Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Anyone a member of this church? I have a friend looking at going there that's in the area. Please PM me so I can ask some questions.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

:scorebad
Sorry about the liberal judge.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

:scoregood

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

For an average of 5.0. :lol

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

I don't go there but have visited a couple of times when in Austin and really enjoyed it. It is not a traditional Pentecostal church though so some won't like it.

Randy is a very good teacher / preacher but he is not the typical Pentecostal snorting and yelling red in the face kind.

it is a very laid back and modern type service with contemporary music and the preacher not in a suit at least some if not all of the time.

If your friend prefers a progressive UPC church then Rex Johnson's is not too far away.

Oh, and Randy's church is Promiseland West as opposed to the original Promiseland Church in East Austin pastored by his father Kenneth Phillips.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Thanks for the info! I may look into Rex Johnson's for them too.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Have him check out Apostolic Lighthouse UPC in Georgetown (just outside Austin) . Bro Donnie Huslage is pastor there. He isn't a "name" but he is a good pastor and a good guy.

It is a traditional UPC church but they don't beat people up over the outward stuff, they don't play head games, they have a solid home group ministry, I give them 100% endorsement. I don't do that much.

http://wec.upci.org/churches/locator...earchnum=21563

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Georgetown is a little more than "right outside Austin"!!!! When you leave Austin first you go through Pflugerville, then Round Rock and then you finally get to Georgetown.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Is Round Rock where Jeff Switzer pastors?

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

All good info! Thanks so much!

Anyone on here actually attend Rex Johnson's or Promiseland?

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Hearing those names brings back memories, went to most of my school years in Round Rock, Skateboarded in Pflugerville, jumped off cliffs into a large lakes outside of Georgetown. If I didn't live in California, the Austin area would be most likely where I would live.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Yup. I have a relative who has visited his church and really enjoyed it.

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If you have not been in awhile you would be amazed how that along the interstate from Austin to Georgetown it is just about one continuous stretch of development. Used to you really felt like you were driving to another town when you went from Round Rock to Georgetown.

I agree that Central Texas is a great place. It has just gotten too hot for me though. When I lived there a decade ago we had a few summer days in July and August that were 100+ degrees. Now most of the summer is in the triple digits. Year before last wen I was there in September it was over 100 and was somthing like the ninth day in a row it had been.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Get Al Gore to visit. That'll make it snow.

Personally, I won't go past the desert and into central Texas - and certainly not east Texas before about October. Human beings can't live in that heat and humidity.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

not so much, 10 minutes down i-35 doesn't exactly constitute a trek of epic proportions. o I used to live in Marble Falls and commute to Austin every day. Wasn't like I was recommending 1st upc of marble falls or asking the guy to drive to dallas.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

That explains a lot about me, huh? :ursofunny

I grew up in Dallas, but prefer East TX now. :) Although I really don't like the humidity.:sad

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

10 minutes on I-35 in metro Austin will only get you a few hundred yards most of the time! :tiphat

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Did an online look-up. Wow. There are a lot of "Acts 2:38" churches in Austin!

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

In the 80's I lived in Pflugerville and worked in Georgetown for a couple of years. Trust me it was not a 10 minute drive.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Yup. David Barnard and Rex Johnson both have fairly large UPC churches and Randy and Kenneth Phillips fairly large independent churches.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Oh alright... Fro Bergstrom Airport to 29 in Georgetown is

28.0 mi – about 27 mins (up to 45 mins in traffic

Nit picker....:nah

BTW I was baptized in Rex Johnson's Baptistry, our church in cedar park didn't have one.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Cedar Park? Is that church still around? You can PM me if you want...

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

nope. It closed around 1989

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Did it move?

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Ms. Peh,

There was a lot of UPC church turmoil in Austin around that time. Pastors were leaving and the ultra con wonder Keith Clark moved there and started a church. Somewhere along that same timeline David Bernard also started his church in Austin.

The result of all of the churn was at least two smaller Austin area UPC churches that I can think of closed and Rex Johnson stepped in as the new pastor of another UPC Austin church that was having trouble.

It has been relatively stable since then though as both RJ and DB have seen tremendous growth in their churches.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

No, it shut it's doors, the few saints moving to other churches in Austin. The pastor, Bro Robert Condrey spent the next couple of years working with Spirit of Freedom ministries.

Yeah. I was such a naive noob those days that I didn't catch on. I was still in that hyper innocent new convert phase where I just knew that all the people of God were absolutely perfect and loved one another with a perfect love and there was no such thing as church troubles. Nor did I realize there were "saved people" outside the UPC.

If I knew then what I know now I would probably just stayed a catholic. Blessedly 20 years has also brought on a little wisdom and quite a bit more tolerance, thus I remain Apostolic.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

I know what you mean. Your post here is one that makes me both want to laugh and cry at the same time!

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

It seems none of these churches have live broadcasts, except Promiseland.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

That might be right, Promiseland has always been progressive and aggressive with regards to its use of Technology. Kudos to them for that.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

You can buy DVD's or Promiseland West services. I believe they only use one camera but they still do a good job. I have one of them.

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Upload them online so we can view! :)

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Have you done a YouTube search? Someone may have already done that.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Bro John, do you know where the Condreys are now?

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

They are in Austin last I heard. Don't know exactly where.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

Thanks. We knew them, quite a few years ago, but have lost touch.

Re: Randy Philips - Promiseland, Austin, TX
 

randy is a good guy and a good pastor is what i hear, known him a long time, dt