Crescent City Rock Mission, Metairie

Jim Louviere, Church Planter

Matthew 7:24 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them will be like a sensible man who built his house on the rock…”

Pastor Jim Louviere points out that New Orleans, like so much of Louisiana, “has religious culture where many claim to believe in God, but don’t’ know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.”  Their foundation is built on shaky ground rather than on Jesus, the Solid Rock; they are part of the many faces of Louisiana missions.  The mission statement at Crescent City Rock is “We exist to help people find a life that rocks with purpose built on The Rock of Christ.”

This fifteen-month old church plant reaches a neighborhood in Jefferson Parish that has no Southern Baptist church.  Block parties, back-to-school outreach, and Sharing the Peace of Jesus events provided avenues of ministry in preparation for church launch on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010, resulting in more than 200 attending worship and 60 decisions for Christ.

As we pray for Crescent City and Pastor Jim, let’s pray for other similar church plants.  Pray for:

• Leadership teams to clearly know God’s direction in initial works;
• Effective follow-up from Launch Sunday;
• New people to hunger for God and grow in their desire to live out their purpose for God; and
• Balance between the many responsibilities of bivocational church planters like Pastor Jim.

Twenty-six new church starts were begun in Louisiana in 2009.  Our financial gifts to the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering make it possible to begin more each year.