We are excited to welcome Lydia House Church into membership with the Alliance of Renewal Churches (ARC). Lydia House is a new church plant in St. Paul, MN, meeting in the home of Paul and Karen Anderson. Lydia House is one of four new church plants who are intending to join the ARC, along with new church plants in Tampa, Florida; Frisco, Texas; and Tempe, Arizona.

Paul Anderson (pictured left) writes, “We joined the ARC because these are the people we know, trust and want to run with. It made sense to us to connect with our friends. We believe at Lydia House that we know far more than what we are doing. So our messages have a strong applicational bent. We would rather have a sharing time about what God is saying to us and what we are going to do about it than have a teaching that we may or may not apply. The last few Sundays we have been sharing our dreams, interspersed with teaching, then praying for the person sharing. It is exciting to hear what God has put in the hearts of our friends. We will make a master-list of the dreams so we can pray for one another and encourage each other to take risks and keep on believing. I have shared with our Lydia House family that between the promise and the Promised Land of our God-appointed destiny is the desert, where we must continue to believe in what God has given to us despite the circumstances. When people are walking into their hand-crafted destinies, as we see people doing, size is not an issue. A church of twenty people with only half of them fulfilling their divine purpose is a strong church. Welcome to Lydia House!”

Welcome, Lydia House, to the ARC!