who
We are a new gospel-centered church for all of Cabarrus county. Over 25 years ago, God graced a little church plant called Lake Forest in Huntersville to grow and thrive in the mission to love people as they discovered and live out their role in God’s story. Over time it grew into a family of different churches united in the vision to keep reaching one more person for Jesus, especially those who have given up on church but not on God. Lake Forest is the “parent” to our new church plant.
how
Over two years ago the people and pastors at Lake Forest started dreaming and praying about a new church in the hugely-growing Cabarrus county. A church committed…
- to the teaching and preaching gospel of grace;
- to people who aren’t part of any other church
- to being humble and submitted to others in leadership
One more church that could take its place alongside other faithful churches loving and leading in Kannapolis, Concord, Harrisburg, etc.
why me?
I’m Andy Cornett. Along with my wife Robin, I moved here to Concord right before Thanksgiving 2024 after a dozen years at an awesome church in the Chattanooga, TN area. We came here to plant because
- God convinced my heart of the mission – I love calling men, women, and kids to imagine life with God, in his kingdom, under Jesus;
- Good friends at Lake Forest called me to come join their team, and
- God made plain this was our next assignment! He has shown me how he goes before us, prepares the way, and is calling people everywhere to himself. I love this place and people and am stoked for planting a new church.
who we are: Trinity Forest
When Lake Forest began, Forest Hill Church in Charlotte was their sending church. We wanted to honor that family tree. And Trinity is the best word that captures the common faith all Christians share. We believe God is up to something big–nothing less the renewal of all things: that God the Father has reconciled his created-but-fallen world through the sending of his Son Jesus, and renews it into the Kingdom of God by his Spirit.
We live in the power of that story, from the center out. Just like trees, people don’t grow well by themselves. They are meant to flourish together. By God’s grace, may our church grow into a forest of trees that thrive together, giving shade and shelter of God’s grace to all others.