For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Jeremy Baker on Growing a Church from 46 to 3,000 in Four Years
About this episode
Jeremy Baker, lead pastor of Elevate Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, joins Philip Cameron to share the remarkable story of how a congregation of 46 people grew to more than 3,000 worshippers across five weekend services in just four years—with 4,552 salvations and 600 baptisms recorded in a single year. Growing up on welfare in the streets of Detroit, Michigan, with a father in prison, Jeremy credits his entire trajectory to the moment someone introduced him to Christ. That personal transformation drives his conviction that "lost people reach lost people," and it fuels Elevate Church's identity as what he calls "a hope factory" and "a salvation station." Citing Mark 10:45 — that Jesus "came as a ransom for the many" — Jeremy argues that the vision of the local church is never about bigger buildings or budgets, but about relentlessly pursuing dying, broken, and lost people. Philip and Jeremy unpack the difference between churches in revival and churches in survival mode, the prophetic imagery of Zechariah 1 and the four builders God raises up, and why only 12% of Connecticut residents attend any church — making the Northeast one of the most urgent mission fields in America. Jeremy's church, ranked among the top 100 fastest-growing churches in the country, is launching its first campus in January. Learn more at www.ElementLifeCT.com.
Part of our Revival collection of conversations.
Quotes worth sharing
“Revival, for me, is not an event. It's a heart posture. And as soon as I lose my heart posture of revival, I have now become a comfortable Christian. I've become an armrest intercessor, where I don't move anymore.”
“Hell does not take a day off. But sometimes the church takes days off. It's like we take months off, weeks off, years off. Hell's always giving us a headache. I want to give hell a migraine.”
“Only 12% of people that live in Connecticut go to church. So what are we doing about the 88%? I feel like God's put a mandate on my heart. I'm 50 years old and God's put a mandate on my heart. I'm going to spend the rest of my life reaching people that are far from God. And not to be morbid, but death is coming after all of us. But I'm going to give death the greatest workout it's ever had in its life. I'm going to make death do CrossFit. Death, I'm not slowing down until God says I'm done. I'm giving God everything.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Jeremy Baker of Elevate Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, describes how his congregation grew from 46 people to over 3,000 in four years, recording 4,552 salvations and 600 baptisms in a single year. Raised on welfare in Detroit with a father in prison, Jeremy credits his transformation to someone who brought him to Christ — and that story now defines Elevate Church's mission. He draws on Mark 10:45 to argue the church exists for "the many," not for programs or prestige. Jeremy and Philip contrast churches in revival with churches in survival, explore why only 12% of Connecticut residents attend church, and discuss Zechariah 1's vision of God raising up builders. Elevate Church is launching its first campus in January.
- Church Growth: 46 to 3,000 in Four Years
- Revival vs. Survival in the Local Church
- Vision Must Never Be for Sale
- Lost People Reaching Lost People
- Only 12% of Connecticut Attends Church
- Zechariah's Four Builders for Today
- Stewardship, Accountability, and Making Heaven Crowded
Scripture in this episode
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, my friends. Welcome to "Daily Faith." My name is Philip Cameron, and I am so glad to have you with us today. I believe that God is doing a new thing in this world. I hear it all the time. I was watching, what's the guy's name? Beck. Who's his first name? Glenn. Glenn Beck. How could I forget such a thing?
Philip:And he was pushing the panic button yesterday on his broadcast. You better get some water. You better get some food. Oh my goodness. And I believe in being prepared, and we are prepared as a family and a ministry. All done, checked off the list, taken care of. But I am not going to be sitting in a back room with the door locked in the end of time. I'm going to be out in the harvest fields bringing the lost into Jesus Christ, because there's only one way, only one way between God and man, and that is the man Christ Jesus. Muhammad can't save you. Buddha can't help you. I'm really sorry to tell you this. If you know Jesus and you meet Him personally, He can transform your life today.
Philip:And if you're watching us and you're not sure of where your faith is put, let me tell you, there's only one place to stand on. There's an old Christian song, "On Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is shifting sand." I come from a fishing town back in Scotland, and I'm right on the rocks, cliffs, the most amazing place. And I've watched storms that would make you weep. In fact, they've just had one yesterday. My mom is 98 years of age in Scotland. I call her every day for an hour. And she was telling me yesterday, she says, "Philip, I'm 98 and I've never seen storms like this." And I says, "Mom, don't worry. It's going to come to an end, because no storm in your life is going to come and stay forever. It's only passing through. And after the storms come and the waters settle, the rock is still there, the rock Christ Jesus."
