Simply Following Together :Your Ekklesia Story

As we approach our 5 year anniversary we have asked you to tell us your Ekklesia story.  We are thankful for all the responses and wanted to share a couple of them this week as we prepare for next Sunday night when we will celebrate all that God has done for us in the past 5 years.

To start us off here is how our brother and friend Steve Willis explained what God has done in his time Simply Following Together with Ekklesia

"An amazing journey of learning that loving and accepting others exactly the way God made them is more than just words. It takes practice! Spending the past 5 years with a goal of investing in a community and people that had minimal resources and countless needs. (Hawkins, wells in Haiti, orphanage in India,etc). Only to realize that the actual return on the investment has been so much greater than could have ever been imagined. Moreover, the journey proved that I had more needs than them and they had more resources than me. Lesson learned- everyone has needs and resources. The missing piece is Christlike (ekklesia) love and kindness. And to top it off, spending the last 5 years with a community of committed, selfless and encouraging people has made life worth living!"

               - Steve Willis