We were lucky to catch up with Jason Taylor recently and have shared our conversation below.

Jason, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear the story of how you went from this being just an idea to making it into something real.

Well, it all started from a call to prayer! Interestingly enough, I was not looking to start a church at all. I was already a Pastor at a church where my wife and I served for 11 years. When God told us it was time to go, it was one of the hardest decisions of my life. We heard the call to leave in 2018, but didn’t launch out until June 2019. That was the beginning of the most beautiful story that is still being written. My wife and I left that church with the blessing of our Pastors and started Revelation Church that month. It was the 5 of us. My wife Sonya and I, and our three boys, Carter, Caiden, and Caleb. They were all babies then. Carter was 4, Caiden was 2, and Caleb was a few months. We started in a hotel in the city and then in October of that same year, I got orders to deploy. So from starting our church to leaving it right in the beginning was a sure sign of failure, at least to me…but God had other plans! I preached to my church of 7-12 people while i was overseas via facebook live…and our church grew. Then, the pandemic puts us out of the hotel! I was stranded in the Middle East for a few months until we were able to get a flight home. By the time I returned, the hotel put us out due to safety concerns. So we moved into the parking lot of The McMannen Plaza, a business that was owned by my wife and her sister. God grew us and our church right there! We went into the parking lot with about 7 members, and for the next 8 months, we grew. By the time we left there and moved into our building, we had grown to about 40 members. We had no idea what to do next other than listen to the voice of God. We listened, and did what he said! We moved into our building and people started coming by the droves. We now have almost 400 members and we do two services each Sunday!

Jason, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Me, I’m from a small town called Hartford, Alabama. I joined the Navy in December 2005 and came to Virginia in 2006. I met wife here in VA and we dated for about 5 years before we got married! One of my most favorite jobs is being a husband and a father to my boys! My family is the most important thing to me, then my church! I love being a very present father and a loving husband to my wife! My role and assignment in life is to help people Believe in the Lord Jesus, Belong to a family of believers, and Become all that God intended us to be! There is nothing that anyone can tell me that will make me believe that this version of yourself that you are now is the best version of you! There is always more to you and more that you can do! I want to continue to help people realize and actualize their God-given potential and utilize their gifts not just in church but also in the marketplace! I am most proud of the testimonies from people who came one way, allowed the Lord to work on their hearts and now they are assisting others that were like them!

How do you keep your team’s morale high?

Team building is what I live for! I believe that you are only as strong as the weakest member of your team. I love to identify strengths and lean into them. Recognize weaknesses and build people up in those areas so that we have all things in common. Team members will execute at an extremely high level if you choose to be involved as the leader. We do not lead from the side, we lead from the front! We get into the mix with the team and encourage each other through challenges and we work together! It then becomes about the whole instead of the one. In what we do, it is never about us as individuals. We live to bring glory and honor to one, only! In staying true to this call, all who work alongside us, find the strength and courage needed to keep going. Seeing lives transformed keeps the morale high and making sure that we stay clean and pure before God and one another!

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

I think that, most of us who endured the pandemic would use this as one of the greatest stories of resilience. We had enough reason to quit and enough working against us to prove why we stopped, but God would not allow us. Even when the world was shutting down, we had a burning fire and passion to keep going! There was nothing that could make us stop then, and there is nothing that could make us stop now! God kept us and the people who were coming to the church. More and more people were coming and we would try to be as cautious as possible but it did not stop the healings and miracles that God did for us!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://Www.revchurchva.com
• Instagram: @revchurchva
• Facebook: www,facebook,com/revelationchurch
• Youtube: @revelationchurchva1108