REMERTON — As “Beautiful the Blood” by Steve Fee played in the background, Pastor David Rogers, dressed in his usual Sunday attire of a casual shirt and jeans, sat in his “warehouse” church and contemplated its phenomenal growth.

CrossPointe Church, which began meeting in Rogers’ home with only a dozen members two years ago, now has a congregation of 450 people worshiping in the rented facility at 1708 W. Gordon St. in Remerton.

Of the 102 Georgia Baptist Convention churches started in 2005, CrossPointe is one of the fastest growing in the state.

“It’s unbelievable,” Rogers said. “God is doing an amazing work here. It’s humbling to think we are a part of this.”

So successful is the work that Rogers will be speaking to the Georgia Baptist Convention Church Planting Conference Jan. 25-26 in Oconee as well as at the GBC basic training for church planters Jan. 28-Feb. 1.

“I am part of an impact team that teaches more of the practical aspects of church planting,” he said.

It was while Rogers was in school at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., that he received his calling from God to become a church planter — a pastor who begins new churches.

“God laid it on my heart to come back here,” said Rogers, who met with Benny Woods, former pastor of Greenwood Baptist Church in Valdosta and Mike Broadwater, associational missionary for the Valdosta Baptist Association.

“It was confirmed through those meetings that this was what God wanted us to do.”

The little congregation quickly outgrew the pastor’s home and began meeting at the Baptist Collegiate Ministries at Valdosta State University. About 1 1/2 years ago, CrossPointe began worshiping in its current facility, attracting a large number of college-age students with its uniqueness — a contemporary service with a praise band and casual dress, meeting in a very unassuming building.

“Our target group was young married couples and families,” Rogers said. “But initially, we developed a large college ministry and reached a lot of singles. Now it’s more balanced.”

The rapid growth of CrossPointe prompted the church leaders to have two services: one at 9 a.m. and the other at 10:30 a.m.

“There is no Sunday night worship service, but we do have discipleship training on Sunday night and all through the week,” Rogers said. “Our discipleship is accomplished through what we call life groups. They are meeting almost every day of the week. They are our care groups and Sunday School combined. We’re meeting in homes and places of business to meet the needs of individuals and small group Bible study. We do a lot of one-on-one discipleship.”

In addition to the pastor, CrossPointe has four associate pastors and a worship leader: David Goodson, family pastor; Michael Buffaloe, youth pastor; Jason Van Nus, college pastor; and Ben Eidson, connection pastor. Spence Parkerson is the worship leader.

“One of the most exciting things about our church is the team,” Rogers said. “God has brought a lot of these back to Valdosta to work. It has been amazing.”

Goodson’s ministry is for babies through children, including Discovery Pointe Kids for first through fifth graders who meet in Genesis School next door.

“Our goal is not to be the sole spiritual leader for children,” he said. We believe it is the parents’ responsibility. Our primary responsibility is to come alongside and help them do that. I refer to it as the orange philosophy with red representative of the home and love and yellow representative of the church to be a light to the world. It’s the coming together of those two.”

Parkerson leads the worship through music. The praise band often plays songs they have written themselves, including Scripture verses set to music.

“Worship is a daily response to God,” he said. “It’s an outpouring and overflowing of what God is doing in your life. Our job as a worship band is to bring people before the throne of God — to remind people of who God is and what He has done ... My job is to prepare people to hear from God.”

The worship band includes Janetta Evans, keyboard and guitar; Taylor Holder, vocalist; Josiah Steven, lead guitarist; Ronnie Weeks, drummer; and Josh Simms, bass. Another band, led by J.T. Cheek, does worship with the youth.

Rogers said the church is very missions oriented.

“We’ve been four times to New Orleans for Katrina (during the Operation Noah Rebuild). This summer, we will go to Turkey, the Yucatan Peninsular and Montana.”

CrossPointe will be constituted as a church Feb. 3 at a 6 p.m. service open to the community. Greenwood Baptist, Valdosta Baptist Association and Georgia Baptist Convention officials will be speaking. A reception will follow.

“One of the things I noticed about this church that is incredible is the unity,” Rogers said. “So many of our churches across America are divided. Why people find this church so attractive aside from the worship experience is the realness of the people here. People genuinely seem to have this love for one another. It is a portrait of authenticity.

“We are trying to offer something in our community where people can discover an authentic and very real relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ,” Rogers said. “What we desire to be is a catalyst to take people from where they are in life to this point.

“Basically, we are about two things — connecting people and seeking truth ... The first is to connect people with God, the most important thing in a person’s life, and secondly, to connect people with one another.

“Everything we teach comes out of God’s Word. We believe you can change the method of reaching people, but that you can’t compromise on the message.”

The church’s name says it all as CrossPointe seeks to “point people to the Cross, to the message of Jesus Christ.”