LifeChurch.tv began about 2 years before Grace Community began to emerge from the primordial soup of campus ministry. They first came onto our radar in March ‘06 when Bill Glick noticed them in a podcast. Bill mentioned this innovative outfit to me (Dave) in August last year and I didn’t pay much attention. I do remember Bill saying they had a heart to collaborate- a core value of mine and something Grace Community has pursued locally.

So in Jan ‘07, Bill nudged me again and said I had to check out this innovative outfit in OKC and so I went to their site and took a look. I saw right away that this was a group that had some ministry DNA like Grace and we made contact.

In late March several of us had a conference call with a staffer there named Brian Ahern whose job it is to serve churches who are interested in linking with LifeChurch in some way. We decided to attend an event there in Late April called “Together We Can…Explore, Interact, and Discover”. So for two days we did just that…no one was trying to teach or convince or sell. It was just an intro and discussion about how churches can work together with them to better accomplish our mission.

So in early May I began to urge people at Grace to look at the “Vision 2007″ message from LC and some did. Then I visited one of their sites in Ft Worth while I was in Dallas for another meeting. Later, I dropped in at OKC on my way home from vacation and visited several of their sites as well.

Lately I returned there for two days and interacted with their “Directional Leadership Team”, went to several of their staff meetings and gatherings, and interacted with some leads from H2O church in Ada, OK- a network church.

We began to use LifeChurch material some in our services during the summer and the response around Grace has been almost completely very very positive.

So after much question asking, discussion and prayer, the Grace Leadership Community (board, staff, ministry directors) agreed that we should become a part of the LifeChurch.tv network and begin to use their materials on a regular basis.

This has been a journey of over a year.