When I see the ministry that Steve DeFrain is doing I see a hometown hero for us students at Valley Forge because he is doing exactly what we are learning about in our discipleship classes and fleshing it out in real life. Steve is reaching the people who our “comfortable” are afraid to reach and put in their buildings. Thanks to the transparency of Don Heller he was able to allow us into the life of someone who God grabs a hold of and changes for his purposes. Don was known as a rough and rowdy guy but through God’s grace and the service of Steve he as changed and is now the campus pastor at their churches new plant in Phoenixville. That is the exact style of ministry that Jesus did when he took fishermen and tax collectors and through his love and care was able to rehabilitate them to good standing with God then turn them into ministers themselves. I loved Steve and Don’s commitment to lifting up Jesus above all things and being a light to the darkness. In a world that curses darkness rather then illuminate it Steve and Don enter the darkness to be a light for Jesus. I especially liked their take on them having 52 super bowls and how every Sunday is a big day for them and how their main goal is to get unsaved people to know Christ. Also, I think Don showed us how the local church ought to be a place of rehabilitation he summed it up in one quote, “Jesus saved my soul, but Journey Church saved my life.” I think if other churches could show this same commitment to bringing people to Christ we would go a long way.
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