Transformation House Church

Meeting on Sunday, at 10:00 AM
Location: Call for directions: 913-709-2220
Children's church provided
Email: Pastorjohnenderby@gmail.com
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 A group of Christ-followers who desire to know God better, to worship and enjoy Him, and to live out their faith in community.

      Beginning in the Book of Acts, believers gathered in homes to cultivate a close, intimate, relationship with their Lord, and with one another.  Modern day House Church reflects our Lord’s original design.

     (Note especially, Acts 2:46; 5:42; 12:12; Acts 20:20; Romans 16:5; 1 Corinthians 16:19; Colossians 4:15; Philemon 1:2)

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TRANSFORMATION HOUSE CHURCH VALUES

♥ PEOPLE CARE for each other and are COMMITTED to one another by spending quality and quantity time together. Consequently, the mandates for believers’ relationships, sited below, thrive within the House Church setting: loving, serving, forgiving, and giving to “one another”. (Romans 12:10; 15:7; 1 Corinthians 1:10; Galatians 5:13; Ephesians 4:2; 4:32; Colossians 3:13; 3:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; Hebrews 10:24-25; 1 Peter 4:8-10; James 5:16, 1 John 3:23). 

TEACHING TIMES focus on God's Word, and discussion, rather than purely lecture. Each week our short, solid teaching from God’s Word is given by the elder/pastor, followed by lively discussion among attendees, based on the text, and guided by the elder/pastor. The House Church settings nurture this interaction. The Spirit challenges us in Colossians 3:16 to “Let the word of Christ dwell in you (plural) richly as you (plural) teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” (Also note Romans 15:14.)

♥ YOUR ELDER/PASTOR “knows” you! You are personally known, prayed for, and cared for by a God ordained House Church leader. With tenderness of heart (Acts 20:28) Paul challenged the elders/pastors of the house churches in Ephesus to “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.” The writer of Hebrews proclaimed that leaders (elders/overseers) “keep watch over you as men who must give an account” (Hebrews 13:17).

♥ EACH PERSON is valued and given opportunities to exercise his or her spiritual gift(s) to strengthen the body. “What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. All of these must be done for the strengthening of the church” (1 Corinthians 14:26; also note 14:1-3).

♥ House Church believers accept one another regardless of their weaknesses. Everyone needs patience and forgiveness. A House Church virtue is: “I won’t bail out on you, no matter what.” Note: Colossians 3:12-13. "As God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you."(Also note Philippians 2:1-6; and Romans 12:16)

♥ YOU CAN PERSONALLY KNOW your elder/pastor! The elder/pastor opens his heart to his flock; he is humble and transparent. The flock, therefore, knows how to encourage,support, and pray for him. “Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work.” 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 (Note also 1 Timothy 5:17; Hebrews 13:7,17) 

♥ OUTREACH is encouraged and lived out. “Church is not an event, a place or an organization; it is a family on mission together” Neil Cole. House church attenders are called out to influence their network of friends, workplace, school, and neighborhoods, with Good News! Paul wrote to the house churches in Philippi “Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God. Carry the light-giving Message into the night … Philippians 2:15-16 (The Message).  (Note also Acts 2:46-47 and 4:42)

 Reproducing House churches!  Reproducing does not require a big budget because house churches do not focus on building buildings. Elders are trained and ordained within the local church, just as in New Testament times. “Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church….” Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5 

Pastor John and Pam Enderby

Greetings!      
I was born and raised in Green Bay and attended a liberal, protestant church until I turned sixteen. When I graduated from Bay Port High School in 1968, my father wisely encouraged me to join the Navy. I was wild, loved to drink and party.

In 1971 I received an honorable discharge from the Navy and returned to Green Bay to enroll at UWGB. For two years I studied basic core classes and then transferred to a local business college. I was absolutely convinced that making lots of money would secure my goals, dreams and happiness.

During the Fall of 1973, I met Pam, a beautiful 18-year-old. One month later we were engaged. Subsequently, I married Pam and took a manager-trainee position with Wisconsin Financial Corporation, (a reputable financial firm in WI). Soon thereafter, we purchased a home, new car and a miniature schnauzer… life appeared great.

Our marriage had a faulty foundation, so it began to crumble. At this crisis time my wife and I came to know the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Savior. What amazing grace He poured out upon us! This spiritual encounter drastically changed our purpose and direction for life!

Less than 2 years after our conversion, Pam and I moved to Roseville, Minnesota to attend Northwestern Bible College. I graduated with a BA in ministries and continued my studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. I was thirsty for God’s Word, like a huge sponge, soaking up all its spiritual truths and insights. At Trinity, Dr. Walter Kaiser (current president of Gordon-Conwell Seminary and a translator of the New International Bible), became my mentor and good friend. 

Upon graduation in May of 1982, I accepted an invitation to church plant with the Evangelical Free Church in Sparta, Wisconsin. As a spirit-filled follower of Christ, I spent the next twenty years endeavoring to make disciples in various church settings. (During this time I also earned my Doctor of Ministry degree from Trinity Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana.)

Although our Heavenly Father never changes, He lovingly orchestrates change in every believer’s life. With change oftentimes comes pain, heartache and suffering. However, our Good Shepherd and God of all comfort, wisely uses those experiences to mold us and shape us into vessels He can use for His glory. Consequently, the Lord spoke to my heart and Pam's heart with a challenge to start Transformation House Church.

Transformation House Church is a place where men, women, and youth are being transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit in order to “do the works of Jesus” (John 14:12). I feel honored to love, equip and lead this church. Some of our favorite “purpose” Scriptures are Luke 4:18-19; Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, 12:9-10; Galatians 2:20; Philippians 2:12-16; and 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 .

Pastoring, loving, and equipping people gives Pam and me tremendous joy. The grace of God continues to uniquely and wonderfully transform our lives. To our Lord, and Him alone, be all the glory!

Pastor John Enderby

Phone:913-709-2220
Email to:Pastorjohnenderby@gmail.com

May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing His will, and may He work in us what is pleasing to Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen (Hebrews 13:20-21).