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Two Questions with Brad Schroer of Community Christian Gilroy
November 23, 2016

We recently took a survey of portable church pastors around the country to find out what was ONE THING they would do differently if they were to start over again, and what was ONE THING they did well when planting their church. Today, we want to introduce you to Brad Schroer of Community Christian Gilroy. Enjoy!

 

brad-schroer-community-christian-gilroy-2Community Christian Gilroy | Gilroy, CA

 
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Community Christian Gilroy has been open since February 2015 as a campus of Community Christian. The transplanted 20 people from their Morgan Hill campus. They have been averaging 70 people and are prepared to grow this fall. They meet in an elementary school and have the best people in the world!
 

Given the experiences and knowledge you have now as a church planter/pastor, what is the ONE THING you would do differently if you were starting over again?

 
I would change the pace of how I tried to engage in the relationships. I came on really strong, I really wanted people to know that this was going to be a good place. Had I focused more on quality, I believe it would have paid off. One of our most significant team members DID come from this approach, so I totally believe that I would still do a lot of one on one meetings. But because of this pace, message prep and quality took too much of a back seat. (With that, we had a lot of pastors filling the pulpit to give me more free time…this too felt to work against my ability to deliver consistent, quality services, even though those pastors were much better preachers than I was.)
 

What was ONE THING you did well when planting your church that you would highly suggest to other planters?

 
I did my best to keep a level head about attendance fluctuations. When it comes to the reactions that I could have had (pressing volunteers too hard, preaching outside of my style, pressuring worship to bring energy) I feel like I was able to draw on past experience to know that these things take time. I was often right on the edge of freaking out…but was able to manage that in an effective way. Some well timed encouragement and wise comments went a long way in contributing to that. Thanks God!
 

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Brad is thirty-four years old and is married to a seriously amazing woman named Cori. Together, they have two bright, young boys. Brad graduated from William Jessup University in December of 2005 with a BS in Bible/Theology and a BS Pastoral Ministry. He was super blessed to be able to intern at his home church beginning in 2002, and was then hired by them in January of 2006 as a pastor. Most of his ministry history is in a small/medium church as the associate pastor. He began working on his plant in early in 2014 with a church that has an incredible passion for understanding and executing church planting, but they are definitely on the front end of the learning curve of experience.