About Kerry

Kerry Shook is one of today’s most gifted communicators offering a clear, contemporary and creative teaching style. He is the senior pastor of Woodlands Church, one of the fastest-growing churches in America.

Kerry and his wife, Chris, founded Woodlands Church, formerly Fellowship of The Woodlands, in l993; and since then, the church has grown to 17,000 in average attendance each weekend. Now Woodlands Church is one church in many locations with its Fellowship campus in The Woodlands outside of Houston and satellite campuses online, in the Humble/Kingwood/Atascocita area, Tomball and its newest location in Katy.

Kerry believes that church should be engaging and fun, calling it “The Best Hour of Your Week.” He strives to eliminate the barriers of boredom, unfriendliness and fear that keep people from experiencing not just religion but a relationship with Jesus Christ. His messages are relevant, and his illustrations memorable.

Chris is the Director of Missions and Women’s Ministry at Woodlands Church. Her missions’ work has touched thousands of under-resourced people locally and in numerous countries around the world. Her Women’s Ministry is one of the largest in the country providing fellowship, worship and Bible study opportunities to hundreds of women each week.

Kerry Shook Ministries is a worldwide television ministry that broadcasts to a local, national and international audience.  Pastor Kerry and Chris can now be seen by millions in 50 states and over 200 countries worldwide.

Kerry and Chris’ first book and New York Times Best-Seller, One Month to Live – Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life, was released in February 2008. The book encourages readers to face their own mortality and live life to the fullest. The OneMonthtoLive.com Web site supports total life fitness and allows people to take the 30-Day Challenge. In addition, the One Month to Live Nationwide Church Growth Campaign is designed to help pastors unleash their church’s potential.

Kerry and Chris have been married twenty-five years and have four children.

Our Mission

The Christ Experience

Our church is guided by The Great Commandment and The Great Commission. Our mission is biblically-based and relevant. Our mission is to reach people for Christ, grow them strong in Christ so they can go out and make a difference for Christ in the world.

"We believe in a great commitment to the great commission and the great commandment will grow a great church!"

The Great Commandment
"Jesus said, 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart...soul...and mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and Prophets hang on these two commandments.' " Matthew 22:36-40

The Great Commission
"Jesus said, 'Go and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.' " Matthew 28:19-20

To "Love God with all your heart" is "Worship."
To "Love your neighbor as yourself" is "Ministry."
To "Go...make disciples" is "Evangelism."
To "Teach them...all things" is "Discipleship."

What We Believe

About The Bible

• We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, divinely inspired; that it contains no errors in the original manuscripts and preserved by God for us; that it is authoritative for this church and each of us for every age.

• We believe that God exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three are one God.
• We believe God created the universe by His Power and Word.
• We believe that God is all knowing, all powerful and ever present.

• We believe Jesus Christ was sent by God the Father into the world to save sinners.
• We believe that Jesus Christ was virgin born, sinless in life and mighty in words and deeds.
• We believe Jesus was both God and man, that He was crucified for our sins, and was bodily raised from the dead. He then ascended to His Father’s side where He is head of the church and intercedes for believers.
• We believe Jesus Christ is coming again personally, visibly and bodily to reign as Lord.

About The Holy Spirit

• We believe the Holy Spirit is a person, is God, and has all the divine characteristics. He indwells all believers, baptizes and seals them at the moment of salvation. He fills them in response to confession of sin and surrender to Him.

About Salvation

• We believe that Jesus, through His death on the cross, provided salvation for all. However, to receive salvation one must repent of sin and trust Jesus Christ alone. The true believer is eternally secure and cannot lose his salvation. He may, however, lose his joy by sin and bring the loving discipline of the Father upon himself.
• All who have received Christ will at death depart to be with Christ in their spirits and at Christ’s return receive a new body which will be like His glorious body.

• We believe a New Testament church is a local body of baptized believers who have agreed together to worship Jesus Christ, edify the believers, evangelize the lost and minister to others.
• The church as two ordinances: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

  Baptism symbolizes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the new life we have in Him.
  
  The Lord’s Supper is a reminder of Christ’s death and anticipates His Second Coming.

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© Copyright 2008 Kerry Shook Ministries, a ministry of Woodlands Church
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