This past summer, Explore Church, a new church plant in Missoula, took a serving mission trip to Alaska. Follow our daily updates of the trip written by Sacha Hasenyager! Day 5 We started our day finishing construction projects at both campuses for the church, it was great to feel a sense of accomplishment for both buildings. In the afternoon we … Read More
Mission Trip Journal: Explore Church goes to Alaska-Day 4
This past summer, Explore Church, a new church plant in Missoula, took a serving mission trip to Alaska. Follow our daily updates of the trip written by Sacha Hasenyager! Day 4 Today we realized the importance of knowing the ‘why’ for a project. Even though the church that hosted us has over 200 in their church body, they still have … Read More
Mission Trip Journal: Explore Church goes to Alaska-Day 3
This past summer, Explore Church, a new church plant in Missoula, took a serving mission trip to Alaska. Follow our daily updates of the trip written by Sacha Hasenyager! Day 3 We had to leave our host church early in the morning so that they could set up for service. We went down to a nearby bird sanctuary to have … Read More
Mission Trip Journal: Explore Church goes to Alaska-Day 2
This past summer, Explore Church, a new church plant in Missoula, took a serving mission trip to Alaska. Follow our daily updates of the trip written by Sacha Hasenyager! Day 2 After a long night of picking up people at the airport our team is finally all together and ready to serve! Over half of our team received Christ as … Read More
Mission Trip Journal: Explore Church goes to Alaska-Day 1
This past summer, Explore Church, a new church plant in Missoula, took a serving mission trip to Alaska. During the next nine days, we will be posting daily updates of the trip written by Sacha Hasenyager. Explore Church is a new church plant that started in January of 2020, under the leadership of Mark Hasenyager. Planting a church during a … Read More
We’re Getting Real on November 12-13
Get Real West is just a week away. I hope you’re planning to join us at Crosspoint Community Church in Missoula. We’ll gather together with students from across Montana on November 12-13 for a great time of worship, hearing God’s word, fellowship, and games. The Christian band Becoming Bristol will be leading worship. They did a fantastic job at get … Read More
Discover, Develop, and Deploy
In 2 Timothy 2:1-2, we read an exhortation of the Apostle Paul to Timothy, which is a key principle in developing leaders. We are to entrust to faithful men (and women) what we have been taught, so those we are discipling can teach others. That’s four generations of discipleship in one verse. Our investment in developing disciple makers propels the … Read More
The Church Has Left the Building
How often have we heard the expression, “The church is not the building?” While this statement is 100% theologically correct, it does not always translate into how we practice being the church. For many congregations, their identity is tied more closely to a location and a building rather than who God has created them to be in their community. When … Read More
Being Known
Recently, I was face to face with the unenviable difficulty of having to admit sin, confess to another, and wrestle through the uncomfortable aftermath of, “Hey, I really stomped on your feelings there, and I’m sorry for doing that…again…” Predictably, I didn’t want to share. I didn’t want to own up to my failures. I didn’t want to be open. … Read More
