LifePoint Story
Early Days
The
genesis of LifePoint occurred when God spoke to people about a church
north of the I-270 loop in Columbus, OH. Jersey Baptist Church on the
east side of the city and Metro Columbus Baptist Association decided to
partner together to advance God’s Kingdom here. Together, they called
Dean and Angie Fulks in September of 2003 and asked them to begin to
pray. Over the next few months, God gathered a leadership team and in
March of 2004, 14 people gathered at a home in Lewis Center for a Bible
study that began LifePoint Church. We met monthly for the next four
months until we outgrew a house with 65 people in July. After a couple
of months of preview worship gatherings, we began meeting weekly in
October 2004 at the Westerville Community Center on Sunday nights
because WCC was not open on Sunday mornings. By the fall of 2005, we
had about 110 people attending each week, we had just taken our first
international missions trip to Honduras, and had 4 different lifegroups
meeting weekly. We were focused in those early days on the kind of
church we wanted to be…one that focused on our relationship with God
without the extra rules and keeping our relationships with each other
healthy. We wanted a church where everyone sensed that they belong and
a place where they believed they could become all that God intended.
Two Campuses
In
the winter of 2005, we were approached by the Delaware Baptist Church
about a potential merger. After a few months of meeting and praying
together, their church body officially voted to merge into LifePoint on
the 10th of February 2006. This officially started our two campus
journey. We met on our first Sunday morning there with 29 people, on
what has officially become our north campus. We closed 2006 by officially constituting as a church. In the fall of 2008,
Centerpoint Church graciously invited us to use their facilities on
Sunday evenings so we began meeting there in October.
Currently
As
of now, we are a church of approximately 400 in attendance. We have 18
LifeGroups that meet in Lewis Center, Delaware, Westerville, Powell and
Worthington with about 325 people involved. We want LifePoint to be a
relevant place of worship in our community north of the 270 loop, where
people’s lives really do change and they attend because they want to
not because they feel guilty if they don’t. We would love for you to
become part of our story…