A word from our Founding Chairman...
"As a Christian you are either a missionary or an imposter" (Charles Spurgeon) - Matthew 28:19-20
LifeApp has gone through many changes since it's beginning. Originally, LifeApp was the name of the evangelistic ministry of it's founder, Rev. Andy Burns. As the years progressed, hundreds of inquiries came from all over the world to embrace them as members of our ministry efforts and thereby evolved into an international ministry association of churches, evangelists, missionaries and pastors throughout the world. At it's peak, LifeApp had grown swiftly to over 700 churches in 17 countries, but became problematic where most of its overseas ministries were concerned.
In 2008, Pastor Burns had to put the ministry into a holding pattern to rework the ministry into a more manageable size, and as such, he released the churches and pastors who were outside the United States from their association with LifeApp.
There was a good reason for this. Many of the member pastors seemed to be more interested in financial support in various endeavors that they had in mind, thinking that LifeApp would merely send out funding to them without question, despite efforts to encourage them to understand that while LifeApp was committed to make their needs known throughout the world, that no funds would be forwarded if no funds were donated for their specific causes.
Since 2008, Pastor Burns has continued in ministry as a Pastor of several churches in North Carolina and Tennessee, leading to his new ministry involvement as the Lead Pastor of Life Church in Stevensville, Montana with his wife Pamela.
We are open to adding charter churches and those seeking credentials through LifeApp, but our same standards of membership, discipline, procedures and operational structure still remain as laid out in our Constitution & Bylaws, Doctrinal and Mission Statements, and our requirements for regular reporting from ministers and districts as laid out in our official documents.
We remain an association of churches and ministers, embracing those who seem to feel disenfranchised from larger denominations due to life situations that may disqualify them from credentialing or official recognition that they may need to establish new churches, or even officiate at marriage or funeral services. We are not a Universal Life Church, and are not associated with them in any way. Credentialing from LifeApp requires a rigorous application and interview process by the Presbytery.
LifeApp has gone through many changes since it's beginning. Originally, LifeApp was the name of the evangelistic ministry of it's founder, Rev. Andy Burns. As the years progressed, hundreds of inquiries came from all over the world to embrace them as members of our ministry efforts and thereby evolved into an international ministry association of churches, evangelists, missionaries and pastors throughout the world. At it's peak, LifeApp had grown swiftly to over 700 churches in 17 countries, but became problematic where most of its overseas ministries were concerned.
In 2008, Pastor Burns had to put the ministry into a holding pattern to rework the ministry into a more manageable size, and as such, he released the churches and pastors who were outside the United States from their association with LifeApp.
There was a good reason for this. Many of the member pastors seemed to be more interested in financial support in various endeavors that they had in mind, thinking that LifeApp would merely send out funding to them without question, despite efforts to encourage them to understand that while LifeApp was committed to make their needs known throughout the world, that no funds would be forwarded if no funds were donated for their specific causes.
Since 2008, Pastor Burns has continued in ministry as a Pastor of several churches in North Carolina and Tennessee, leading to his new ministry involvement as the Lead Pastor of Life Church in Stevensville, Montana with his wife Pamela.
We are open to adding charter churches and those seeking credentials through LifeApp, but our same standards of membership, discipline, procedures and operational structure still remain as laid out in our Constitution & Bylaws, Doctrinal and Mission Statements, and our requirements for regular reporting from ministers and districts as laid out in our official documents.
We remain an association of churches and ministers, embracing those who seem to feel disenfranchised from larger denominations due to life situations that may disqualify them from credentialing or official recognition that they may need to establish new churches, or even officiate at marriage or funeral services. We are not a Universal Life Church, and are not associated with them in any way. Credentialing from LifeApp requires a rigorous application and interview process by the Presbytery.