Our Story

It was birthed by God’s pure will and desire to have a missional body of believers reaching the communities of New Braunfels, Canyon Lake and Bulverde/Spring Branch areas of Texas and beyond. Scott and Brandi Richerson and their family moved to Bulverde in 2015 as Scott was and active corporate executive in the automotive industry. Scott had served in ministry in a bi-vocationally since 2010. A conversation between the EFCA Texas Oklahoma district supervisor and Scott started the process in late 2016 as Scott entered into an assessment process that would last two months and culminate in affirming him in the ministry of church planting lead pastor.

Scott and Brandi would take the steps in early 2017 to begin serving Jesus in leading out in planting Stonewater Fellowship. In march of 2017 10 adults had been gathered to be the committed core team of Stonewater and God gave them the vision that there would be a body of believers that would be well equipped and fully deployed out into the world to live on the mission that Jesus gave the church and that is to engage all people into becoming multiplying followers of Jesus.

Scott joined in on a Bible study on a Wednesday night and the text was out of Ephesians chapter 4 – “Walk in a manner worthy of the calling by which you have been called”. On Monday of the following week Scott was at lunch with one of the Elders of that Church and after several hours there was an offer made to allow Stonewater to use the building to launch. With the Elders of that church in agreement, Stonewater entered into a three-year written agreement to launch out in worship gatherings in February of 2018. On February 10 of that year Stonewater Fellowship, 27 adults strong, launched into weekly worship.

Stonewater celebrated its first “Easter Weekend” as we were a Saturday night gathering seeing about 60 people in worship, as Comal Country Church, was meeting in the building on Sunday mornings. On that Easter Sunday, as Scott and Brandi were enjoying Easter Sunday at home, Scott received a phone call from Roger Corbin, one of the Elders of Comal Country Church, saying “their lead Pastor had resigned”.

Roger asked Scott to come and preach on Sunday morning as they sought was God would have them do as a church. Scott agreed to preach for 90 days and so for 90 days there was Stonewater Fellowship on Saturday night and Comal Country Church on Sunday mornings. Roger also asked if Scott and Bob Petruccio, Stonewater’s associate pastor, to join the Elders of Comal Country Church every Wednesday evening for prayer and discussion as to what might be next for Comal Country Church and Stonewater together.

Scott and Bob and Tim Donnell and Roger Corbin met and prayed and discussed what God might have them do. God had laid on the heart of Scott 4 deal breakers that would guide the conversation. No name change, no mission change, no denomination change, no doctrinal change. With these four set as the framework of conversation a time of discussion and prayer commenced.

In late May of 2018, the Elders of Comal Country Church came to believe that God would have them close the ministries of Comal Country Church and call the congregation to all join the ministries of Stonewater Fellowship. As well as donating the land and building that was owned by Comal Country Church to Stonewater Fellowship once Stonewater grew from a “church plant” to an autonomous church with in the EFCA. Transfer of ownership by donation for the 15 acres of land and ~8500 square foot building was completed January 2022.

On June the 3rd of 2018, there was no Stonewater Fellowship worship on Saturday and there was no Comal Country Church on Sunday; at mid-day there was singing and prayer and communion and lunch as the Church; the people of God, praising God and worshiping Him and being in community together, about 70 people, men women and children, were a part of that celebration. One Body of Jesus, One Church.

On Sunday June 10th of 2018 at 10:45 in the morning. The praise and worship team opened the worship service by saying “Welcome to Stonewater fellowship” as Stonewater began to gather together in its permanent gathering place.

Stonewater Fellowship sees about 100 people on Sunday mornings. We have launched two house churches. We are partnering with other churches to help launch two new churches and actively participating in continual missional work with ministry partners in the New Braunfels and Canyon Lake area. Scott, as the Lead Pastor, serves on the Partner Advisory Team of One Community Church, a church plant lead by Charles Wright out by Randolph AFB. He is a certified coach for church planters as well as a certified lead assessor of potential church planters.