The announcement to launch RADIUS Carolina was made at our 19th birthday party. It might’ve been the hardest announcement ever to keep quiet as it was decided a few months before to move a new leader with lots of potential from RADIUS Church – Centerville (Jon Ross Fordree) replace him with another leader from RADIUS Church – White Knoll (Sean Coffey), and begin the process of opening a night church targeting an 18-25 year old demographic out of RADIUS Church – Southside. There were lots of moving parts involving our entire RADIUS Church family. It’s GREAT to be a team, to share people, and share resources to reach others for Jesus.

For five years, Ben and Holly Harrison called RADIUS Church in Lexington home. They brought friends and neighbors near them, and they even began a small group. The only problem was that this church body was close to an hour drive away. Wanting a church where they could serve their “radius” more effectively, the Harrisons and their small group from Saluda began meeting regularly and praying about what it would mean to become a church plant. Soon, RADIUS Saluda became its own and Trey Shealy grew into the leader of their congregation..

In 2013, RADIUS Lexington asked 75 members to “go” and plant a church in Red Bank, South Carolina—20 minutes down the road. This was the first church plant birthed not only from the resources of RADIUS Lexington, but from its members as well. Soon, John Reeves and his family returned from Dubuque, IA where he planted RADIUS Dubuque, and he began helping with the new church plant in White Knoll. RADIUS White Knoll met in a school for several years as well before receiving a building as a free gift from another church.

In June of 2003, John and Cheryl Reeves—who had just recently planted churches in Clemson, SC and Atlanta, GA—felt a stirring to head to the greater Columbia area to plant a church. John Reeves quickly began recruiting, and soon Salim and Amanda Khalil, Jeremiah Jones, and Duncan Pleming met in an apartment in Lexington, South Carolina. Six adults began praying, meeting, and preparing for God’s work in their area.

 The announcement to launch RADIUS Carolina was made at our 19th birthday party. It might’ve been the worst kept secret ever at RADIUS as it was decided a few months before to move a new leader with lots of potential from RADIUS Church – Centerville (Jon Ross Fordree) replace him with another leader from RADIUS Church – White Knoll (Sean Coffey), and begin the process of opening a night church targeting an 18-25 year old demographic out of RADIUS Church – Southside. There were lots of moving parts involving our entire RADIUS Church family. It’s GREAT to be a team, to share people, and share resources to reach others for Jesus.

For five years, Ben and Holly Harrison called RADIUS Church in Lexington home. They brought friends and neighbors near them, and they even began a small group. The only problem was that this church body was close to an hour drive away. Wanting a church where they could serve their “radius” more effectively, the Harrisons and their small group from Saluda began meeting regularly and praying about what it would mean to become a church plant. Soon, RADIUS Saluda became its own and Trey Shealy grew into the leader of their congregation..

In 2013, RADIUS Lexington asked 75 members to “go” and plant a church in Red Bank, South Carolina—20 minutes down the road. This was the first church plant birthed not only from the resources of RADIUS Lexington, but from its members as well. Soon, John Reeves and his family returned from Dubuque, IA where he planted RADIUS Dubuque, and he began helping with the new church plant in White Knoll. RADIUS White Knoll met in a school for several years as well before receiving a building as a free gift from another church.

In June of 2003, John and Cheryl Reeves—who had just recently planted churches in Clemson, SC and Atlanta, GA—felt a stirring to head to the greater Columbia area to plant a church. John Reeves quickly began recruiting, and soon Salim and Amanda Khalil, Jeremiah Jones, and Duncan Pleming met in an apartment in Lexington, South Carolina. Six adults began praying, meeting, and preparing for God’s work in their area.