Abundant Life Fellowship was a new church plant by Pastors Doug and Janice Bird which they began in July of 1986. It was neither a church plant of an existing work nor part of an institutional church planting strategy. Hybrid graduates of both Assembly of God and Rhema training schools, they simply felt a burden for the city of Roseville and responded to what they perceived as a call of God to plant a church here. Pastor Bird also had, and still maintains, a central driving vision for his minist