New campus in Rockport Texas

We are well under way of launching our seventh multi site campus for Bay Area Fellowship. It is in Rockport Texas and what a testimony it has already created. From our newest campus pastor, Adam Harris, ( you can follow him on twitter @adamjharris) selling his house in Victoria to finding a new house in Rockport, all in record timing, all the way to already having one person accepting Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour in one of our core meetings.

The worship area is making awesome progress as Pastor Joey Davila (our multi site worship pastor @joeydavila on twitter) is doing an awesome job creating a wonderful and beautiful place of worship.

The children's area is coming along great, kind of slow in my opinion but that is just me because I want it microwave style "RIGHT NOW"!! I am so excited because of the progress that has been made there, we start painting two days from now and I can't wait because that just means we are one step closer to reaching the community of Rockport and surrounding communities for Christ one child at a time. Stacia, my beautiful, awesome, most wonderful wife, is jumping in and being my hero this week as she and one of her friends go on a couple days of shopping to equip our nursery area with all the tools to minister to kids birth to 35 months old. She is a huge, and I can't express HUGE part of this ministry being successful!! She keeps me encouraged and prays for me daily, for that I am so blessed. She will be so busy over the next week or two to make sure the Bay (nursery) and Boardwalk (3 to pre-k) has everything in the rooms to make it a success.

I am so proud and honored God has chose Stacia and I and our kids to be a part of this ministry. Keep looking at these names on twitter to keep up with the progress and some pictures will be posted soon on our facebook pages of the progress in BAF_ROCKPORT. Follow these names on twitter: @gibbsg @staciagibbs @adamjharris @johncatkinson @joeydavila @baf_rockport

SILENCE

As I was reading one of my devotions today, it was amazing how it matched up with what is going on in my personal life here lately. After Pastor Bil Cornelius preached a message without saying one word, it really made me get into a place of SILENCE. And after reading I Kings 19:11-13, it all makes since.

I Kings 19:11-13 reads The LORD said "Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by." Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing her, Elijah?"

In the last few weeks we have been getting ready to launch and have now launched our 6th multi site campus. I am responsible for getting the children's ministry from birth to 5th grade up and going. Believe it or not, it required a lot of time working and recruiting and scheduling and building and ordering and preparing for the launch and now that the campus is up and going, I have to make sure there are volunteers in correct places, make sure the processes are going smoothly. In the center of all the excitement and business, I found my mind and spirit clouded with thoughts and events. It wasn't until these last two weeks, have I slowed down, and allowed that GENTLE WHISPER be heard.

We all need to just slow down, clear out minds, schedules and lives for a season so we can hear that GENTLE WHISPER from God through the HOLY SPIRIT.