We work at Sandals Church in California. Sandals is a 30,000 member church with 14 campuses in California and we love this place. We are senior managers over the worship team which has nealry 400 volunteers and 20 staff. We've been at Sandals for 4 years and it's just beautiful...but we're feeling the call of God to be home closer to family and to plant this church God has placed on our hearts.
We imagine a beautiful, God breathed church that is passionate about loving and ministering to the heart of God through worship and surrender. A church where our prayer is simple - God, let our lives be worship. A church where the presence of God is overwhelming and unrelenting. We’ve given this church a name. Bloom Co, because to bloom means to flourish and come into full beauty and the Co is short for community, one that is alluring, immersive and inviting.
We want to invite people into a life of becoming more like Jesus, into a community that searches for and releases beauty, into a community that values simplicity and into a community that desires to let our lives, every part, be worship. In every day moments; in the middle of the night with a crying baby or the commute to work on Monday morning, in helping an elderly neighbor or giving when it hurts, we want our lives to be worship.
The church God has placed inside of us has intimate, addictive, life changing worship infused with Heaven that seeks with a desperation to minister to the heart of God and glorify Him above all else. It will be ‘in the round’ with a desire to immerse people into an encounter with the Living God through songs, through the word of God and through eating and drinking together at the table. In all of these things, we want to relentlessly pursue the presence of God and experience the power of The Holy Spirit.