UTAH

Derek & Bri

Salt Lake City, UT

Derek and Bri Murphy have been in Utah since 2017. Derek is the Salt Lake City Team Lead, Pastor and Executive Director for the Salt Lake City Underground. “A team united around the mission of planting a church in every neighborhood and have a missionary on every street.

Steve & Tricia

Eagle Mountain, UT

 Steve Pierson was raised Jewish, had a tumultuous childhood (to say the least), got saved when he was 20 and has not looked back since. He and his wife Tricia moved to Utah in the early 2000's with their 3 children and in 2017 started a church in one of the most densely populated, unchurched areas of our state; Eagle Mountain, Utah. And they are doing an amazing work there.

Steve and Tricia established Redemption Hill Church out of Risen Life Church here in Salt Lake and God has opened doors for them it is hard to keep up with. There have been struggles and there have been disappointments, but God is so good and these people labor for the Kingdom. Please pray for them!

Keith & Angie

South Jordan, UT

We were introduced to Keith & Angie Radke through a mutual friend as people who had been rather beat up by the rigors of ministry. (The person who introduced us would fit in that same category!) And since the time we met them, what a blessing they have been to us and our family. They started coming to Risen Life Church with us and then met Steve and Tricia, who were in need of a worship leader and preaching helper (which Keith is good at both of those) and he was soon helping Steve at Redemption Hill.

In about one year Redemption Hill sent Keith and Angie out to plant a church in South Jordan which is called River Community Church. Our own Chris and Shekinah have worked with Keith and Angie since the very beginning of River and it has been an enormous blessing to them.

Please pray for Keith and Angie for wisdom to lead River as they seek to establish a place of encouragement and evangelism in South Jordan, Utah

Phil & Melissa

Tooele, UT

Phil & Melissa Wiebe have been serving the Kingdom in Utah for several years but Easter of 2019 they were commissioned to plant a church in Tooele, Utah (if you don’t know how to pronounce it, it is probably best to not even try!) and in less than one year they are averaging 200 people a Sunday with 1/4 of that number being locals who have not accepted Christ yet. It is stunning to me what God is doing through this couple.

Phil is gifted at casting vision and organizing people around that vision. He has an approach to releasing volunteers that I recommend every pastor to ask him about. Of the 200 people he has attending, and the 150 of those who are Christians, he has 80 people released in some type of volunteer service and no one of those people is serving in more than one place. For anyone interested in what Phil is doing, I encourage you to contact him and ask him about his volunteer ministry. Point number one is “Every Christian has a gift and it is the responsibility of the Church to help identify that gift and release the person to serve the Kingdom through that gift.” I like that!!

God has amazing things on the horizon for Phil and Melissa, including a desire to have four satellite churches established out of their “Lake view Church” in the next four years. And as each of those satellite churches become independent fellowships, to establish more satellite churches all over Tooele county, one of the most unreached counties in the country.

Please pray for Phil and Melissa as they see God do amazing things in a desperate place

Justin & Amber

Salt Lake City, UT

Justin and Amber Bindel planted a church (now called Church of the Valley) in Salt Lake City in 2014. They have a great vision for reaching their community and are mobilizing people to make a difference in their associations. These two are a real blessing and are making a difference in Utah. Be sure and check out their website.

Pete & Cami

Ceder City, UT

We met Pete and Cami Akins when their band of “6" was only a band of “4.” They had moved to plant a church in Cedar City, Utah and what began in their home with all 4 of them in attendance (two of whom were in the nursery) is now a wonderful church on the North side of town which has approximately 1% of the cities population in regular attendance. Figure out what that would be for your town!!

For 17 years we have shared life with these folks and have been enormously blessed as a result.These guys love the Kingdom and love serving in all sorts of ways. Please pray for them as they continue to bring the gospel to Cedar. We are thankful for these friends