It is an honor and privilege to welcome Anthony Bowman and his amazing family to our Life Church staff team!

With nearly twelve years of worship leading experience in local churches plus studies at Cincinnati Christian University, Anthony is a down-to-earth guy with an irresistible passion for Christ.

Anthony will lead our Band, oversee all aspects of Worship Production at our Midland and Saginaw campuses as well as our Central Operations volunteers during weekday office hours.

He can play just about any instrument you put in front of him: guitar, bass, piano, drums, ukelele, mandolin, and even a little bit of banjo (although that fifth string trips him up)!

Anthony and his wife Grace are celebrating 10 years of marriage this September as they raise three amazing kiddo's: Iraela, Ember and Cyrus.

Please help us welcome Anthony on his first official morning with us on Sunday, March 28th!

Everyone
wants to belong.

You belong here.

At Life Church, we’re not here to judge or tear anyone down.

Our church exists to build people up with the hope and love of God.

You should know:
No matter who you are or where you’ve been, you’re welcome here!

As God has blessed our church family with tremendous growth in such a short amount of time, we’ve learned that with an increase of people calling Life Church ‘home’ comes an increase in the complexity with improving our internal ministry systems to serve more people.

Making It Better

Over the past couple of months, Life Church has made strong internal improvements and changes to ensure greater ministry health going forward.

One example is Life Church’s new Financial Systems overseen by Sommerville & Associates, P.C. and pending accreditation with the ECFA.

We believe in transparency.

Our robust new financial systems serve to provide donors with an increased sense of comfort and trust as we continue loving and serving our region in Jesus’ Name.

Honor & Integrity

Another example is in the area of ministry staffing.

We have revamped all our internal policies and procedures to create a positive, gospel-centered work environment with clear, written expectations and accountability for all ministry staff including:

• a Character Clause on Biblical Qualifications for Staff: It is a privilege to serve in the local church and we will be held accountable.

• a revised Integrity Clause for Post-Employment Activities: For a period of twelve months, both paid and unpaid staff will walk in integrity and be above reproach by not serving in a similar church role within 90 driving miles of any Life Church campus. Lacking integrity in this area of biblical leadership only serves to stir up division, confusion, and harm to the local church they just left and the larger Body of Christ.

• No Gossip Policy: Gossip is defined as sharing a problem or a negative with someone not in a position to fix it. Sharing a negative “up” to someone who can fix the situation is not gossip; that is leadership integrity and having your teammate’s back! Gossip will not be tolerated and can lead to termination of employment.

• Pro-Team Policy: In all public and private communications (in person, groups, social media, etc), all staff and their spouses are expected to reflect and represent the radical love of Jesus Christ, to always believe the best and not assume the worst about people, and to represent Life Church and its employees and church family with honor and integrity.

COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS

In cooperation with Midland Center for the Arts, our 9:30am Midland Campus worship gatherings on Sundays will include the following safety protocols:

• 100% Face Masks for everyone at all times inside the building
  

• Social-distanced seating in the theater (with 400 seats to choose from, this is easy to do!)
  

• All Church Volunteers and Guests will CHECK-IN via Digital Kiosks as they arrive & enter the Front Lobby.

  In the event of COVID contact, Digital Check-Ins will allow our team to conduct Contact Tracing.

Thank you all for understanding, cooperating, and loving thy neighbor.

We're excited for this coming Sunday at 9:30am and we believe that the best is yet to come!

#YouBelongHere #SafetyFirst