Our Story

Life Family Church is a new church in Mansfield, Texas. Describing a new church is like trying to describe a person. You can get the rough idea, but you really have to be with them to fully take in what they look like, how they talk and how they carry themselves.

Maybe the best thing we could do is have our pastor Clay Wilkinson tell you how he came to start Life Family Church:

“Walking away from the warmth and the glow of a bonfire service at Camp Eagle, I thought to myself- Now that’s what church is supposed to be. Real people, real connection and real conversation about our real life and relationship with God.  I have carried those thoughts with me for years and into launching Life Family Church. I believe religion can’t produce a transformed life, only a real relationship with our real Redeemer can! Church groups came to Camp Eagle every week looking for ways to connect and draw closer to God and to each other. Often, the camp atmosphere was radically different from the environment back home in their home churches. Retreats are great, but I began to see a need for consistency in our core beliefs, such as what we believe about how God views us and how we view each other. At Life Family Church, we like to say, “No Perfect People Allowed!” and that includes me.

There is nothing I can do today that will make God love me any more-or any less!  We tell people that God loves them right where they are, but then we have this “church culture” that requires people to clean up their act or at least fake it to come to church. But what if we functioned like we say we believe?  What if we loved people like God loves people?
My ideas about how a church treats people came from a lifetime of searching both in and out of full time ministry…and in the process I found a lot of other folks who were looking for the same things in life.  Real people, real connection, real conversation and a real desire to know God more! But these ideas aren’t unique or new, in fact they are the basic foundations of Truth that Jesus gave us in what is called the great commandment:

‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment.  The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’Matthew 27:37-39 (NASB)