Despite massive roadblocks and missteps early on their building path, Brad Wilkerson and the Rock Creek Church team are thriving in a brandnew church home.
By RaeAnn Slaybaugh
In June 2007, Brad Wilkerson and his wife, Sarah, started a Bible study in their living room.
Little did they know it was the start of Rock Creek Church in Prosper, TX, which— today— welcomes nearly 3,500 in attendance and is on the brink of finishing a 42,000 square-foot building project in time for Christmas services. Divine timing played a major role in the church’ s trajectory. But so did hard-learned lessons, strong partnerships that helped
Rock Creek overcome substantial obstacles, and most of all: enduring faith.
Back in the summer of 2007, Brad Wilkerson was the associate pastor at Midway Church, about 20 miles north of his home in Prosper, Texas. For several years, he and other church leaders had noticed explosive growth along the 380 Corridor, going south. Though that area was primarily farmland at the time, they had a vision they believed in. Among their congregation— and the communityat-large— the team was seeing families move south for work and for
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