Philip:So I am so excited to have you with us. I really believe that this is one of those moments that God has set you up to hear a word from Him. Many years ago, I began a ministry in Moldova. I didn't want to go. My dad forced me to go to this orphanage in Romania in those days. And in that orphanage in Romania, I saw a wee boy standing amongst 200 kids, starving to death. And God spoke to me and He says, "That's your son," clear as I'm talking to you. And I went into the room and picked him up. He was naked from the waist down, covered in his own waste. And I said, "I don't know what it's going to take, but I promise you I will not stop until I make you my own." And that's 36 years ago, and that was the hook that God put in my jaw that has caused me to work for 36 years rescuing the perishing, loving kids that have no other hope in the world, and telling them there's hope in Jesus.
Philip:And those kids, we take them into a place, an amazing place called Vatra Village. It's a village of homes on the largest lake in the country. And we go, and these kids come to us, primarily girls. We have a boys' home also, but primarily girls. And they come to us, and we put them back in school. We give them a reason to live. We tell them of Jesus, and they find the Lord as their savior, and then they become missionaries. Every girl you're looking at right now, apart from the lady in the front, she's the house mother, who was once a girl that we rescued many years ago. But these kids are worth $300,000 each a year if a trafficker gets ahold of them.
Philip:And I don't think that's what their destiny is. I believe that their destiny is in Jesus, and to go and be educated and become missionaries and find a husband and have babies that will serve the Lord Jesus. And that's exactly what's been happening. Most of our homes, the house parents in the homes at Vatra Village, that's the village that we have, most of the parents in the home were kids we rescued 15, 20 years ago. And here they are now. They're the ones that actually do the daily work of the ministry. In fact, my wife and my daughter Melody was just there a few weeks ago with a church from Texas called Elevate Life, and my daughter Melody sent me a wee video from there. Watch this.
Melody:Hi, friends. I'm here once again at our Promise House in Ungheni, Moldova. Some of you may not know what Promise House is. Promise House is for kids under 16, from babies up to graduating high school. So that is what Promise House is. And we've got a team. We've been giving you updates of all the construction inside the house. But today, this week, it's beautiful weather here in Moldova, and we've turned our efforts outside lately, because we've been so busy inside, our outside has gotten a little bit neglected. So we're continuing work here at Promise House.
Melody:If you've ever considered donating to Orphan's Hands, and maybe you haven't in the past, but have been thinking about it, I'm going to challenge you today to take that step and say, "God, I'm going to let you use me in the life of a child, a child that has been abandoned, a child that's been abused, a child that's been neglected. Their parents have disappeared. They don't even know where they are. But God, today, I'm going to be the one that comes to them, running to them willingly to help and give and love." So we need you. We need your support. We need your love. We need your generosity so that this house is not just a home. It's not a safe covering. It's not a warm bed. But it's a place where these kids can come to know Jesus. So if there's ever a time to get involved, now is the time, and we need you.
Philip:Thank you so much, Melody. If you see over our shoulder, there's an unfinished house, and our plan was for next year to start working on that house, finish the one that we're in that is almost done, and start again next year on the second house. When they were there, when Chrissie and Melody were there and the team from Texas, they went to a house where our kids had visited. Our kids minister all through the year, whether it's in camps or in the villages. Each of the homes in our village adopts a village outside, and we love the lost and the broken in the village.
Philip:And there was a family with nine kids, an alcoholic, abusive father. The story is so familiar to us. It happens. This is the norm. And this father was beating the mother, and she'd had nine babies. She was 33 years of age. And we brought some stuff for them. We even brought bikes for the kids to play on and stuff for their house. And when we went back, when my wife went back, the mother had killed herself because she discovered she was pregnant with her 10th child, and she could not take it anymore. And here was nine kids with a grandmother that's sick herself and can't care for them.
Philip:And we have made a decision to try to get these kids. It's going to be a challenge, but the thing that's stopping us from trying is we've got to get this house finished. And those bare walls need to be finished. Our goal and our dream would be to keep the family all together, all the brothers and sisters, to move into the house. And that's the challenge. It's going to cost $100,000 to get this done. Can you help us make this miracle happen? You have destiny at your fingertips. You can reach out today and say, "We want to be a part of this miracle."
