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What was God saying? How could Mariners reach their community, in line with our vision established thirty years earlier, if there was no more space? Where would people sit? Where would they park their cars? There didn’t seem to be any answers to these big questions. Kenton was at a loss to solve the problem and wondered if his time at Mariners was coming to an end. Maybe God had a different person in mind to lead the people of Mariners into the future. One morning, Kenton walked up the steps to the Worship Center and thinking aloud, quoted the Israelites wandering the desert, “Have you brought us here to die?”
Weeks later, he got a call from South Coast Community Church—the church that formed after splitting from Mariners almost ten years earlier. South Coast was struggling and attendance was dropping rapidly and they wondered, what if they merged with Mariners?
Two churches with a common beginning who had spent years growing apart, began to pray about becoming one again.
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The combined staffs of South Coast Community Church and Mariners Church, now one as Mariners South Coast Church
Signing of The Declaration of Dependance reuniting two churches