Coby and Amy Bird: Real People

A few months after Amy and I were married in the summer of 2010 she expressed a desire to look at a smaller church where she felt more comfortable.  At the time we were attending a really large church in Fort Worth.  We enjoyed and we felt surrounded by a lot great people, however it was not a place we felt comfortable asking the questions we had.  One concern we had about leaving was finding another church that would provide for our children.  I had kept up with Steve and Thomas on facebook, and I had started seeing posts about them starting work in South Fort Worth.  We text and emailed a couple of times about finding a time to chat about what this church plant was all about, but life seemed to get in the way, and I did not pursue it.


Finally in the Spring of 2011, I found we had a teaching position coming open in our Bible department at Southwest Christian School, and I immediately thought of Steve.  I called him to see if he was interested, and he was.  So things worked out and he was hired on to teach, and we now had a chance to sit and talk about the Commons Church.  Amy, the girls, and I finally got over to visit one Sunday.  When we got in the car after that first visit, Amy declared, "I really like it there, the people seem real."  We then started attending the community group at the Bezner's house on Wednesday evenings and for the first time in many years I found a place where I was really spending quality time in the Word, and Amy felt very much at ease to participate without feeling judged.  It seemed we had found a fit.


Now a little over three months later we consider The Commons to be our home and we look forward to connecting with so many new friends each week and we look forward to seeing how God uses us as part of this community. 


~ Coby, Amy, Aza, and Elena Bird