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| Merger Poster |
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The exciting story of how the merger happened is an obvious answer
to prayer. On the first Sunday of January 2004, the Northwest Church of
Christ saw a video sermon by Rick Atchley, the preaching minister for
the Richland Hills Church of Christ in Fort Worth, delivered to the
North American Christian Convention. In his charge Rick called for a
family reunion in the Restoration Movement. He dreamed of a day when
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ could get back together.
After hearing that sermon, the members of the Northwest Church of
Christ prayed the prayer that Jesus Himself first prayed in John 17 - a
prayer for oneness and unity.
Only blocks away from the Northwest Church of Christ building, the
Shoreline Christian Church had also been praying for a new vision and a
fresh beginning. They had solicited the help of George Johnson of the
Christian Evangelistic Association to study their congregation and make
a recommendation. He recommended that the Shoreline Christian Church
do what some might think was impossible - merge with the Northwest
Church of Christ. The elders of the two congregations soon began
discussing and praying about this possibility. And God made it
happen. Both groups overwhelmingly aggreed that uniting would be good
for our two congregations, and would enhance our witness to our
community.
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| The churches merged September 12, 2004. |
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