NCF Update 07/12/25

Good afternoon Church family,

Before I begin, I want to give you a heads up that this is a longer than usual email, but I would encourage you to take the time to read through it. There is information here that will be good for everyone to know and at the same time I hope this message will bless you.

May the grace of peace of the Lord be with you on this beautiful Saturday. Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day which means the church has the privilege of gathering together to honor the name of Christ and to build one another up in him. All are invited to come to prayer at 9: 30am, and to worship service at 10:45am.

Last Sunday was such a blessing as we celebrated the ordination of our two new deacons, Jacob Williams and Ryan Stevens. Thanks to everyone for coming out to support them, for the words spoken over them, for the prayers offered, and for the general atmosphere that we had while we were together. I know the Lord was with us and we experienced great grace. I am so very confident that the Lord has great plans for our church. He continues to grow us, to strengthen us, and to prepare us for what is ahead of us.

Tomorrow I have the privilege of going over to Tulakes Baptist in what is a culmination of 7 months of prayer and communication between their people and ours. The Lord has opened a door for me to step into the role of pastor for them while I continue to pastor our church also. The intention is that over the next months we will work towards feathering our organizations into one. We hope in Christ that the result of this will be one church, even stronger and better equipped for our future ministry then what we are now. I take this as a great grace from the Lord, believing that it is his desire that our ministry will expand and that we will have new opportunities to disciple more people, model biblical relational health for our community, and see many people saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. I would so appreciate your prayers for tomorrow.

I know that many of you are very excited about what is happening. I want to take a moment to clarify the situation for everyone, so that we are all on the same page. I will continue to be fully present as pastor for New Covenant Fellowship as I have been for these past many years. When combined with my time planting and pastoring before we became New Covenant Fellowship, I have been with our church for over 12 years now. Stacey and I came here with a clear call from the Lord to build a church which would focus on relationships first over programs. We were convinced that if we started with healthy relationships, discipleship, and dedication to walk according to the Scriptures, a healthy church would be born. God has been so faithful to do what he said he would do. We fought through the hard times, seasons of change, times of uncertainty, and anything that has come at us out of the confidence that God had called us and out of our love for you. Today, we are in a season of celebration and anticipation, knowing that God is up to something and yet patiently waiting for him to fully reveal it.

We are so very blessed to be a part of New Covenant Fellowship. You are our family, and I mean that. We love our church so very much and are very moved that the Spirit has been so kind to us to bless us with a church full of people who truly love one another and who are passionate about Christ and their walk with him. I am fully dedicated to pastoring New Covenant Fellowship for the rest of my ministry days should the Lord be kind enough to allow me to do so. I want you to know that I am all in with you.

Over the next weeks there will be some changes. Some will be more noticeable than others. There will be a lot going on in the background. You are always welcome to ask questions and I will be happy to share with you details if you’d like them. You will notice that our service time will stay the same, but the way we structure our service might change a little bit on certain Sundays. For at least two weeks out of each month I will be preaching at both NCF and Tulakes Baptist Church. I am committed to being present at both places so that everyone from both church communities will know that they have a pastor. Just know that if a service order looks a little different one Sunday, that is probably why. We are working on a plan that will help make all this work, and I am confident that it will. The fact that the two churches are so close together helps a lot with this.

In all things, but especially in this process, we are blessed in our church that we don’t only have one pastor, but we have an elder body and a deacon body full of people with shepherding hearts and that our leadership is united. I do not intend to approach this task of shepherding both churches alone. I will greatly rely on our elders as a team to accomplish this great task. As you know, the elders of NCF and I work in tandem together. There is no way I would be willing to take on something as big as this if I did not have Dwight Cunkle and Scott Walsh by my side. It would be impossible for me to overexpress how much these men have meant to me, and how having them on my team as elders empowers me to do what God has called me to do. I feel the same about our deacons. Each one of them is wonderfully gifted and they love you. It is going to take all of us working together to walk through this new season of expansion for our church. I don’t only mean the elders and deacons by the way, I mean all of you and the leaders working and praying together. Lord willing, when we get to the other side of this season we will rejoice in his goodness together and the people of Tulakes will be fully ready to join us with our vision to see the OKC Metro saturated with the gospel of Jesus for his glory and our good. The Lord will have knit the hearts of these two churches into one, and I can already see that happening. I can say for certain that many of them are very excited, and there is a great sense of faith in both congregations that God is working.

I have a lot more that I could write to you today, but I think this message has been plenty long enough already. We will share more details regarding everything happening very soon. I am always open to any of you who would like to meet with me or talk on the phone. If you have any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to reach out.  You are a grace to me.

One last thing, I want us to remember last Sunday. Serve was packed. There was new life brimming in our space. There were new faces, younger and older united together in worship. I am very confident that I heard from the Lord while we were worshiping together, that we were to look around that room and catch a vision for what he wants to do. I shared that with you last week, but I’m sharing it with you again here because I don’t want us to forget. I believe that God wants to fill our church with fresh vitality, with growing relationships in Christ, and with new relationships as we reach new people with the gospel. Let’s be praying to that end. Our growing relationship with Tulakes is a part of this, but not all. We saw last week how it really only takes a relatively small number of visitors and most of our people being present to totally fill our building. I believe this is why the Lord has brought us into relationship with the people at Tulakes. He is preparing us for a ministry expansion, and I pray that we will walk by faith in this season of preparation. May God’s will be done, and may he enrich our church in every way which he desires. For my part, I know that I am here for the ride and I am ready to surf whatever wave the Spirit sends our way. Let’s continue on this gospel adventure together!

In His steps,

Pastor Nick

Colossians 1:28-29 CSB — “We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. I labor for this, striving with his strength that works powerfully in me.”