Making Disciples at The Factory Church the Other Six Days

By Cyndi Braun

Established in 2014, The Factory Church is passionate about making disciples and being the church the other six days. While Sunday services offer authentic worship and biblical teaching, The Factory desires to make disciples and equip them to share their faith with a world desperate for truth and the saving power of Christ Jesus. Dont be satisfied with just going to church. BE the church the other six days.

Planting a New Church
After spending many years as a youth minister and worship pastor, Keith Norman began to feel a calling to pastor a church. One night while studying the Bible, he thought about how the first Christians fed the poor, cared for orphans and widows, loved their fellow man, and were passionate about sharing the gospel of Christ, every day of the week. It was never about just Sunday. He wondered why modern churches couldnt be more like that early church.

Pastor Keith began to meet with a small group of people in his home, including his wife Lucille, daughter Jala, and son Blake. He shared his vision of a nondenominational, racially diverse church that makes disciples for Christ and serves others.

From that small group, the church has grown steadily, and it moved to its current location in January 2015. The Factory now offers three services every Sunday while helping the needy in the Woodstock area and beyond.

What Makes The Factory Unique?
In factories, raw materials are transformed into new products with specific purposes in mind. The same is true at The Factory Church where God transforms people, helping them grow in their relationship with Christ. At factories, each employee has a specific job to do. Similarly, Christians are expected to continue Christs work on earth.

Pastor Keith preaches that Christians should love all people, spread the hope and joy that Jesus offers, and serve the poor. The Factory believes in sharing a genuine love of Christ by worshipping with people who dont look the same or vote the same and by serving others.

All ethnic groups, all faiths, even non-Christians, are welcome at The Factory.
At the end of the day, if you have a pulse, we really want you here, said Pastor Keith, laughing. Jesus loved people that other people wouldnt love. He had compassion for everyone.

Sunday + the Other Six Days
While the worship team offers an amazing Sunday service, the Church emphasizes living out the faith the other six days of the week.

Ive done a series called On. That means getting up in the morning, reading, praying, treating the kids a certain way, treating your spouse a certain way. Not just turning your Christianity on from 9-11 Sunday morning, said Pastor Keith. If youre part of the Bible Belt, you probably learned religion. You put on your nice clothes on Sunday, and you go to a church where everybody looks like you. When you finish, you go out to eat, then you go home and watch football. You dont think about refugees or care about poor people, or even your rich neighbor.
Pastor Keith encourages church members to practice their faith throughout the week and guides them in specific areas in which they can help the poor.

One of the Churchs primary focuses is providing clean water to poor villages in Africa. During a mission trip to Tanzania in 2009, Pastor Keith was shocked to see the villagers drinking filthy water. He decided to raise money to build a well to provide clean water to that village, specifically to benefit children in an orphanage. Since then, The Factory has constructed eight wells in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. The wells are dug in coordination with village churches.
In addition to the wells, The Factory Church provides support to feed about 200 orphans at a Tanzania orphanage each Saturday and has recently partnered with an organization in Uganda to build a church for worship services and community use.

Locally, the Church offers lunch the first Saturday of the month for people who are homeless or nearly homeless. They also conduct regular food drives to provide additional help to those
in need.

Join The Factory
After attending services at The Factory, many people feel touched by the Holy Spirit. The message, the music, and the fellowship bring people together in a way that leads them to follow Jesus. If youre interested in the other six days, join The Factory this Sunday.

Service Times
8:00am,
10:00am,
and Noon

9872 Main Street
Woodstock, GA
770-517-7265

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