# Overflow Community Church **Summary.** Small congregation in Chambersburg, PA (meets at "The Tap," 642 Lincoln Way West), **commissioned as a church plant by DOVE Christian Fellowship International in Fall 2006** and currently self-described (site updated 2025) as "a partner church with DOVE International… DOVE provides oversight to Overflow." That "oversight" is, in DOVE's own defined vocabulary, apostolic covering — protection, direction, correction — flowing up to the DOVE International Apostolic Council. **NAR by network affiliation and governance structure, at the soft end**; its local public expression is generically evangelical-charismatic. Full dossier: [[DOVE International and Overflow Community Church]] (Religious Research). ## Core Facts - **Leadership.** Doug Lehman, "Lead Elder (Pastor)" — DOVE's term, not "senior pastor." Elders: Kevin & Sharon Baer, Jen Lehman, Lisa McCullough; elder interns Lenworth Gordon, Sue Sellers. - **Origins.** Roots at NETwork Ministries Chambersburg; founding vision included "the start of new churches locally and internationally" (DOVE's church-planting-movement mandate). - **Structure.** Weekday "Life Groups" — the DOVE cell model. - **Beliefs page markers (soft).** Spirit-filling with "supernatural gifts"; God "releases supernatural abilities to us" (impartation register); "Holy Spirit" as bare proper name (Bethel-adjacent stylistic tell); "spiritual family… encourages, honors, challenges" (Kreider spiritual-family/honor motif); marriage one-man-one-woman. - **Absent from public materials.** Apostle/prophet governance language at the local level, Seven Mountains, dominionism, election prophecy. - **YouTube.** @overflowcommunitychurch1832 — worship setlists and guest speakers **unverified**; flagged probe against the worship-vetting filter (Bethel/Hillsong/Elevation/Jesus Culture/Maverick City). ## Calibration **Structurally/genealogically NAR via DOVE covering — documented in the church's own words.** Hard-NAR local expression — **not established.** The NAR-family distinctives Overflow inherits live at the network level; the congregation presents as a low-key community/cell church. This is precisely the profile that makes soft-covering churches hard for congregants to evaluate: nothing on a Sunday looks like Bethel, while the governance and tithing architecture run translocal. > [!contradiction] > **Local face vs. network spine.** Overflow's public statement of faith would pass most evangelical sniff tests; the single sentence "DOVE provides oversight to Overflow" carries the entire apostolic-covering structure. Evaluating churches like this by their local materials alone systematically under-detects NAR alignment — the unit of analysis has to be the network. ## Why This Matters for St. John's UCC Overflow is the **soft pole** of Chambersburg's NAR landscape; [[World Harvest Outreach (Chambersburg)]] is the hard pole. The two are joined by the [[danny-silk|Danny Silk]] honor-culture mechanism (Silk featured at DOVE's 2025 conference; the WHO Durniak honor ceremony operationalized his framework) — see [[NAR Fallacy Taxonomy]] §D.24/§F.44. Ex-Overflow congregants may present with covering/spiritual-family formation but few visible red flags. ## Open Threads - Worship music sourcing (YouTube archive probe). - Possible Lehman family link to Living Faith Chapel founders (Galen & Jeannie Lehman, 1982) — surname overlap only; **unverified**. ## Related - [[DOVE International]] · [[DOVE International and Overflow Community Church]] (dossier) · [[World Harvest Outreach (Chambersburg)]] · [[Oasis of Love]] · [[Living Faith Chapel]] · [[Translocal Networking, Local Isolation]]