Dear members and friends of Trinity Grace -
Many of you know that our church has been engaged in a conversation over the past few months about what it would look like for us to come alongside the South Texas Presbytery and the Reach South Texas Church Planting Network to help establish a new PCA church in the Alamo Ranch area over the next few years.
Toward the beginning of August, we made the congregation aware that the Reach South Texas Church Planting Network has been engaged in conversation over the past year with Adam and Kindell Lopez, who feel called to church planting in South Texas. This summer, the Lopez family was interviewed and approved by our church planting network and by our denominational church planting assessment center.
A few weeks back the session of Trinity Grace, along with a few invited guests, had the chance to interview Adam and Kindell Lopez. We were very encouraged by what we heard and believe that God may very well be laying the foundations for a new church plant in the Alamo Ranch area.
After that interview with the session, you might remember that we also had the Lopez family join us for worship on Sunday August 20. We were able to carve out some time after that service to hear more from Adam Lopez about his desire to plant a new church in the Alamo Ranch area. We were also able to take questions from the congregation at that meeting.
It seemed that everyone in attendance was excited about this potential opportunity and we received some very positive feedback on our plan to help establish a new gospel-centered church in the Alamo Ranch area.
When a new church is planted in the Alamo Ranch area we want to do everything we can to help it flourish. With that in mind, Reach South Texas and our Presbytery has asked our church to host the Alamo Ranch church planter for a 2 year church planting residency.
At our last session meeting, the elders of Trinity Grace voted to extend a call to Adam Lopez to serve as a 2 year church planting resident beginning September 1, 2023. We are excited to welcome the Lopez family to Trinity Grace, and we look forward to what God will do through them as they seek to serve us and make plans to establish a new church in Alamo Ranch!
Adam will serve on staff at Trinity Grace for those 2 years in order to learn our church culture, explore what it could look like to plant a healthy church, shore up some areas where growth is needed, and begin laying the foundation for launching in the Alamo Ranch area in the fall of 2025. The Lopez family is very excited about the potential of helping establish a new church in the Alamo Ranch area.
Once the Lopez family is able to get a bit settled in the San Antonio area, we will make plans to formally introduce them on a Sunday morning. For now, here is a bit about the Lopez family:
Adam and Kindell Lopez are high school sweethearts from Bridge City, a small southeast Texas town near the Gulf coast. They both earned business degrees from Lamar University in Beaumont. After graduating, they moved to Houston, where Adam served as a police officer from 2006 to 2016. In 2016, Adam and Kindell moved their family to St. Louis to attend Covenant Seminary, receiving an MDiv 2020 (Adam) and Master of Arts in Ministry - Counseling 2023 (Kindell). Adam and Kindell have four children - Fallon - a new Baylor Bear (2005), Asher (2009), Shaylee (2012), and Ezra (2019).
In 2020, Adam took a call at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Cedar Park, where he served as Assistant Pastor. In 2023, Adam and Kindell are moving their family to San Antonio to labor as Assistant Pastor of Church Planting at Trinity Grace in hopes of planting a new church in the Far West Side of San Antonio.
Adam enjoys running and exercise, listening to and playing music, enjoying new and diverse foods, reading good books, hIking and outdoor activities with family, family board game nights, cheering on our favorite sports teams. hanging out with friends and family, and traveling to new places as they have the opportunity.
Please be praying for the Lopez family transition. They are in the midst of selling a house in Austin, transferring schools for their children, and searching for a home in San Antonio.