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FEC Welcomes Pine Hills City Church

On Sunday, November 11, 2018, Pine Hills City Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana, marked their second anniversary and baptized eight people. Four of those individuals live at either the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission or Charis House, homes for men and women who are experiencing a homeless crisis. In that significant moment, the people of City Church [...]

Engage Sunday unleashes an army of volunteers in Fort Wayne and Kendallville

For the third year running, FEC churches from Fort Wayne and Kendallville unleashed a small army of volunteers throughout their cities, ready to serve in Jesus’ name. On August 27, 2017, 1,352 volunteers from six FEC churches in Fort Wayne, and 11 area churches in Kendallville, participated in Engage Sunday, where they washed cars, weeded, [...]

Church plant in Auburn set to launch mid fall

The city of Auburn is gearing up for some major expansion—with what some are calling the largest development in DeKalb County—and FEC is launching a church on the front end of this growth. According to David Martin, former spiritual formation pastor at Pine Hills Church, “even if every church in Auburn were filled, there would [...]

What I’m Learning Right Now – Chris Freeman

As most of you know, my life has been full of change over the last year. In June of 2016, my family and I relocated from Dayton, Ohio back to Fort Wayne, Indiana. In November we planted a church. In December we had our second child. It's been a bit of a whirlwind. With all of [...]

Central city location creates challenges and opportunities for new church plant

Any way you slice it, the 46807 zip code in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is one diverse community, with a wide range of ages, races, income levels, and religious affiliations. And that’s just fine for Chris Freeman, who is slated to launch Pine Hills City Church in this neighborhood […]

Your Church is Going to Die

Written by Chris Freeman, Planter of Pine Hills City Church in Fort Wayne, IN   "Your church is going to die." Those were some of the very first words spoken at a church planting conference I recently attended. Talk about a morale booster. One of the main reasons why church planters attend conferences like these is to be [...]

New church plant targets major metropolitan area

The Well Church sets sights on Indianapolis Say hello to Ben Wangler, FEC’s newest church planter, slated to plant a church in Indianapolis this fall. With a master’s degree in Biblical studies from Moody Bible Institute, along with five years of experience pastoring a church, Ben plans to hit the ground running. Says Jay Nickless, [...]