Our church's check-in systems for preschoolers, children, and students are designed and maintained by Fellowship Technologies. Their online resources seamlessly coordinates the info we gather through those check-in systems to our church management systems. It's a pretty amazing system.
All of our volunteers working with preschool, children, and students go through a screening process that includes criminal background checks. We will not apologize for being very careful with YOUR children and who we allow to work with YOUR children.
Our church is built around a small group discipleship model. We call our small groups "Life Groups." Many among us believe that Life Groups are hands-down the best part of G8way!
Our worship team practices at least twice each week... once on a weeknight and again on Sunday mornings. If you arrive early on a Sunday morning and find the tensa-barriers in front of the doors, it's because they're putting the final touches on that morning's service.
Speaking of worship, many of you ask who our biggest influences in our song selections... By far, it would have to be the Hillsong Church. If you wanna have an idea of what our team will sing this Sunday, pick up (or download) a Hillsong United CD. Chances are you'll hear some of those songs on Sunday. Other artists/worship leaders we really like include Fee, Chris Tomlin, Phil Wickham, Jesus Culture, and Carlos Whittaker.
Why Pikeville, NC? Glad you asked! First, we love Pikeville (remember, we actually began here nearly 4 years ago, and God has given us a passion for people in Wayne County, especially this community). Second, Pikeville puts us in close proximity to two growing elementary schools (Northeast and Northwest) a rapidly growing middle school (Norwayne), and one of the largest high schools in Wayne County (C.B. Aycock). Third, our proximity to I-795 gives us a natural corridor for continued growth from both Goldsboro and Wilson. Yep, we love the Kingdom Potential our position in Pikeville brings!
