- December 4, 2025
“Columpios! Columpios!”
Those were the words that long time Epic Church member Will Furry heard as the children of San Lucas, Guatemala, gathered around him while on his service mission there last month.
Seventeen missionaries from Epic Church in Palm Coast flew in the early morning hours of June 14 to help in Guatemala. This week long mission focused on ministering to the women and children of this impoverished area. Furry, a Flagler County School Board member, shared one instance that impacted him.
“The men were going to serve (the women) lunch," Furry recallled. "All of sudden these kids came up to me… They were asking me to do something… I had no idea what it was. Immediately I was pulled away from serving and my day was spent with these children."
Columpios means swings in Spanish, Furry learned.
"Later in the day we gave out water filters and one of those little girls’ family received a water filter," he said. "The mother said they had been praying for a water filter for years.”
Epic Church has been providing relief to this area in Guatemala for many years. Furry was able to reconnect with a young woman who he had previously met as a young girl and who, through the efforts of Epic Church, had been able to receive an education. She is now married and having her first child. During the mission, they were able to give her a baby shower and still show their support for her and now her new family.
New City Church, led by Trent and Andrea Griffith with the support of Parkview Church in Palm Coast, is trying to establish a new church in St. Johns County.
“Our goal as a church is to not increase our seating capacity, it is to increase our sending capacity," Pastor Greg Peters of the Parkview Church said in a Facebook video.
The Griffiths’ goal is to make “strong marriages and healthy families” through “enduring ministry…(with) intentional support and guidance."
No building yet has been established for the congregation, but prayer meetings are being held to determine the next steps. The first prayer meeting was held on June 29.
“Before God plants a church in any location, he plants that church in the heart of church planters," Trent Griffith said.
