One Final Landing
September 9th, 2001, I
gathered with a few dozen friends in a rented high school auditorium for the first
Sunday morning service as The Landing. We had been meeting on Friday nights in
a technology center for almost a year and it was time to see if this vision had
God’s blessing and the tenacity necessary to actually become a church. On March 3, 2002, we moved into an
industrial park and and officially became
The Landing Community Church. Four years later we moved once more; this time
into a 38,000 square foot building in Glenpool, Oklahoma. In June of 2015, after nearly 15 years of leading this work, God orchestrated the handing off of this church to an amazing young couple that could take what
God had begun and move it along the predestined path He had determined. Today,
after 17 years of ministering to thousands of people, the
ministry of The Landing will conclude its final service with that name and
merge with another ministry to begin charting a new course. The end of one season always ushers in the next. And it's sure to be a great one! One final Landing before a new flight:)
I feel like a father watching his daughter move away to college, get married, change her last name and begin
a new journey with unlimited possibilities. Though I’m sad to see this name
change, I’m thrilled to see how God can take a humble birth, fill it with His
power and Spirit, and launch a ministry that has influence and impact on
the community and the world. It’s not the first time He’s done that…and I’m
quite certain it won’t be the last!
To all of those friends, family
members and special guests that were part of those formative years-who prayed and supported what
God was doing even when we didn’t know what we were doing-I say THANK YOU from the
very center of my being and with all of my heart. This new season will be
significant for each of us and should be embraced as a natural part of a
supernatural lifecycle. It’s been an honor to serve The Landing and it will be
a privilege to pray for it’s successors, Ps. Bodie Sanders and Ps. Aaron Hunter as they begin with a new vision and a new name: Collective Church. I bless you today with the words I used to close every service...may
the Lord bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you and be gracious
to you. May He lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. AMEN.
