The 2026–2029 Long Range Plan · FBC, Kaufman
Fearless into
The Future
Seven engines. Three giants. One vision — 155 years and counting.
Movement One
Who We Are
Our Vision
FBC Kaufman is about Jesus Christ and His mission to redeem the world. We believe we have been called together to shape the future of Kaufman County toward all that is good and beautiful in the eyes of God.
We are a church where the hurting, the confused and the sinful find what they need most: authentic love, salvation, acceptance, hope, forgiveness, and encouragement — with open arms and hearts, passionate about sharing the Gospel with our neighbors.
We are building a new campus for central Kaufman County — beautiful yet versatile facilities set on forty acres of rolling hills and majestic oaks, a sacred place to meet with God, grow in faith, make deep friendships, and reach out to our neighbors and world.
Our mission in a sentence: transforming Kaufman County and the whole world for Christ, one changed life at a time.
The 7 Loves & the Power to Be Human
Two convictions shape this plan. The 7 Loves are the operating system of this congregation — every new member learns them in Gateway 1, and every ministry answers to one of them.
- 01Accepting God's love
- 02Loving God
- 03Loving Christ's church
- 04Loving your family
- 05Loving the Holy Spirit's work in your life
- 06Loving others the way only you can
- 07Loving people into God's family
The Power to Be Human names our moment: a world of artificial everything, where people grow lonelier as machines grow more capable — and where the church holds an announcement no algorithm can make. You are not a user or a profile. You are made in the image of God.
It sets our horizon. May 23, 2033 marks two thousand years since Pentecost. What we make rock solid by 2029 is what we will fly on in 2033.
How We Measure a Life — the Six Rings
Movement Two
Where We Stand
An honest plan begins with an honest accounting. FBC Kaufman is 155 years old, on forty-three acres of post oak savanna in one of the fastest-growing counties in the DFW metroplex.
Much is strong
A 750-seat worship venue near capacity. Seven in ten adults in a Sunday lifegroup. Promiseland, Kaufman Connect, and The Center serving thousands. Growing giving, and first buildings alive seven days a week.
Said plainly
We are out of room on Sunday morning. The ParentJourney needs rebuilding. Leadership development has been informal — we need a pipeline, not a knack. And we carry manageable, faithfully-serviced campus debt.
Movement Three
The Seven Engines
The seven systems that drive the 7 Loves are this church's engines. Before any building rises, they must be rock solid. One thesis binds all seven — nearly every bottleneck is the same: leaders. The next thirty-six months are a leader-making season.
Engine One
Evangelism & Assimilation
We love people into God’s family — we go and tell, and we invite people to come and see. Beyond our front doors, six to seven life-stage campaigns run each year, each led by a different staff team and lay champion, each leaving behind a new lifegroup. Alongside runs Becka’s everyday system of knowing every guest.
Goal · 100 baptisms a year; 7 new lifegroups a year — roughly 300 baptisms and 21 lifegroups over thirty-six months.
Engine Two
Discipleship
We love the Holy Spirit’s work in our lives. Formation’s home is the Sunday lifegroup, led by class pastors. The step forward: a better leader-development plan — an apprentice in every group, a sustainable huddle rhythm, and homegrown content as the media studio comes online.
Goal · 70% of adults in lifegroups now, pressing toward 80% as the cabins open; at least 7 new class pastors a year.
Engine Three
Volunteer Mobilization & Leadership
We love others the way only we can — every member a minister. Kay is building two systems: a leadership pipeline (from serving, to leading others, to leading leaders) with the apprentice norm throughout, and a greatly expanded hospitality team — the church’s widest on-ramp into serving.
Goal · To be set: percentage of adults serving; groups with a named apprentice; hospitality roster and per-event load.
Engine Four
Worship
We love God, and Sunday worship is the best hour of the week — moving people from fans to players. The big lift is the Worship Collective, led by Cameron Polk in the new cabins: an arts academy developing worship leaders of every talent and age — voices, instruments, and the tech arts.
Goal · Every platform role with a named apprentice; worship leaders developed and deployed each year; partner churches served by 2029.
Engine Five
Missions, Local & Global
We love people into God’s family to the ends of the earth — an Acts 1:8 church. Our mission arc walks every young person outward through five radii: local, Hidden Acres, Colorado, Germany, and Ukraine. The build is organizational: one leader per rung, each with a standing team and apprentice.
Goal · To be set with five rung leaders: trips and participants per rung, teams fully staffed, partner commitments kept.
Engine Six
Family Formation
We love our families like Jesus. The plan already exists in Gateway 1 — FBCTots through FBCWellness, held together by the ParentJourney with its seven Milestones, Stepping Stones classes, and the Navigate summit. It has not been well implemented; in the next thirty-six months, it must be — calendar-first.
