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Eastside Middle School in Mount Washington is transformed into Southeast’s Bullitt County Campus each weekend.
Different but the Same While it was announced after the Shelby County Campus, the Bullitt County Campus launched first—this past October 4. “It was just this great thing where it was clear that God was working in Bullitt County,” Campus Pastor Heath Barth said, pointing to that Fall 2019 Watch Party at
It opened its first portable campus—at Eastside Middle School just up the road from Pleasant Grove Elementary. “It allows us to move more quickly, it allows us to be flexible, and it really allows us to respond faster to what we feel like the Spirit is calling us to do,” Heath said.
Pleasant Grove Elementary
The school is essentially
School in Mount Washington.
transformed into a Southeast
“In the first two hours that the signup was (live), we had 200 people,” he said. More impressive to Heath—the Community Pastor for the area at the time— was the number of people seeking to engage. “What was fascinating was how many people were looking to connect and serve in their community,” he said. Wanting to answer the Holy Spirit’s call as quickly as possible and having a good relationship with the local school system,
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Southeast opted for a different type of campus.
campus each weekend. “Our goal is to give you the Southeast experience and to make it as close to another campus as possible,” Heath said. The Bullitt County Campus—announced in December 2019—was to launch on Easter Sunday 2020. Just weeks before the launch, however, in-person gatherings were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our people were excited,” Heath said. “The week we wound up not hosting services because
