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 7 We served at the Set Free Church building again, painting the church and sheds. The best part of the day was our prayer walking. Our team went throughout the … Read More
Mission Trip Journal: Explore Church goes to Alaska-Day 6
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 6 Alaska is such a beautiful place so our trip split into three different groups so that people could explore according to passions. One group paid to be flown down … Read More
Mission Trip Journal: Explore Church goes to Alaska-Day 5
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
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
Where are the Workers? Calling Out the Called!
When is the last time you heard a pastor make a passionate plea for people to respond to God’s call to be a pastor, a missionary, or to be in full-time vocational ministry? Better yet, if you are a pastor, when is the last time you emphasized following God’s call and invited people in your congregation to follow God into … Read More
It Started in a Coffee Shop
How can the prayers of 5 college students in Pullman, WA, be used by God to start a collegiate church planting movement? That’s a great question! It’s an amazing story of life transformation, which is now unfolding at the University of Montana and Montana State University! I They longed to see the Kingdom of Heaven experienced on earth! As they … Read More