Philip:Every home we open, whether it's Vatra Village, we have a home in Odesa, Ukraine, also, which is under continual threat of the Russian bombardments and their drones. We've had some video of our kids literally caught in the middle of one of these attacks. And every house we open, it needs 300 people giving $1 a day. You can open a whole house and rescue all these kids for $1 a day. Won't change your world, but it sure will change theirs. And I sure would appreciate your help if you reach out with us and do that. There are businessmen watching that can say, "Philip, I can help you finish that house today. Get on it, and let's try and rescue a whole family of kids."
Philip:It's real simple. Make a check out to The Orphan's Hands, PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. So easy. You can also go to dailyfaith.tv. There's a giving page there. And make sure you put on there for the new house. If you say for the new house, we'll know exactly where that money's got to go. And we have an 800 number, 1-833-DAILYFAITH. Just dial 1-833 and then spell out daily faith on your phone, and a real live, not an AI person, but a real live person will pick up the phone and receive your gift for us. You are never closer to the heart of God when you care for the widow and the orphan. If you give to the poor, the Bible says, you lend to the Lord. And so I just challenge you to be a part with us for this miracle that we are believing God for in Jesus' name.
Philip:Years ago, we went to a church in Frisco, Texas, called Elevate Life, a tremendous church. In there was a young man that was on the pastoral team there, and he has gone to Connecticut, which isn't exactly the hive of evangelical explosions. And he has had a Holy Ghost evangelical explosion, and his church is growing like a — I was going to say a weed. I don't like that. Like a mushroom, as God is blessing him. And I'm so thrilled he is with us. It's recognized as one of the top 100 fastest-growing churches in the whole country. Number four in '25. He's slipping. Only number five in '26. Oh, my goodness. The world is coming to an end. But I recognize God on his life, and I'm honored to have him with us today. Jeremy Baker. Jeremy, thank you for being with us today on "Daily Faith."
Jeremy Baker:I'm honored, sir. Thank you so much for having me today on your show. Appreciate it.
Philip:Now, I called you when we connected our video for the program today. I was ready to commiserate with you because you're Connecticut, and you're in Florida, and all my sympathy and all my care and love went straight out the window. I thought, "That rascal is down there enjoying the sun." And it's a rainy day here in Tennessee. So I just want you to know, I've got no sympathy for you.
Jeremy Baker:Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you.
Church Growth: 46 to 3,000 in Four Years
Philip:You are witnessing firsthand the explosive power of God working in a church community, and you are watching your church grow. I know this because I know many pastors with churches that are exploding, that it's happening beyond you. It's such a God thing that you're almost a witness to what God's doing.
Jeremy Baker:Yes, sir. Yeah, I don't have the ability to grow a church the way this church has grown. I don't have the intellect. I don't have the — my generation would say game. I don't have the wisdom. It's all God. God has done something so supernatural. We started with 46 people four years ago, and now the church has exploded over 3,000 people, five services a weekend. We're launching our first campus in January, which is 20 minutes away from our broadcast location. So it's been a move of God like never before. 4,552 people have committed their life to Jesus in four years. That's growth. We've baptized — we baptized 600 people already this year. So it's been a true bona fide miracle, and I'm just thankful every day that God allows me to steward it. I'm just grateful.
Philip:We're living in a time just now when there's almost like a negativity in a lot of the churches. Now, there are some that are flying, but I hear — I'm in a unique position because I travel in churches and speak in churches. So I'm a mentor to a bunch of guys, so I get a cross-feed of different churches. And in one day, I'll have a call from a pastor that's saying, "We're going under. We can't pay the bills. Things are desperate. Oh, my goodness." And yet at the same time, another pastor will call me and say, "Man, I need to call you. I don't know who else to call to celebrate with me because we are absolutely killing this. It's growing and God's moving." Tell me the difference between the two churches. Why is there a difference between revival and survival?
Revival vs. Survival in the Local Church
Jeremy Baker:Yeah, Pastor Philip. I think for me, the vision's not for sale. We cannot sell the vision of the church. It is about people. It's about dying, broken, lost, desperate people. It's not about bigger buildings. It's not about more seats, more butts, more budgets. It's about people. And if we don't go after people, we've missed the whole vision of why Christ came. He said he came in Mark chapter 10, verse 45, he came for the many. He gave his life as a ransom for the many. There are many people in our community that need the Lord, that need the desperate hand of God, and we are called to the many. We're not just called to have good programs. Nothing wrong with programs. Nothing wrong with pathways of discipleship. Nothing wrong with people being part of special events. But revival, for me, is not an event. It's a heart posture. And as soon as I lose my heart posture of revival, I have now become a comfortable Christian.
