Serve — Local Mission

Loving this Great City

2011 Fall Festival Recap from Roswell Community Church on Vimeo.

At Roswell Community Church, we long to have an impact in our city that is redemptive, relational, strategic, and visual. We want to be the sort of place that if we were to close our doors overnight, there would be a felt loss among the people of Roswell because of the depth and the significance of our presence in our city. In an effort to reflect Jesus Christ and His Gospel in this way, we have set our focus on one street in Roswell that is afflicted with poverty. We are relatively small and incapable of changing an entire city, but we could change it a street at a time by engaging the community there in physical, spiritual, relational, and emotional restoration and transformation.

Why do we do this? Because the best proof of God’s love in us and for us is that we love others (1 John 4:11). Good news without good deeds is incomplete. The good deeds are part of the gospel. Jesus spent an enormous amount of time restoring things—giving sight to blind people, cleansing lepers, straightening crooked limbs, even restoring a dead child to her parents. The gospel is not only that God came as Jesus and died and rose again. The gospel is that God is dedicated to restoring a lost and broken world through his love. Acts of compassion can open the heart of a city.

Listen to an excerpt from Matthew’s sermon on Living OUT in 2010 where he announced our Love Roswell campaign HERE.

Check out the video recap from our first Fall Festival below!

Lowe Lane Launch on October 23 from Roswell Community Church on Vimeo.