The cool part of the story is their group at Cornerstone is praying, ‘Lord, fill this house’ we’re praying, ‘Lord, give us a place to gather.’ Those prayers collided in heaven.” “She knew it was an aging congregation,” Reno said of Marable. Marable told her daughter to suggest that the two preachers meet.įord said the former member of his church was still involved in a prison ministry that Cornerstone supports. Jerene Marable, who had previously attended Cornerstone Bible Church, had a daughter, Ginger Johnson, on The Summit’s core team. We couldn’t find an open door from the Lord for months.” “There were opportunities, but everything was too expensive and limited in space. “We had looked for months and months and months,” Reno said. The 34-year-old Reno became part of a team to plant The Summit Church in Conway. The Summit started 16 years ago in North Little Rock, and a lot of families from Conway were driving to church there, Reno said. Small groups had been meeting for a year in various homes, Reno said. While the Cornerstone congregation was praying and waiting for an answer, The Summit core team was looking all over Conway for a building. The thought was, “We just haven’t quite hit it, yet. The church participated in outreach projects, hoping for a revival. “The facilities are great, and the facility will accommodate 300 people comfortably, and there we are with 30 to 40 people week after week.” “As long as three years ago, we had a few of us from Cornerstone really just begin to pray, ‘Look, we don’t get it,’” Ford said, laughing. The faithful flock had a great attitude, Ford said. “Since I’ve been there, it’s fluctuated anywhere from 30 to 40. When I got there, my three kids were the only ones,” he said. It’s an older congregation we didn’t have any kids, any small children. The 50-year-old Ford, recently retired from Acxiom Corp., had been a member of Cornerstone Bible Church on Dave Ward Drive for about seven years and had been lead pastor for the past five. I say out of left field - we know it was divine intervention,” Ford said.
“It’s very unheard of, very unheard of,” Reno said. The Conway pastors’ prayers were answered in a way that surprised them both.Ĭornerstone Bible Church simply gave its debt-free, 41-year-old church to the new kid on the block, and its members were absorbed by The Summit. Two Conway preachers praying for different needs got just what they wanted by joining together.Ĭornerstone Bible Church pastor Mike Ford and his congregation had prayed for years for an infusion of new members The Summit Church in Conway’s lead pastor, Kyle Reno, and his team had prayed for months to find a building for its new location.
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