Vision Must Never Be for Sale
Jeremy Baker:I've become an armrest intercessor, where I don't move anymore. I used to be moved by prayer, but now I'm not moved anymore. Now I'm just sitting. And so for me, it's like, God, if you're going to give me people, I will steward it. I will steward to the best of my ability as a human being. I'm not a perfect man. I'm a broken man that found the Lord, that God healed my heart. And so I want to just be faithful with what you put in my hands. Because I believe, Philip, I believe that God will not bring more people to you if you don't steward the people that you have now well.
Philip:A lot of people will say, "If we just have 1,000 people in the church." Let me tell you something. God won't give you 1,000 people until you have the means to love and care for and grow and develop 1,000 people. I talk to churches all the time, and I'll say, "You guys are talking with, we want to have this." If you're not prepared to have it in your mind and in your spirit, God won't release that into your world because it would destroy you. Most churches would be destroyed if 500 more people showed up this weekend. Most churches would sink under the weight. They don't have the parking space. They don't have the people at the front door. They don't have the system in place. My son, Andrew, that you know, he's just had his second baby, and she is fingers and toes and dark hair and ears. But let me tell you something, she's only as good as her heart. She can lose some fingers and still live, but if her heart isn't right, if her heart isn't pumping that blood, she's an invalid. And a lot of churches don't have the heart, as you're talking about, to keep the church healthy and strong. And we die around the edges, unfortunately. And it seems that God's given you the heart for the world, and by doing so, he will bring the world to you.
Jeremy Baker:Yes, sir. I think for us, for me, just coming from a broken life. My dad was in prison. I grew up in the streets of Detroit, Michigan, on welfare. And then someone brought me to Christ, and because someone brought me to Christ, I just feel like my whole journey for me is to let people find what I found. Lost people reach lost people. And so for me, I was lost, but now I'm found, and so I want to help the lost find Jesus. And I just know what God's put in our church's heart, that we're going to care for people really well. We're going to steward this thing to the best of our ability. Hell does not take a day off. But sometimes the church takes days off. It's like we take months off, weeks off, years off. Hell's always giving us a headache. I want to give hell a migraine. I want to reverse it. I want to say, "Hey, God has put something in me. I've got courage. I've got faith." Our church is a hope factory. Our church is a salvation station. Our church is about helping people win in life. And not just win to get more for your own home. To win so that you can win more people, so that you can see more people coming to Christ.
Lost People Reaching Lost People
Jeremy Baker:So for me, what God's put in our hearts, Connecticut, the Northeast, used to be a place of revival. It used to be a place of the Great Awakening. And now only 12% of people that live in Connecticut go to church. Only 12% go to church. And that's any church. That's a Catholic church, a Presbyterian, Methodist, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Assembly of God. It's all denominations, across the board. So only 12%. So what are we doing about the 88%? What are we doing about the 88% of people that are not going to a place of worship, a community, a place to worship God? So I feel like God's put a mandate on my heart. I'm 50 years old and God's put a mandate on my heart. I'm going to spend the rest of my life reaching people that are far from God. And not to be morbid, but death is coming after all of us. But I'm going to give death the greatest workout it's ever had in its life. I'm going to make death do CrossFit, do whatever I got to make it do. Death, I'm not slowing down until God says I'm done. I'm giving God everything.
Only 12% of Connecticut Attends Church
Philip:Well said. And that's the attitude. There are a lot of folk that would look at 12% and say, "Oh my goodness, it's a desert. There's no point in starting a church there." But the guy with the right attitude, there's an old saying, two men looked out of prison bars. One saw mud, while the other saw stars. It all depends where your eyes are looking, whether you're seeing a disaster or an opportunity. And when you're looking at a place where 12% go to church and 88% don't go to church, if you're a rescuer, if you're a redeemer, if you're someone that wants to be the answer, you're thinking, "Oh, my Lord. I've got 88% of the population that are there for me to come and get." And if you have that attitude, what happens is that begins to attract other people of like minds, and you build a combine harvester where all the church gets involved in the harvest.
