We should not exist.  The odds have been against us from the beginning but maybe this is why we relate to how Abraham felt as described in Romans 4:18 TNIV, "Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations..."  And so with a conviction that a new church needed to be in our community we started realHope with a few close friends in a living room. 

  God would call others to join our team from different places with diverse gifts and abilities.  Stories of people selling their homes and having it sold within weeks for the full asking price, couples moving with no jobs finding places to work, new Christ-followers taking risk to start something new, retired ministers, leaders from other churches, teachers, all servants desiring to do God's will.  These are our stories and one can not help but wonder how it all fits into God's master story.

  It wasn't long before we out-grew the living room and found a small old doctor's office.  At one service we crammed thrity-five people into a building that couldn't hold that many.  Our message to be a place where you can come as you are and no perfect people allowed is resonating in our community.  After a year in the doctor's office we needed something bigger.

  We prayed one night for God to provide something bigger and cheaper.  The next day God provided the space we now meet in.  A two-story old home in the central part of downtown Fuquay-Varina.  We've opened it up to the community, building new partnerships, and God has given us opportunity after opportunity to reach those who are seeking, doubting, and Christ-followers who need a community they can call home.

  Ask anyone of us and you will hear our story how we came to realHope.  Each one unique, each one understanding that we have just joined something that is much bigger than anyone of us, and we eagerly await for what God has planned in the days ahead.  Our mission is simple - to reach people with real concerns and help them find real answers living a real purpose as a fully devoted Christ-follower. 

  In one word you could sum up our culture as real.  We overplay the word real and we make no apologies for it.  We just believe that to be in an intimate relationship with God we have to get real with ourselves, real with others, and real with God. 

 This is our story and it continues on.

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