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Showing posts with label general. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Sermon Series and community outreach
For those of you on the "inside" here at Element Insider you're going to get the sneak peak of our upcoming series. We'll be promoting it this Sunday at church. January 6th - 27th we are going to be doing a series called "Deal or No Deal" and talking about finances. In fact the first two sermon series of the new year are going to be topics that are literally drowning our society. Money and sex. Along with our Deal or No Deal series, we are going to be offering a FREE, one day Dave Ramsay financial seminar. Adam just got off the phone with a guy, who along with his Dave Ramsay certified brother, will be doing a full day's seminar on finances. Element Church is going to provide this seminar completely free to those in the community who may need a day like this. The seminar is highlighted on our new mailer going out, as well as our invite cards we got made. We'll also be doing an advertisement in the newspaper leading up to it. We'd like to launch a "Financial Peace University" Life Group following the event if we have enough interest, as well as someone to lead it. Below are the graphics for the invites of the upcoming series. All of our invites are done in a "rave card" size (3.5" x 3.5"). We order them from 48hourprint.com and their custom size options. VERY affordable.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Weekend Wrapup Additions
WOW! A couple of additions to the weekend wrapup. The office staff met today to evaluate our preview service. That's always fun yet challenging. Asking the questions "What can we do better?" "What needs to be fixed?" "What did we do well?" Hard questions to ask sometimes but I think when we are offering the GREATEST news imaginable we want to package it in the BEST package possible. Anyway, couple things totally not about what we did wrong or right that I wanted to add.
--- Our offering was $2118.61. Again, GO GOD! That is awesome! Several first time givers which we celebrate! Thanks God!
--- We had 24 volunteers. Yeah TWENTY FOUR. And they aren't just warm bodies to plug in, they are qualified, love the Lord, serve people, volunteers. We didn't beg, plead, or have 47 sign up sheets. We said "You have an OPPORTUNITY to serve your church and to serve your God." They took the opportunity. I hope we teach that well. Serving is NOT an obligation. It is NOT a duty. It is ABSOLUTELY one of the GREATEST opportunities we have as followers of Christ. To serve our God and serve other people.
Anyway, couple of extras for ya. CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN!
Following Christ,
Jeff
--- Our offering was $2118.61. Again, GO GOD! That is awesome! Several first time givers which we celebrate! Thanks God!
--- We had 24 volunteers. Yeah TWENTY FOUR. And they aren't just warm bodies to plug in, they are qualified, love the Lord, serve people, volunteers. We didn't beg, plead, or have 47 sign up sheets. We said "You have an OPPORTUNITY to serve your church and to serve your God." They took the opportunity. I hope we teach that well. Serving is NOT an obligation. It is NOT a duty. It is ABSOLUTELY one of the GREATEST opportunities we have as followers of Christ. To serve our God and serve other people.
Anyway, couple of extras for ya. CAN'T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN!
Following Christ,
Jeff
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Weekend Wrapup
I'm excited about this week. Fun getting ready for our next preview service. Here are some thoughts about today and the upcoming week.
--- Had 51 today at Unplugged. Again, had new faces. That is our constant prayer. Lord bring us new faces. Had several people gone today. We are currently touching about 70 - 80 lives regularly on Sundays through Element.
--- Had our largest offering to date today. Our people generously gave over $1400. As people connect with mission and vision they begin to give more. I believe that people WANT to give to something God will do.
--- Volunteers are picking up. We ran out of volunteer cards today. It was encouraging to see people and hear people talking about volunteering. Out of all the things in this process, that has been the most challenging to me. I feel confident we can get people to come see our "product" (I know bad word) but we MUST build teams well. If we don't have good teams and systems it won't matter how many come to our services. I tend to be a Maverick, wanting to do everything myself so again, I need to get better at that.
--- I am excited about this Sunday. Getting back in the theater, preaching, doing some different stuff in our service. It is our 2nd preview so not doing HUGE stuff but showing a different kind of Element service. Got a drama, and video feature this week. Wanting to show a different side of us.
--- I forgot to call my mom on her birthday this week. Didn't call till today (just a few days removed from Thursday). I am now known as the "Bad son" and bad in this case does not mean good.
--- We worked on building 2 more pieces to our stage today. It will be nice to have those added for preview.
--- I am amazed at all of this. That people want to come to our church. That God would choose me for this. That the team I have wants to work with me. BLOWN AWAY! God is so good. I have learned so much and can't wait to get started tomorrow morning early. Adam and I are meeting at 7 at the office tomorrow to finish the stage. Going to play basketball with a couple guys from the church.
--- OK, that's the update. Will blog some more this week about what God is teaching me and Element stuff. Thanks to all who follow!
--- Had 51 today at Unplugged. Again, had new faces. That is our constant prayer. Lord bring us new faces. Had several people gone today. We are currently touching about 70 - 80 lives regularly on Sundays through Element.
--- Had our largest offering to date today. Our people generously gave over $1400. As people connect with mission and vision they begin to give more. I believe that people WANT to give to something God will do.
--- Volunteers are picking up. We ran out of volunteer cards today. It was encouraging to see people and hear people talking about volunteering. Out of all the things in this process, that has been the most challenging to me. I feel confident we can get people to come see our "product" (I know bad word) but we MUST build teams well. If we don't have good teams and systems it won't matter how many come to our services. I tend to be a Maverick, wanting to do everything myself so again, I need to get better at that.
