By Ellis White, Senior Pastor Fifteen thousand churches closed in the United States last year. That’s 41 churches every single day. That number should stop us. Each one of those churches was more than a building. It was a well. A place where living water flowed—where people were baptized, marriages were restored, children were discipled, […]
Author: Pastor Ellis White
You Picked Up Your Phone…Then What?
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor Have you ever picked up your phone to check one thing—and resurfaced 27 minutes later wondering what just happened? You opened it to check the weather. Or respond to a text. Or look up one quick detail. And somehow you ended up in an entirely different corner of the internet. […]
Dying with Dignity?
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor Note: Pastor Ellis wrote this blog just before his grandmother passed away. Thank you for your continued prayers for him and his family. As I write this blog I’m in Ireland, sitting at the bedside of my 97-year-old grandmother. My late father was her only child, and so my sister […]
Walking Together Through Transition
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor The life of a church is shaped not only by sermons and programs, but by people who faithfully serve, often behind the scenes, in the lives of others. From time to time, those people step into new seasons, and it’s important that we walk through those transitions together with clarity, […]
When Christmas is Over but the Stress Isn’t
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor The Christmas decorations are still up, the tree needles are still in the carpet, and the credit card statement has already arrived…uninvited. December may be over, but the financial decisions we made during it are very much still with us. Somewhere between “It’s Christmas! It only happens once a year” […]
Reading the Bible Together in 2026
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor In the UK, Boxing Day, December 26, is a public holiday that follows Christmas Day. Traditionally, it’s a slower day: a pause after the celebration, marked by rest, long walks, and time with family. For me, it has always felt like a hinge moment—Christmas behind us, a new year quietly […]
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor There’s a reason we keep coming back to the story behind the songs at Christmas. These carols aren’t sentimental leftovers from another era. They are testimonies. They were written because something happened. Something that could not stay quiet. One of the clearest examples is “Go, Tell It on the Mountain”. […]
A Whisper of Revival in the UK
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor I wish you could have heard the way her college pastor told the story—slowly, gently, still moved by what God had done. A young female student in Oxford had grown up in the occult. Her health was unraveling. Her life felt fragmented and empty. She was searching for meaning anywhere […]
Why Worship Songs Repeat Themselves
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor If you’ve spent any time in church recently, you might have noticed something about newer worship songs: they tend to repeat themselves. Sometimes it’s a line sung several times in a row. Sometimes it’s a chorus that returns again and again. And if you grew up singing hymns that told […]
Why We Sing to God, Not Just About God
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor If you’ve been around church for a while, you’ve probably noticed that the songs our younger generation sing today sound a bit different from the ones we grew up with. Some are louder. Some repeat more. Some feel more like personal prayers than corporate declarations. And maybe, if you’re honest, […]