Matthews boasts attendance of 1,200. A rock and roll church that converts Providence High School into holy ground by working late Saturday night and early Sunday mornings, Elevation has struck a cord that is drawing a net full of people.
Seven couples from Christ Covenant Church in Shelby committed to starting a new church and considered locations across the nation. They ended up just 60 miles down the road in booming Matthews.
“We knew God was going to do a big work through us because we knew the vision He had given us,” said Larry Brey, assimilation pastor. “If we work like it depends on us and pray like it depends on Him, we can do an amazing thing. Our goal is to reach the lost.”
Attracted by a loud, upbeat style and conversational, life-relevant preaching, participants flood Elevation, one of 88 new churches started in 2006 with the help of the church planting team of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Church planting is one of the three major areas supported by gifts to missions through the North Carolina Missions Offering.
Pray for Elevation Church:
- Church leaders
- Their community outreach efforts
- Discipleship of new Christians at the church