--- I am excited about this Sunday. Getting back in the theater, preaching, doing some different stuff in our service. It is our 2nd preview so not doing HUGE stuff but showing a different kind of Element service. Got a drama, and video feature this week. Wanting to show a different side of us.
--- I forgot to call my mom on her birthday this week. Didn't call till today (just a few days removed from Thursday). I am now known as the "Bad son" and bad in this case does not mean good.
--- We worked on building 2 more pieces to our stage today. It will be nice to have those added for preview.
--- I am amazed at all of this. That people want to come to our church. That God would choose me for this. That the team I have wants to work with me. BLOWN AWAY! God is so good. I have learned so much and can't wait to get started tomorrow morning early. Adam and I are meeting at 7 at the office tomorrow to finish the stage. Going to play basketball with a couple guys from the church.
--- OK, that's the update. Will blog some more this week about what God is teaching me and Element stuff. Thanks to all who follow!
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Weekend Wrapup
--- Got back from camp last night at 12:15 AM. We were locked out of our house. I had taken our extra set of keys with us and we could not find them anywhere. The kids where all in the yard crying (since they were awaken from a deep sleep) and we had our luggage in the driveway going through it looking for a key. Thankfully one of our windows was open and I put Jonah through there to go unlock the front door.
--- Saturday we had about 4 hours to kill before a wedding we had to attend. We were in Thermopolis, WY and needed to go to Ten Sleep, which is 59 miles. We decided to go "a long way" through the Wind River Canyon, which is a SPECTACULAR drive. Our Rand McNally Atlas showed that Wyoming State Highway 434 connected from Ten Sleep South to HWY 20 which came out of the canyon. We decided to take the detour and go on 434 up to the wedding. To make a long story short, 47 miles of the highway was just a ranch dirt road. And when I say "ranch dirt road" I mean a ranch dirt road. On some of it, it was just 2 tire ruts to follow. We were literally driving through people's ranches on a dirt road. In one Clark Griswold moment I had to honk the horn at a dead stop to get a cow off the road so we could keep driving. We were low on gas, ZERO cell phone coverage and in a part of Wyoming that most Wyomingites will NEVER see on purpose.
--- We had 44 at Unplugged today with 6 brand new people. It's amazing to see the new faces each week and hear how they found out about us. People are inviting friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc. Over lunch we counted how many "could have" been there by counting our regulars who were gone. We "could have" had 71 people today. That's crazy to me. Our next preview is in 2 weeks.
--- I am very tired. Preaching every night this past week and then getting home late last night, up early this morning to freshen up on my sermon and then off to Unplugged. Been a long week.
--- We are volunteering at the Thunderbirds Airshow this week. That will be cool. They were practicing today over Cheyenne and you could hear them flying over our house. Frontier Days is this here this week and the Thunderbirds come every year.
--- Preview is in two weeks. We have lots to get done before that happens. Adam is speaking this week at Element on our core value of Worship. Excited to hear him speak. He's doing a fantastic job with worship. Again, so nice having someone you trust leading the music.
--- My heart swelled with pride yesterday as my kids were asking for a certain worship song on a cd to be played in the van. They were singing right along. It was cool seeing them sing a worship song. Had to make God smile.
--- Got some stuff I want to blog about this week that I've found in my devo's. Stay tuned for that. Thanks for all your prayers and for those who are following along.
Following Christ,
Jeff
--- Saturday we had about 4 hours to kill before a wedding we had to attend. We were in Thermopolis, WY and needed to go to Ten Sleep, which is 59 miles. We decided to go "a long way" through the Wind River Canyon, which is a SPECTACULAR drive. Our Rand McNally Atlas showed that Wyoming State Highway 434 connected from Ten Sleep South to HWY 20 which came out of the canyon. We decided to take the detour and go on 434 up to the wedding. To make a long story short, 47 miles of the highway was just a ranch dirt road. And when I say "ranch dirt road" I mean a ranch dirt road. On some of it, it was just 2 tire ruts to follow. We were literally driving through people's ranches on a dirt road. In one Clark Griswold moment I had to honk the horn at a dead stop to get a cow off the road so we could keep driving. We were low on gas, ZERO cell phone coverage and in a part of Wyoming that most Wyomingites will NEVER see on purpose.
--- We had 44 at Unplugged today with 6 brand new people. It's amazing to see the new faces each week and hear how they found out about us. People are inviting friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc. Over lunch we counted how many "could have" been there by counting our regulars who were gone. We "could have" had 71 people today. That's crazy to me. Our next preview is in 2 weeks.
--- I am very tired. Preaching every night this past week and then getting home late last night, up early this morning to freshen up on my sermon and then off to Unplugged. Been a long week.
--- We are volunteering at the Thunderbirds Airshow this week. That will be cool. They were practicing today over Cheyenne and you could hear them flying over our house. Frontier Days is this here this week and the Thunderbirds come every year.
--- Preview is in two weeks. We have lots to get done before that happens. Adam is speaking this week at Element on our core value of Worship. Excited to hear him speak. He's doing a fantastic job with worship. Again, so nice having someone you trust leading the music.
--- My heart swelled with pride yesterday as my kids were asking for a certain worship song on a cd to be played in the van. They were singing right along. It was cool seeing them sing a worship song. Had to make God smile.
--- Got some stuff I want to blog about this week that I've found in my devo's. Stay tuned for that. Thanks for all your prayers and for those who are following along.
Following Christ,
Jeff
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