“When someone treats my child like they are special, that to me just makes me want to shout to the world what is going on there. Every church needs to see what Prestonwood is doing!” —Kari Rhew

The additional space provided by the Saunders Children’s Building allows us to reach more families, and over the summer some 220 children were baptized! And the incredible resources for our Special Needs Ministry allow it to touch more lives than ever before.

Just recently, the Rhew family was in town visiting relatives and decided to attend Prestonwood. They had heard about the Special Needs Ministry. As soon as they walked through the front doors they were made to feel at home, said Kari Rhew of her husband and two sons. The boys, 19-months-old and 4-years-old, were completely at ease as soon as they entered the Special Needs Ministry suite.

“It didn’t look like an afterthought,” Kari said. “At so many churches, when it comes to Special Needs it’s like ‘this is an empty room, just bring some toys and put them in there.’ At Prestonwood, everything looked like it was thought out.

“And we didn’t have to explain much about our sons’ needs,” she said of her boys, one of whom has been diagnosed with autism and the other who is exhibiting the same behavior. “The people at Prestonwood got it.”

Kari said her youngest son still screams when he goes to the nursery at her home church. However, when she and her husband arrived to pick up the boys after Worship Service at Prestonwood, neither of the boys wanted to leave.

“They were in a sensory room and they were playing and laughing,” she said. “When we said it was time to leave, they begged to stay.”

When they left, Kari said their oldest son said something he’s never said before.

“He said, ‘Jesus is at church,’” Kari said. “We couldn’t believe that something that we had worked so hard to explain to him had clicked in one Sunday at a church that understood him. He was finally able to make that connection. When someone treats my child like they are special, that to me just makes me want to shout to the world what is going on there. Every church needs to see what Prestonwood is doing!”

As we celebrated the recent Three-Year Anniversary of Prestonwood North Campus, it was incredible to see how far the Lord has brought us. It’s amazing to consider the remarkable growth we have witnessed and the joy we’ve experienced as we’ve seen so many come to faith in Christ.

In the past year, we have added 333 new members and have baptized 136. And just since Memorial Day, we saw 214 people make decisions for Christ and 52 were baptized!

Our church family is committed to reaching the U.S. Highway 380 Corridor with the life-transforming Gospel. We pray that as we minister in this flourishing area, many more will come to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.                                                        
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Upgraded equipment and renovation of space for our Media Ministries allow us to enhance worship on our campuses and truly allows us to connect as a church family through live simulcast capabilities. Outside the walls of our church, the updated technology helps us fulfill our mission of “using the most effective means to impact the world, making a positive difference in this generation.”

Our technological advances, including High Definition, help extend the Gospel message locally and internationally. The incredible passion of our people for the Word of God was captured in High Definition as they ministered in London and Romania just this summer.

At any given moment, the message from the Prestonwood pulpit is available throughout the world on radio, TV and the Internet.

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