Goal · All 7 Milestones held every year with participation tracked; Stepping Stones between each; Navigate every fall.
Engine Seven
Stewardship
Our church belongs to God — and so does everything in our hands. Jason is building our generosity ministry on the Crown paradigm: money as discipleship before budget. Biblical financial studies through lifegroups, trained lay coaches, a named generosity ladder, and the full range of Kingdom tools.
Goal · To be set: percentage of households giving; first-time givers a year; households completing a study; coaches trained; legacy commitments.
Movement Four
The Giants of This Moment
For 155 years this church has faced the giant in front of it. Sunday School. The Center. FBC en Español. Promiseland. The campus. Kaufman Connect. We have never really built programs — we have built answers. We believe three giants face us now.
Dehumanization
AI, automation, and the glowing rectangle quietly flatten people into users and data. Our neighbors are more connected — and lonelier — than any generation. Against it stands an ancient announcement: you are made in the image of God.
A New Gnosticism
The old heresy in new clothes: the body is optional and endlessly editable, the algorithm holds hidden knowledge. The church answers as it has for two thousand years — with stubbornly physical things. Bread and cup. Water you go all the way under.
The Upheaval in How Children Learn
The AI revolution is rewriting how children learn and what childhood looks like, asking more of parents and educators than ever. Since 2000 our vision has prayed for a community "where children go to school without fear."
And so, in the pattern of every generation before us, we are building answers.
The Recreation Ministry
The first giant, met with joy. No tryouts, no cuts, no travel fees — everyone in, three generations on one campus.
The Creator's Village
A confession of faith about the body, built in wood and stone. Every workbench preaches against the new gnosticism without a word.
The same studio building also houses
The Worship Collective
Spectators become participants. An arts academy for every age and talent, built to develop worshipers — for our platform and county churches.
Kaufman Academy
We stand with public schools and educators — and build a hybrid academy whose heart is a covenant: parents at the head of the table.
David carried five smooth stones — small, specific, physical. So this plan comes down to things you can touch: a child catching his first fish; a widow laughing at a quilting frame; a young adult baptized in water that is actually cold. That is how giants fall in Kaufman County — one changed life at a time.
Movement Five
Room for Sunday
Everything flows from one conviction: Sunday morning is the best hour of the week — the best time for worship and for Bible study, for adults and children alike.
And it is the best kind of problem: we are out of room. The 750-seat venue is near capacity, and Bible-study space is just as tight. Four projects lead the expansion — because they unlock the hour that matters most.
Build for the best hour of the week, and you discover you've built for all 168 of them.
The Build List
First Priorities — Room for Sunday
Made Possible Alongside — the Fuller Campus
The full campus vision totals roughly four and a half million dollars in new construction, alongside the consolidation of existing debt — the complete financial case accompanies the final plan.
One Campus, Every Hour
Four ministries share the cabins — Sunday Bible study, Kaufman Connect, Kaufman Academy, and the Worship Collective. The hours exist.
Morning
Sun · Bible study in every room; worship in the venue
Weekday · Kaufman Connect — breakfast, wellness, lunch
Weekend · Farm work days, archery, recreation
Midday–Afternoon
Sun · Lingering, lunch, campus open
Weekday · Academy days; Collective lessons; studios
Afterschool · Arts, archery, fishing, cooking
Evening
Sun · Youth and young-adult gatherings
Weekday · Lifegroups, Re|Engage, classes, huddles
Weekend · Ensembles; fire pits; late-night courts
Three generations. Multiple ministries. One campus, every day — and Sunday first.
Movement Six
The Road to 2029
Year One
'27
Rock Solid
The seven engines enter the new year rock solid: campaign playbook written and running, class-pastor development launched, pipeline and hospitality systems live, the Collective's first cohort begun, mission rung leaders named, the ParentJourney calendar kept. Design, approvals, and first construction begin.
Year Two
'28
Open the Rooms
The cabins and courts come online and the layered week begins: Bible study moves into its living rooms, Kaufman Connect grows, the Collective moves home, and — if discernment says go — Kaufman Academy welcomes its first families. The campaign rotation reaches full stride.
Year Three
'29
Full Stride
Twelve hundred fifty seats filling; eight in ten adults in a lifegroup; twenty-one new lifegroups leading; the giants engaged on every front. The church that stands here in June 2029 will spend the next four years running hard at the 2033 horizon.
One changed life at a time. For 155 years and counting. Praise God that we get to be a part of something so great for our Lord.
Be Part of What God Is Building
We give up things we love for things we love even more.
Every gift moves this vision forward — one changed life, one classroom, one acre at a time. Join us in making room for everyone God is sending.
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