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Kent A. Wagner Oral History
Wagner, Kent A. Stratton, Emily
Wagner, Kent A.
Stratton, Emily
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Oral history interview with Kent A. Wagner conducted by Emily Stratton in Wichita, Kansas, on June 20, 2013. Kent A. Wagner is the founder and lead pastor of Epic Church, a recent church-plant in the Wichita, Kansas, area. It launched in 2009 in Andover, a small community outside of Wichita, but faced many challenges in its early years. Currently the church is in a planning phase, preparing to re-launch itself in East Wichita in September of 2013. This interview discusses Kent’s motivation to begin Epic Church and how, logistically, he went about planting it. It also discusses many of the unforeseen surprises and challenges that Kent and Epic Church have faced, and how they have dealt with some rather turbulent beginnings. The interview finishes by talking about upcoming plans for the re-launch, the church’s strategy for experiencing congregation growth and building a more consistent financial and human resource base, and how the planning is going thus far. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas Project as part of a summer fieldwork internship funded by the Friends of the Department of Religious Studies.
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Oral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12524 in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas.
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2013-06-20
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Religious Studies Department, University of Kansas
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Epic Church (Wichita, Kan.), Church planting., Ministries and outreach.