Campus Pastor Marc Rylander
meets with ministry staff members.
Staff members participate in a
community outreach event.
Church family celebrates Habitat
for Humanity home dedication.
Setup and teardown team signs foundation at new site.
Marc Rylander remembers driving to Prosper with Pastor
Jack Graham in the birthing season of the vision for a second
campus and looking north, south, east and west and seeing
nothing but barren land. But as Pastor Graham and church
leaders began to pray and do research, they saw all the
promise of Isaiah 43:19: Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it
springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the
wilderness and rivers in the desert.
“The excitement
of the building is
there, yes, but the
excitement of the
potential of what
God is going to do
is captivating.”
“Our Pastor and church leaders saw it despite barren lands; despite roads
that had not been cut; despite people who had not moved here,” said Marc,
the newly named Campus Pastor at Prestonwood North. “Now, the exciting
thing is our people see it. As they walk out of Prosper High School on
Sunday morning and look across the parking lot and a few open fields, they
can see a building popping up on the horizon.
“The excitement of the building is there, yes, but the excitement of the
potential of what God is going to do is captivating.”
With a population explosion well on its way and experts’ forecast that the
U.S. Highway 380 Corridor will become one of the region’s “next shopping
meccas,” the possibilities are endless.
“At the close of this year, as we worship in the new facility and as we grow
and as this community grows, it’s going to be like a prairie fire that the
Spirit of God is igniting in this region,” Pastor
Graham said when he introduced Marc as
Campus Pastor. “I believe Marc is made for
this and made for you and this ministry. It’s
going to be exciting because he’s going to
throw kerosene on this prairie fire we’ve got
going out here.”
Minister of Spiritual Development
Bill Borinstein said there’s an “excited
anticipation” among the church family in
these days. “With the naming of Marc as
Campus Pastor, there’s an amazing excitement
about all that will happen with this church that literally started in homes
with just a few people, then went into the school, and now we’ve started
seeing the worship center filling up,” he said.
As church leaders look back, it’s easy to see that from the very beginning
there has been an incredible sense of belonging for the people who have
come to call Prestonwood North their home.
“We are building so much more than a building or a place for people to
come and worship,” said Student Minister Carter Morris. “Our people are
starting to be identified as followers of Christ. And there is this sense of,
‘Wow. I want to be part of this because I’ve seen lives changed.’
“We are truly building a community of fellowship and a community of
believers that is having an eternal impact on this community.”
