Transformation.

Here in words is the heart overflow of one of my best friends, Lance Humphreys. I hope you are inspired by how God is already at work among us.

"Jesus wants to TRANSFORM Oklahoma City for His glory. The days of individual churches or ministries getting glory are over. The days of being satisfied with obscure, incremental gains are coming to an end. Our city is entering a season where everything is being shaken. It’s grass roots, neighborhood by neighborhood and it’s at the highest levels of government and business. It is signs and wonders, unity in the church, harvest of salvation, and TRANSFORMATION in every segment of society (social justice, business, government, agriculture, arts and entertainment, medical, and communications). People will come from all over the world not to see what a single church, ministry, social service, or business has done, but what God has done. God will do a work in Oklahoma City that will impact nations. God always goes after the heart, and he is going after the heart of our city.

I believe God is going after the heart of OKC, and the heart of our city is downtown. You may recall that in October of 2006, while on sabbatical I sensed God saying that transformation was coming to OKC, beginning among the most marginalized in the center of the city and spreading to impact the entire region. Days later I received the phone call that connected us with an international vision to see cities transformed through uniting business and church leaders together in church planting (Vision360). Bridgeway has since become a catalyst in uniting business and church leaders in OKC to focus missionally on the heart of our city. Over the next 3 years we are partnering with other churches and business leaders to plant a church in every one of the 15 most vulnerable schools in Oklahoma City.

When Stacy and I moved back to OKC from Colorado to be a part of Bridgeway it was with a sense of a call to a city not just to a church. I can recall being in OKC for Christmas when we lived in Denver. For two afternoons I drove every street from 50th south to downtown praying for the city and envisioning a day when the church would rise up in the city center, uniting rich and poor, black and white, young urban hipsters with boomer suburbanites, worship and prayer filling the old cathedrals and mission filling the streets."