Last week The Local 724 Podcast sat down with the guys from 4TheCity Church. I was looking forward to this upcoming episode when I first heard about it on Instagram a week prior. This is the story of 4TheCity Church—which is looking to a big footprint in the city of Greensburg.
(Credit goes to 4TheCityChurch.com)
4TheCity Church exists to magnify Jesus by making disciples who share and show the transforming power of the gospel and plant churches that multiply in the city of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and to the ends of the earth. Their mission is making disciples who share and show the transforming power of the gospel.
In sharing and showing Jesus to others, we share and show the transforming power of the gospel. Because this gospel is the power of God, it is of first importance to us, and we make sharing and showing the transforming power of the gospel our mission.
Pastor Scott Rising and Pastor Kevin Giddings have come to love Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and they are very excited about starting a church in the city! But what they are starting in Greensburg is just a continuation of the journey God has had them on for many years.
Several years ago Scott began attending a large church in the Kittanning area where the lead pastor there took him under his wing. In his hometown of Indiana, as Scott was sharing the Gospel, before long, he had a core group of people who started gathering together, which eventually became a campus extension of his home church. Scott planted his first church several years before the genesis of 4TheCity Church. He is continuing in ministry as the lead church planter—4TheCity of Greensburg—tasked with casting vision for the church and preaching.
Kevin has been in ministry a bit longer than Scott (approximately two decades). Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Kevin started full-time ministry serving the church through community outreach and church planting as a young adult in Texas. Whereas Scott will be the primary visionary and preacher, Kevin will be tasked with church operations.
When Scott had the vision to start 4TheCity Church in Greensburg, he talked with Kevin about teaming up together since they were already very effective as a ministry team. Kevin was on board immediately, and the drive to establish a new church in Greensburg began.
The endeavor Scott and Kevin are starting—the launching of 4TheCity Church—might seem daunting. However, they are stepping out assured in the knowledge that God loves Greensburg. They are ready to make His love known to every person living there.
The vision of 4TheCity church is to plant churches that multiply in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and to the ends of the earth.
4TheCity church is located on West 4th Street in the same building where Stage Right theatre company is located. Services are at 10am on Sunday.
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