The Gospel Marches On

Zach Fallon

But the word of God increased and multiplied.

- Acts 12:24

As our time in Wheaton with our beloved College Church family comes to a close Christine and I wish to express our joyful gratitude to God and to you all for the high privilege of serving as a pastor among you. Once upon a time, in a different season of life, I never imagined that I would ever be a pastor in the local church. Yet now, after five years of growing alongside our beloved church family here in Wheaton, I can hardly dream up a calling that I would rather pursue in this brief and momentary life. Such has been the joy we have experienced in sharing in Christ together with you all. As we make this move down to Atlanta, we depart with such loving affection in our hearts for you all and a hopeful desire to hear of your continued faith in the days ahead as Christ continues to be formed in you.

And yet before God through much prayer we acknowledge that our time of transition has indeed come. We are confident that we have seen his providential hand at work in our lives, uniquely leading us to the good works that he has prepared for us to walk in for the good of his church and the glory of his name. As we have observed the Lord's leading, it has also seemed good to our elders that we should be sent out as the first non-local church plant. Such is the confidence we have together in the Lord's leading and such is our expectation that the Lord will do wonderfully transformative things in us and through us in the days and months and years ahead as he sees fit.

And so, as it has been since the day of Pentecost until now, we depart from those whom we love in faith, believing that this message of the gospel that we have so joyfully received is so irrepressibly glorious, so transformatively powerful, so worthy of our proclamation, that whatever loss we may experience in our brief life pales in comparison to the surpassing gain we have come to know in Christ. It is our eager and prayerful expectation, therefore, that as our church family here in

Wheaton continues in faithfulness to the gospel, so too the gospel will march on through us to the people of South Metro Atlanta and beyond.

We ask only that you will continue to hold us in your prayers, to see us as an extension of your very heart, to think of us as family members who have gone away for a little while to fulfill a task that the Father has assigned. In all the ways that matter most we are with you, College Church, in heart and soul and we are eager to make you all proud of us as we hold fast to those convictions and commitments that have united us.

Please do stay in touch. Your genuine interest in our work and correspondences will do more good to refresh our souls than you might ever know. You can reach Christine and me at: zcfallon@ gmail.com.

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Yours in Christ,

Pastor Zach