Posts by Whittney Gilmer

Throughout our lives, we are confronted with decisions we never anticipated having to make. relationship decisions career decisions financial decisions parenting decisions The list goes on and on. To complicate matters further, the timeframe for making a decision is often short, and our options limited. So what do you do when it’s your move and…

Each weekend, thousands of people put on their Sunday best and make their way to church. But what about the church itself? What is the church trying to accomplish? In this message, Rich Barrett and Andy Stanley will explain what it means for the church to put on its Sunday best. We’ll see you this…

It’s the last hurrah before school is back in session, and it’s the coolest party you’ve ever been to! All 6th-12th graders are invited! Join us this Saturday, August 20, 6:00-8:00pm, at Mandarin Park. There will be music, crazy games, swimming in the creek, a giant inflatable, food, and a free t-shirt for your friends.…

Why is GroupLink so important at Access Church? Success at Access Church is defined by how many of us move from large environments into Community Groups. Community Groups are small groups of six married couples or eight individuals of the same gender. The Community Group is the best place for sustained life change to occur.…

Face it. Religion can get pretty strange pretty quickly. Mystical. Superstitious. Legalistic. Judgmental. Hypocritical. But religion isn’t going away. The human race has an insatiable curiosity regarding the divine. Since the beginning of time, men and women have established elaborate rituals and traditions in an attempt to bridge the gap between the seen and the unseen;…

Every business, organization and family has assumptions. These assumptions drive decisions. Church is no different. But what if the assumptions are false? In this message, “Here!”, Andy Stanley discusses one of Christianity’s age-old assumptions, why they are false, and what we should do in light of this truth. We’ll see you this Sunday. Invite a…

Nobody likes sitting in a waiting room. The chairs are unwelcoming. The magazines are out-of-date. The coffee is stale. And with each passing minute, sitting there waiting for your name to be called, you get this unnerving sense—you’ve been forgotten. But is that really the case? In life’s waiting room, have you been forgotten, or…

You can’t turn on the news these days without becoming painfully aware that things aren’t going so well in the good ole’ USA. It seems that those we’ve elected to lead can’t seem to agree on what the problem is. Politicians frame the debate as rich vs. poor, big business vs. the middle class, or…

Do you have a heart to see our Access family help and serve our community? You might be the perfect person for the important volunteer position of Intersect Coordinator. And we need you! At Access we want to be the kind of church that is the hands of feet of Christ to our community. There…

We’ve spent June in UpStreet talking about faith. Faith is trusting in what you can’t see because of what you can see. If you look around you, you can see all kinds of evidence that will convince you that there is a God who is someone you can put your trust in. One example is…