Launch Team Update

Mercy Hill's "launch team" is a group of people who are committed to helping us launch weekly worship services in the fall. 

We have also called this gathering a beta version of our small group ministry, our first "Crowded House," because we have some elements of sharing life together (we eat together every week, for example) and living out the Gospel with one another.

As of a few weeks ago, the Launch Team has sharpened it's focus in response to requests from some members of our team who had been asking for some specific guidance on just how--specifically, how?--to live out a missional Christian life.

We were asked, "Can you give us some practical steps?" Below, we'll describe what kinds of changes we've been making over the past several weeks.

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Final Preview Service!

This past Sunday, over 50 people gathered as Mercy Hill held its final preview service at Rowan University. We were led in worship by Lou Ciavolella and a team composed of other volunteer musicians. 

Pastor Phil Henry delivered a message from 2 Peter 1 entitled "You Must Grow." Click here to listen to this sermon online as well as view a video excerpt from the service.

Also, new pictures have been added here to document our day together. 

As we look back on these past 4 preview services, we sense God moving us into a new stage of church planting and preparing us for launching a weekly worship service in the Fall.

New Worship Time

This Sunday Mercy Hill will gather for our final worship service.

As was mentioned last month, our service time will change this Sunday. We will meet at 10:45am. However, the location is the same: Boyd Recital Hall, on campus at Rowan. For directions, click here.

We're looking forward to gathering for worship one final time this Spring before moving into the summer, when we will focus on developing our small groups, called missional communities, or "crowded houses."

We will have a great team of players, some of whom helped us last month (Marc, vocals) and some of whom are new to our community (Greg, drums; Dan, piano). Our worship leader this month will be Lou Ciavolella, who attends Covenant PCA in Cherry Hill.

Phil will preach a sermon on the subject of what it means to grow as a Christian. This should be a helpful message for both believers, seekers, and not-yet Christians. Please make a point to invite your friends; if you have invited them before, don't hesitate to invite them again.

For your use, we've updated the PDF invitation for you to use. Go to our downloads page here to get it.