By Amy Ferrara
Summary
Two years after church plant launch, HCBC UT church leaders had to decide whether to maintain their attractional model approach enjoying solid church attendance growth with Christian students, or follow the Lord’s prompting and take a major risk knowing it could easily be the church plant’s demise. A commitment to the vision at all cost and comfort paid off, and HCBC UT reemerged as a multi-generational incarnational missional church with an arsenal full of divinely-guided lessons learned and stumbled-upon best practices. The “perfect storm” of logistical, financial and performance challenges ultimately resulted in a collegiate ministry environment with a student church body mobilized on mission, supported by multi-generational shepherds.