Philip:And when I was a kid back in Scotland, my mom would take us out around the countryside in our wee town in Scotland, and we would stop at a field in March usually, April sometimes, in March mostly, when the lambs were being born. And we would stop, and we'd sit on the gate and watch, and you'd watch maybe 5 or 10 lambs being born all at one time. And the shepherd was there watching, making sure everything was all right. I've never ever seen a shepherd give birth to a lamb. Shepherd don't give birth to lambs. Shepherds create the environment for the sheep to reproduce, and for the sheep to have babies. And what happens is, once you create that environment, that evangelistic outreach, we're going to take the world for Jesus, 88% is ours for the taking, then that's how you become one of the fastest-growing churches in America because you are doing what Jesus told us to do: go into all the world and preach the gospel.
Jeremy Baker:Stop, man, you're getting me preaching here. I love it. You're inspiring me, sir. You inspire me, so thank you. So that's us. That's our heart. Zechariah, the prophet Zechariah, in Zechariah 1, I think it's verse 17, 18, 19, he has this prophetic dream that the angels appeared and says there's four horns. But then, and the four horns represent horns of discouragement. God's people had been in Babylon for 70 years. They'd been discouraged. Now they're coming back to their homeland. And he says, "I'm raising up four builders. I'm raising up four carpenters." That's what we need today. We need builders. We need church builders. We don't need church critics. We don't need people to get on social media and blast people for winning people to Christ. We need people to rally people that are winning people for Christ.
Zechariah's Four Builders for Today
Jeremy Baker:What you guys are doing in Moldova, what you guys are doing for the orphans, what you guys are doing for kids that nobody else wants to touch, that's what we need to be rallying behind. That's what we need to be a part of. Jesus is coming back, you know, sir, he's coming back, and we better do our part because if not, we're going to have to stand before him. And we're going to have to give an account whether we were a lazy Christian, a sitting Christian, a complacent Christian, a we-didn't-care Christian. And I don't want to be that. I want to say, "God, I wasn't perfect. I didn't have it all together on everything that maybe in my own journey spiritually, but I gave you everything I had every day. I loved you to the fullness of my heart. I cared about the poor. I cared about the dying. I cared about the widow. I cared about the single dad. I cared about the drug addict. I cared about the guy that was shooting up. I cared about the kid that just lost his mom. And I did everything I could to reach them for you." And that's what I want to spend the rest of my life making heaven more crowded and making disciples that follow Jesus. Nothing else.
Jeremy Baker:If God blesses me, great. If I get a new car, hallelujah. But it's not about that stuff. It's about souls, souls, souls. When they came back from Babylon, there was a whole group of people that dragged all of the parts of the temple with them. They carried them all the way back to rebuild the temple. And you need folk in the church that remember how it was and remember the revivals and can speak life and hope. And they took the elements, the labor, and all of those things back from Babylon, back to rebuild the temple.
Philip:And we're looking for people in our generation, and you're one of them. You are, I know it in my spirit, that God has called you to drag the church back out of the captivity of whatever junk we've been in, and let's get back to rebuilding the church. Because He will build the church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
Jeremy Baker:Yes, sir. Yeah, so we're just honored. And again, I appreciate your ministry, and we want to be a part of it. And I was moved by the videos, moved by the story that you shared with me beforehand, that you climbed those stairs and you saw your son. And I'm just thinking how many people are not willing to climb stairs because they have just gotten comfortable. They've gotten tired. And I don't want to ever be that guy. I never want to be that person.
Philip:Just to catch the audience up on how I started the mission work, my dad made me go to Moldova, to Romania in those days. And we went to this orphanage. It was a horrible mess. And I just wanted to leave and get back to Scotland, drop him off, and fly back to my comfortable life in America. I'd written a book that had sold 300,000 copies. I was set, 37 years of age. I had a Mercedes in the driveway and a pool in the backyard. I'd done it all. All my boxes were checked. And this guy, my father, is making me go to this orphanage of all places. Never been to one in my life, didn't care about them.
