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Rosemont's Final Service Fills the Auditorium

The Rosemont Church of Christ in Fort Worth had its last worship. In spite of the need to close the church, the people were joyous as they reminisced over their history. Rosemont had a great life. At one point, the attendance was running over 900 people on Sundays.

They were a mission church doing some of the great work of the past in Germany and even to the end supporting and participating in World Bible School.

The Rosemont Chorus is legendary in Fort Worth. Throughout its entire history the church took Godly pride in being a singing church.

The Elders Receive Recognition for Years of Faithful Service

It was truly a joy to see current and former members of the congregation pay tribute to the many great leaders who served the church throughout its 55 year history.

Due to demographic changes in south Fort Worth, the Rosemont congregation is no longer equipped to reach out to her Hispanic neighbors. That is the sad news.

The happy news is cause for rejoicing! The elders want the DNA of the Rosemont church to live on through a newly, yet to be planted, Iglesia de Cristo Rosemont! To see this accomplished, the church gifted their property to Continent of Great Cities. We are thrilled with the potential of the 1,000-seat auditorium.

It is the strategic time for Continent to begin planting large Hispanic churches in major cities of the United States.

We envision principles learned through the Rosemont church plant will provide a valid prototype for US Hispanic church establishment. Great cities like Fort Worth, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Diego, Denver and Chicago are in need of dynamic Hispanic churches.

The Rosemont Team

Three pieces of the strategy are in place. 1) The gift of the Rosemont property provides a place to build the model. 2) Four Hispanic families trained at the Baxter Institute in Honduras with fulltime ministry experience have stepped forward to apply for the team. 3) Ken Lewis’  return to Continent to lead the project.  With his 17 years experience in Brazil and 10 year history as a member of the Great Cities staff, Ken will ensure the success of the Hispanic church plants across the USA.

The importance of the Rosemont project is three-fold: 1) To use the Rosemont church plant to create a model for Hispanic church plants in the USA. 2) To plant a large Spanish-speaking church in Fort Worth for the 100,000 Hispanics who live within five miles of the church building. 3) To use the Rosemont church plant as an evangelistic laboratory for all of our teams preparing to plant churches.
We certainly need your prayers and your continued financial support as we add yet another dimension to the work of Continent of Great Cities.  We have no intention of lessening the focus on the great cities of South America. We are now adding the commitment to build teams for planting churches in the great Hispanic cities of our own nation.

On Friday, February 1, Continent assumed possession of the Rosemont property.