The Cave
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The building was our former sanctuary and has been used over the last few years sparingly for outreach and to house the Joseph Storehouse Food Bank. We will continue to use a portion of the building as a food bank, but are excited to open the main sanctuary as a place to gather youth for an experience with God on a regular basis. It will be a place for the Overcoming Generation Church to gather for services, prayer, concerts, dramas, and parties.
When the construction of our Food Bank portion is completed, we envision using the dining area as a youth center, internet café, training center, and for the occasional feeding of our less fortunate neighbors.
We are still in construction and remodel mode, but feel to get started with releasing the sounds of heaven over our city, so consider your self invited.
The Cave
Why is it named the cave?
It is short for the Cave of Adullam, a name the Lord put on my heart 8 years ago when I was the youth pastor. I wanted to write “Welcome to the Cave of Adullum” over the door, but at that time I knew there was no way we were going to call our sanctuary the Cave. The time has come for that “God thought” to become a reality.
A cave in the natural is also a place of security, rest, habitation, storage of riches and provisions; a place where men of God were led to receive visions and a Word of God. It is a place of change, where we are all drawn (our own spiritual Cave of Adullam) to be transformed. Don’t forget that Jesus was resurrected from a Cave also.
If you remember, the Cave Adullam is the place where a rag tag group of men and their families (outcast, law breakers, and the poor) hid out with King David to be trained and taught in the ways of warfare and integrity.
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him. And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
(1 Samuel 22:1-2 KJV)
David himself was burdened, hunted, unjustly persecuted, penniless, and in need of help and assistance. God faithfully guided deadbeats, troublemakers and whiners to him at the cave Adullam, where he was hiding. As the losers arrive at David’s side, it didn’t look like much of an answer to David, but it was God’s Plan.
Whatever they were before, these men change when they stay in the Cave with David. A rag-tag group of malcontents become an elite force of Kingdom warriors and giant killers. Losers and castoffs are transformed into courageous champions, who run through the enemies forces and jump over his walls and subdue other kingdoms.
The Cave will not be church as normal, it may eventually not look, feel, or sound like our current church, for it is a place of grace, where people are transformed in God’s Spirit and Power, as he calls them from the darkness into His glorious light.
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