5 /5 Natalie Haney: Cypress is a teaching and training church. Its passion for missions, evangelism, and discipleship makes it a very exciting place to attend that truly makes the purposefulness of Christianity real for me. I love seeing female faces in their leadership, including their extremely talented and motivated worship leader, Carrie. The churchs elders are also super active and are the "shepherds" of the church not just in name but by their actions. The pastor delivers engaging sermons, and he is brimming with energy and vision for the church. It is a non-denominational church with a very engaging mix of preaching and line-by-line bible teaching. We came in during a teaching series through 1 Peter. But during November they did a month of preaching on evangelism and had multiple guest missionary preachers; and then December was on the prophecies relating to Advent. They have no-fluff programs entirely focussed on educating and equipping the saints, and initiatives to promote congregants to forge Christ-centered relationships specifically for the purpose of encouragement and building each other up in faith. I really have never attended a church that was so full of intentional action but still had so much heart as to keep it from becoming religious or staunchly professional. This is a growing church-- not just in attendance numbers, but it is full of growing Christians being encouraged and taught how to make every moment of their lives impactful for Christ.