Resurrection Church celebrates first anniversary
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Resurrection Church (shown above, right) will celebrate its first anniversary Sunday, September 19. The church is led by Pastor David Killlingsworth (shown above, left).
September 15, 2021
Ezra DeVore
Resurrection Church, located just south of Cassville on Highway 112, will be celebrating its one year anniversary on Sunday, September 19. However, this church, unlike others in the area, is actually a ‘replant.’ Lead Pastor David Killingsworth and his team are trying to “plant a church that will plant churches,” and possibly rebrand churches that have “come to the end of their season, rather than closing those buildings up and walking away.”
John Atchley, founder of the previous church in the same location, Spiritual Streams (founded in 1980), passed away in 2003. Killingsworth felt this could be a time of rejuvenation. Killingsworth, of Miami, Oklahoma, is working on a PhD in Apologetics at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, and lives just north of Berryville, Arkansas. Killingsworth has extensive experience in church leadership from the 23 years he spent as the pastor of Forerunner House of Prayer in Green Forest, Arkansas.
Resurrection Church is the same denomination as its predecessor, however, instead of “pure Pentecostal,” Killingsworth affirmed that “in some areas, because of my background and my education, I’m going to emphasize the Perseverance of the Saints.”
“During the time everything was shut down for Covid last year, we were feeling like planting a new church here. We got the approval of the owners (The Church of God of the Apostolic Faith) and decided when things started opening back up, we would begin with prayer meetings on Sunday night. We did that last June.”
However, the spirit of Resurrection’s predecessor isn’t gone.
“We do have many people (on the Leadership team) with Resurrection who were involved with Spiritual Streams.”
The church also plans to launch a Youth Ministry in late October, but that’s not where Killingsworth’s plans end. Over the next twenty years or so, he plans to “plant seven or eight more churches,” and even “spend more time teaching in a Bible college.”
“The thing we say is, ‘This, we do for the gospel’s sake.’ Whatever we are going to involve ourselves in, is going to be for the purpose of evangelism. Everything we do runs through that filter,” Killingsworth said.
Killingsworth works as a CPA in Berryville and refuses to take a salary from the church.
Resurrection Church will be celebrating their one year anniversary on Sunday, September 19, at 10 a.m. with Craig Rogers as the service’s evangelist and music led by Zack Hodgson.
Ezra DeVore
Resurrection Church, located just south of Cassville on Highway 112, will be celebrating its one year anniversary on Sunday, September 19. However, this church, unlike others in the area, is actually a ‘replant.’ Lead Pastor David Killingsworth and his team are trying to “plant a church that will plant churches,” and possibly rebrand churches that have “come to the end of their season, rather than closing those buildings up and walking away.”
John Atchley, founder of the previous church in the same location, Spiritual Streams (founded in 1980), passed away in 2003. Killingsworth felt this could be a time of rejuvenation. Killingsworth, of Miami, Oklahoma, is working on a PhD in Apologetics at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, and lives just north of Berryville, Arkansas. Killingsworth has extensive experience in church leadership from the 23 years he spent as the pastor of Forerunner House of Prayer in Green Forest, Arkansas.
Resurrection Church is the same denomination as its predecessor, however, instead of “pure Pentecostal,” Killingsworth affirmed that “in some areas, because of my background and my education, I’m going to emphasize the Perseverance of the Saints.”
“During the time everything was shut down for Covid last year, we were feeling like planting a new church here. We got the approval of the owners (The Church of God of the Apostolic Faith) and decided when things started opening back up, we would begin with prayer meetings on Sunday night. We did that last June.”
However, the spirit of Resurrection’s predecessor isn’t gone.
“We do have many people (on the Leadership team) with Resurrection who were involved with Spiritual Streams.”
The church also plans to launch a Youth Ministry in late October, but that’s not where Killingsworth’s plans end. Over the next twenty years or so, he plans to “plant seven or eight more churches,” and even “spend more time teaching in a Bible college.”
“The thing we say is, ‘This, we do for the gospel’s sake.’ Whatever we are going to involve ourselves in, is going to be for the purpose of evangelism. Everything we do runs through that filter,” Killingsworth said.
Killingsworth works as a CPA in Berryville and refuses to take a salary from the church.
Resurrection Church will be celebrating their one year anniversary on Sunday, September 19, at 10 a.m. with Craig Rogers as the service’s evangelist and music led by Zack Hodgson.
