GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP) -- Church planting was not in Josh Howeth's plans.
While his seminary peers were eager to jump into church planting,
Howeth looked to a future serving and revitalizing existing churches.
Only a couple of years into serving as worship and family pastor at
Grant Avenue Baptist Church in Corvallis, Ore., those plans changed.
"Our
leadership at Grant Avenue desired to reach the students on the Oregon
State campus," Howeth said during a North American Mission Board
commissioning service in conjunction with the Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina's 182nd annual meeting in November.
Church
planting was "an area of ministry that just hadn't clicked yet" when
some of Grant Avenue's leaders approached him with the vision to plant a
church on the campus.
Initially resistant to the idea, Howeth
and his wife Elizabeth committed to praying about the opportunity and,
within the year, their hearts were changed.
"What started as the
burden of our church and our convention for these college students
slowly became the burden of our hearts too," Howeth said.
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