Stewardship, Accountability, and Making Heaven Crowded
Philip:And we went around the place. I'm saying, "Okay, Dad, let's go. Let's go." And he says, "Let's go upstairs." I says, "No. It's all the same upstairs, downstairs, leave it." And he ignored me and went up the stairs. In the first room I went into was the son that I adopted, that God used to break my heart for the mission field. And sometimes you've got to climb a stair against your will. You've got to look past and say, "Why am I here? What am I doing here?" And I know you must have thought that once or twice in Connecticut. But suddenly, all the bits start coming together. And as I kept going back to keep him alive, basically bring him food to keep him alive, I fixed the roof, I put in toilets, and that developed into what we do today.
Philip:So listen, I think I found a friend here today, and I'm really excited to watch you and pray with you and stand with you and believe God with you for a mightier pouring of the Holy Ghost in Wallingford, Connecticut. Don't you tell me there's not a God in heaven, that he knows where Wallingford, Connecticut is. And elementlifect.com, there you go, it's up on the screen right now, is Jeremy's website. I want you, if you are in the area and you want to be used by God, go and be part of this crazy church that believes that we're not going to peter out. We're going to explode in the greatest harvest in the history of mankind. Jeremy, thank you so much for being with me today.
Jeremy Baker:Thank you. Please promise me you're going to come back.
Philip:Yes, sir. I want to hear you preach about some stuff. You just dealt with the forming of the church today. We've got a whole bunch more fish to fry, and I can't wait to have you back with me again on "Daily Faith."
Jeremy Baker:I'm honored, sir. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. And listen, I forgive you for being in Florida. It's tough, but God's worked on my heart.
Philip:Thank you for watching "Daily Faith" today. We appreciate you so much. Get on fire for the Lord. We're living in the most exciting days in the history of mankind. Thank you for watching us. We'll see you again. God bless. Bye-bye.
For over 25 years, the Cameron family has been changing the lives of orphans in Romania and Moldova. From providing running water, flushing toilets, and clean wells, to coal for heat, new windows, as well as food and clothing. They champion the physical needs of the orphans in these broken and desolate countries. Many of Moldova's orphans are saved from the horrors of trafficking through homes founded by the Camerons, and in the process, orphans become daughters and sons. They come to know their Heavenly Father and are forever changed by the love of Jesus.
God helped the Camerons lift these amazing young men and women out of darkness. Now, no longer orphans, they want to return and invade that very same darkness with the light of Jesus Christ. The Orphan's Hands equips these daughters and sons to become missionaries. Your monthly gift of $31 will allow us to rescue and take in more girls and boys, saving them from the hell of human trafficking. Your monthly partnership will allow us to care for those in The Orphan's Hands homes in Moldova and the Ukraine. If you want to join Philip and Chrissy in taking care of these precious young people, please contact us today by calling 833-DAILYFAITH. You can also give by going online to www.dailyfaith.tv, or by writing to Post Office Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. So many lives depend on what we do. Thank you for loving the lost.
Common questions
How did Jeremy Baker's church grow from 46 to 3,000 people in just four years?
Jeremy says it wasn't his own intellect or strategy — he calls it a supernatural move of God. The church started with 46 people four years ago, now runs five services a weekend, and is launching its first campus. He credits staying laser-focused on people rather than buildings or budgets, and stewarding well whoever God brings through the doors.
What does Jeremy Baker say is the difference between a church that's reviving and one that's just surviving?
Jeremy says revival isn't an event — it's a heart posture. The moment a pastor or church gets comfortable and stops being moved by the lostness around them, they become what he calls 'armrest intercessors' who no longer move. He believes God won't bring more people to a church that isn't faithfully stewarding the ones it already has.
Why did Jeremy Baker choose to plant a church in Connecticut, where only 12% of people go to church?
Jeremy sees the 88% who don't attend any church not as a discouragement but as a mandate. He grew up lost himself — raised in poverty in Detroit with a father in prison — and someone brought him to Christ, so he feels compelled to do the same for others. He says Connecticut was once a place of revival during the Great Awakening, and he believes God has called him to help reclaim it.
How many people have been baptized or made decisions for Christ at Jeremy's church?
Jeremy shared that 4,552 people have committed their lives to Jesus in the four years since the church launched, and they have already baptized 600 people in the current year alone.
What is Jeremy Baker's personal background, and how does it shape his approach to ministry?
Jeremy grew up on welfare in the streets of Detroit with a father who was in prison, until someone introduced him to Christ. That experience drives everything — he says lost people reach lost people, and because he knows what it feels like to be found, his whole mission is to help others find what he found. He describes his church as 'a hope factory' and 'a salvation station.'
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