Embedded: Life.Church Omaha - Day 2

Pre-Launch Outreach with Todd Dachshund

Opening Moments

Sam welcomes Pastor Todd Dachshund into the office just four days before launch. Mutual gratitude and expectancy fill the room—“thanks for hanging out with me today… there’s a beautiful movement that God is doing amongst many churches here.”

Testimonies

Todd Dachshund

• Setting: Long-time Omaha pastor, visiting the new church-plant team.
• Spiritual insight: Celebrates city-wide unity—“we talked with several pastors and we’re all excited about it.”
• Encouragement: Affirms the newcomers’ “history and excellence in reaching the lost” and pledges to “lock arms” with them.

Sam – Lead Planter

• Setting: Launching a brand-new church at Russell Middle School in just “four days.”
• Outreach moment: Leads the team in hanging invitation cards on neighborhood doors—“we’re literally just putting these individually on doors… not ringing doorbells.”
• Honest humor: Laughs at his own delivery—“apparently I don’t know how to do this; that was so janky.”
• Vision & burden: Notes the metro’s million residents and estimates “a half a million people to reach.”
• Core conviction: “God chose us to come be a part of something that is just so much bigger than any one of us… it’s the mission that Jesus put us all on.”

Holy-Spirit Highlights

• Tangible unity among Omaha churches.
• Bold, joy-filled outreach in a “nice neighborhood” despite nerves.
• Awe that God entrusts ordinary people with a mission “bigger than Sam… even bigger than Crācked—it’s the mission.”
• Sense of divine timing: four days until doors open and hearts are ready.

Prayer Points & Next Steps

• Cover the launch service at Russell Middle School in prayer.
• Ask for receptive hearts among the half-million unreached neighbors.
• Strengthen partnerships between local congregations.
• Pray for continued courage and creativity as the team invites the community this week.

Closing Blessing

“Go kill it this week.”