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A word from David Boyd, one of the elders at For­est Home:

Wel­come to

For­est Home Church

Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man  who takes refuge in him.  Ps 34:8

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

And those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, LORD, have not for­saken those who seek You.

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion! Declare His deeds among the peo­ple.   Ps 9:9‑11

Wel­come to:

an oasis of refuge

an assem­bly of praise

a com­mu­nity of prayer

a place of equipping

a fel­low­ship of service

Thank you for vis­it­ing our site.  We are located in the hills of what was once rural Williamson County.   Please con­sider com­ing to wor­ship with us.  Our time together is a procla­ma­tion of the won­drous deeds of our God and the redemp­tive love of his Son. Our God is alive and active.  He did not step aside to see what man the crea­ture would do with his truths, his son, his love, his grace but rather he still seeks us and equips us for greater love and ser­vice to him.  He is to be revered, He is wor­thy, He is  pow­er­ful!  We are awed by and give rev­er­ence to his power,  We are daz­zled by his purity, we are com­pelled by his words of grace.  We draw close to him, we want to learn from and of him.  We trea­sure his promises of for­give­ness, we seek to emu­late and serve.

Every gath­er­ing is an oppor­tu­nity to draw close to the true God of the uni­verse,  Jesus Christ God incar­nate,  and His Holy Spirit.  If your time with us (either brows­ing this web­site or vis­it­ing in per­son) has in some way helped you see him more clearly, to par­tic­i­pate in praise to Him, to be equipped to resist the wiles of the devil, to expe­ri­ence his for­give­ness, to want to learn more of his ways, then the Lord is to be praised;  your time has not been wasted nor our ser­vice to Him with­out fruit.

On the other hand if such was not your expe­ri­ence, it is due in whole to the lim­i­ta­tions of us his ser­vants and we ask your forgiveness.

Our Her­itage

Our fel­low­ship is rooted in the grace and love of the Lord and his promises.  We are part of the holy  catholic (uni­ver­sal) church. We declare fel­low­ship with all who pro­claim God as Sov­er­eign, Jesus as Lord and the Spirit alive and active equip­ping the soul to his ser­vice.  Yet in specifics we are evan­gel­i­cal in nature and have a his­tor­i­cal her­itage in the tra­di­tion of the “churches of Christ”.  We strive to exer­cise our faith in man­ners we see exem­pli­fied in the Bible.  This tra­di­tion was birthed from the “restora­tion move­ment” of the 19th cen­tury through the spir­i­tual lead­er­ship of Chris­t­ian thinkers and evan­ge­lists Thomas and Alexan­der Camp­bell and Bar­ton W Stone, with a plea of unity and “Chris­tians only”.  In polity churches of Christ are a loose orga­ni­za­tion of locally inde­pen­dent con­gre­ga­tions, in the sense that we are locally autonomous with lead­er­ship derived through the Lord him­self and the guid­ance of local elder/shepherds.   We share much in com­mon with the Inde­pen­dent Chris­t­ian churches.   If you are famil­iar with these fel­low­ships you will see sim­i­lar­i­ties and dif­fer­ences among the congregations.

Our Wor­ship

At For­est Home in our cor­po­rate wor­ship we endeavor to show:

God’s per­son rev­er­enced:

Our songs, read­ings and respon­sive read­ings bear focus to our faith in his majesty, holi­ness, purity and love for his cre­ation.  We affirm his promises to his chil­dren through read­ings and song.  We pro­claim his love and uni­ver­sal call of redemp­tion to man his creation.

Our sin acknowl­edged and his words of for­give­ness uttered:

We are sin­ful by nature but redeemed by grace.  To acknowl­edge our fail­ings and hear his for­give­ness allows us to draw close to Him.

Jesus life, sac­ri­fice and redemp­tion celebrated:

Again our singing, scrip­tures and reg­u­lar weekly cel­e­bra­tion of the Lord’s sup­per, the Eucharist,  call to our minds his pow­er­ful awe­some lov­ing sac­ri­fice and call us to respond in love to his inde­scrib­able gift. We cel­e­brate with a vic­to­ri­ous Lord, one who has won the vic­tory over death and sin.  There is power in the cel­e­bra­tion of the Lord’s Supper.

Holy Bible trea­sured:

It is the inspired word of God.  Through it we come to learn of God and his plan for us his cre­ation.  We read it, we respect its author­ity, we pro­claim its truths in mes­sages weekly. Our classes are designed to lead each per­son to a greater under­stand­ing of God’s will for our lives and equip us to serve him more effec­tively, adult and child alike.

God entreated in prayer:

For for­give­ness, for praise, for inter­ces­sion we offer prayers to the Sov­er­eign of the uni­verse and invoke his divine lead­er­ship in our activities.

Each Chris­t­ian and seeker respected and encour­aged:

God’s sec­ond great­est com­mand­ment is to love our neigh­bor as our­selves.  We encour­age each mem­ber to be there for each other.  Our “fam­ily time” near the con­clu­sion of each wor­ship, fel­low­ship meals each Wednes­day, young mar­rieds’ meet­ings, youth activ­i­ties, and retreats all are aimed toward in ful­fill­ing this mission.

God desires that all of us be in close fel­low­ship with him and declare Jesus as his Son.

This is not our mis­sion; it’s His mis­sion for us.

Whether you are a faith­ful Chris­t­ian vis­it­ing with us or some­one seek­ing what God desires for your life and need assis­tance in learn­ing of him,  even some­one just won­der­ing what we are about,  it is our hope that he will use us as min­is­ter­ing ser­vants to assist you.

We com­mit to help­ing you real­ize his goals for your life.

Thank you for par­tic­i­pat­ing with us.