Hey everyone! I'm sorry that our monthly email update has been delayed by several days, but between moving into our long-term rental and most of the family fighting sickness over the last few weeks, so this update has been delayed...but that said, we have been in El Paso for over a month now! As April began, we started doing the "missional work" of intentional hospitality by trying to have people come over for dinner at least once a week and "prayer cycling." That's what we a

This update was sent to our email list on 4/1/2026 Wow! It's so hard to believe how far we have come in just nine months time! The first time I sent one of these monthly mission updates out, we had just returned to Virginia from our El Paso Vision Trip a couple of weeks before. At that time, we still had not been assessed by Send Network, my two oldest kids hadn't graduated high school, and I was not yet ordained as a minister of the Gospel by the leadership at Westlake. It's

This update was sent to our email list on 3/2/2026 I can’t believe I am saying this, but it is March 2nd! As far back as January of last year, we had identified “March 2026” as the time we would be packing up a U-Haul and moving to El Paso, so it is almost surreal that we are finally in the month of our move. March also marks nearly three years since we really began this process in earnest, when Patricia and I both began to feel that there was something God wanted us to do, s

Hello, Friends and Partners! Well, it is officially February 1st. Looking at the calendar this morning, it hit me: We are in the "home stretch." This is our last “full month” in Virginia, and we are exactly 45 days away from March 18th—the day Patricia, the kids, Heather, and I load up the U-Haul and leave these Virginia hills for the Franklin Mountains and the desert of El Paso. I’ll be honest with you—we are tired, but we are also more expectant than we have ever been. Janu

This update was sent to our email list on January 1, 2026. Happy New Year, Everyone! It is officially January 1, 2026. I can hardly believe I’m typing that. As we look at the calendar, we realized this morning that we are now just TWO MONTHS away from packing up our lives here in Virginia and heading to the Borderlands! As I’ve been preparing to preach this coming Sunday at New Life Baptist Church in Ferrum, I’ve been dwelling on 1 Peter 2:9-10: But you are a chosen race, a r

Hey everyone! It’s the first of the month, so it’s time for another Davis Family Church Planting Update! As this gets sent out, Thanksgiving was just a few days ago, so we have been thinking a lot about what we as a family are most thankful for, and I have to say that the thing I am most thankful for is Ephesians 2:4-5, which says, “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in ourtrespasses, made us alive together w

It’s so hard to believe that we are going to be packing up and moving in less than five months! But as with every other month since June, October was chock full of things to share with you all, and as with other months, it started early. When we had our assessment retreat back in August, we met and began building a relationship with some other church planters in the Send Network, Blake and Brittany Whitley. We connected over social media and have been staying in touch wit

Hey everybody! Well, I am EXHAUSTED! Did anyone else’s September seem to absolutely fly by? I was joking with a brother earlier today...

NOTE: This update was sent to our email list on September 1, 2025. It was our full intention to share this post then, and it was not...

Hey Everyone! This is the second monthly update letter that we are sending out and A LOT has happened since the first update. As many of...

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