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Hot Chocolate Day was a success!
Published by Jeff, on November 30th, 2006 in Evangelism, Front Page, Lafayette, Prayer Requests.
Last Friday, we experienced a great success in ministry. We served people free mugs of hot chocolate and coffee in front of Wal-Mart. It was a great experience.
It came to me on Black Friday
The whole idea came to me last year on the day after Thanksgiving (“Black Friday” as it has been called) while I was standing in line at a Best Buy store in the bitter cold of November in Chicago. » Click here to read the rest. «
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sharemytestimony.org
Published by Jeff, on November 10th, 2006 in Church Planting, Evangelism, Front Page, Geekery.A new website has recently been created by Justin Carboneau called sharemytestimony.org with the primary purpose of giving people a place to share their personal testimonies online. It’s an interesting concept, and his web design isn’t half bad, but I’m personally unsure of the value such a site might have. From the website:
This site was started to encourage people to share their testimony about how they came to have faith in Christ. It is also meant to inspire people to grow in their relationship with God, by seeing how God has worked in the lives of people across the world. My hope is that every Christian who visits this site will share their testimony, because everyone who accepts Christ as their savior has an incredible story to share with the world.
What do you think?
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Tonight at the Skylight
Published by Jeff, on November 10th, 2006 in Church Planting, Front Page, Lafayette.All I can say is that God must like it when I’m working on the computer (sometimes) because tonight at the Skylight, I found out that one of the computers had a virus on it. I’ve worked on those computers before, so Kim told me I could take a look at it.
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Low Cost Print Houses: Postcards, Flyers, Business Cards
Published by Jeff, on November 9th, 2006 in Church Planting.I got a tip from Gary Rohrmayer about this website that is offering 5000 full color (on one side) post cards for only $99! and 5000 business cards for only $99!
Other sites:
- colorcopysite.com <- $0.15 color prints!
- www.onlineprinthouse.com
- www.printsmadeeasy.com
- www.usapostcards.com
- wholesaleprintingdirect.com <- also provide mailing services!
- www.overnightprints.com
- copy world
- http://www.48hourprint.com/ <- also do mailing services and more options than overnightprints.
- theflyercompany.com
- 5000 4″ x 6″ Flyers/Postcards On Thick 12pt C/2/S Cardstock (Does not include Design)
- Limited Offer: $175
- http://postcardmania.com/default.asp <- also do full service mailing services & design work
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“Thanks for being obedient”
Published by Jeff, on October 30th, 2006 in Front Page, Lafayette, My Spiritual Life.I was driving around today running an errand for the church, so I decided to make some phone calls to try to connect with some people. There’s one fellow that I have been trying to get in touch with for a while, and as I was going through my address book, I saw that he was the next one on the list.
I wasn’t interested in calling him at that moment, though because I had been thinking about getting in touch with the head of Purdue’s Campus Crusade ministry, and that was on my mind, but this fellow was the next one on my list, so I just decided to call him anyway.
He picked up the phone and as always seemed very excited to hear from me, but this he was even more excited and told me about a couple guys he’s been sharing his faith with. One of those guys was there with him and wanted to talk to me! I talked with him for a bit and suggested that he go through our Bible 101 program. He seemed interested, and I said that maybe all four of us could get together sometime to start it.
He passed me back to the first guy who then asked me, “So why’d you call me? Were you just thinking about me or what?” I told him that actually I had been calling to see if he would be willing to let me lead a Bible study at his house for him and some of his friends, and that it seemed like he already had some guys who would be interested. He said, “Well, that seems like something God wants me to do!”
Then, just before we both hung up, he said, “Thanks for being obedient.” There’s no way he could have known what an encouragement those few words are, but they were. I hadn’t really felt like making that call at that time, but it was just about the perfect time for the call, and he knew it, so he said, “Thanks for being obedient.”
So let me be the first to say to you, if you have been struggling with something and you aren’t sure whether you should follow God’s promptings or not, do it, tell me, and I’ll say to you, “Thanks for being obedient!”
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Our Information Meeting
Published by Jeff, on September 14th, 2006 in Church Planting, Front Page, Lafayette, Prayer Requests.It has been a while since my last post here, but that’s been for a good reason. For the past month, I’ve been working on getting ready for Southside Church’s first public information meeting. We held it last Sunday evening at McCutcheon High School here in Lafayette.
For the past month, we have been putting together marketing materials, soliciting donations, securing the location, and organizing the service. We passed out by hand maybe 800 invitation postcards and mailed about 100 to our mailing list. We put flyers up at local businesses, we sent out email invitations, and we talked about it to everyone we knew.
It ended up being a really good evening. Here are the details:
- It was September 10, 2006, 6:30pm – 8:00pm in the choir room at McCutcheon High School.
- Tarah Kitchell of Tender Loving Childcare (TLCC) provided the children’s program.
- Doug Griffin, Kurt Kincanon, and Chip (?) provided the music.
- Buffalo Wild Wings donated 250 wings.
- Euro Cafe II donated about 6 thermal carafes full of gourmet coffee.
- LA Fireworks donated table coverings and such.
- Chick-fil-A donated 150 brownies.
- The Carpenter’s Son bookstore donated at least $100 worth of merchandise!
- One count had over 40 (43 I think) people in the main meeting room and we also had 11 kids and 3 workers outside with the children’s program. That put our total at nearly 60 for the evening which was exactly what we wanted in terms of numbers.
- Special guests were Brad Bush, pastor of Maple Ridge Community Church and chairman of TEAMM (Tippecanoe Evangelical Association of Ministers and Ministries), Gregory Hackett, pastor of First Assembly of God, Justin Hutts, associate pastor at Battleground Bible Church, and Gary Rohrmayer, director of Midwest Church Planting. My coach Rich Wollard wasn’t able to make it so he sent us a video clip that got lost somewhere in the tubes of cyberspace.
We sang some songs, some guests spoke for a few minutes, I gave a vision message, and then I entertained some Q&A. After that, everyone filled out a “level of interest” survey, we had a closing song, and Greg Hackett gave some final encouraging words and a closing prayer.
All in all, it was a great evening! I plan to post some video of it soon.
Thank you for your prayers.
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I recently discovered this website that claims to “love church planters.” To prove it, they have provided free resources, and all you have to do is send them an email. I’ve sent the email, but haven’t downloaded my stuff yet. Here’s the link for you!
http://www.churchleaderinsights.com/resources/church_planters.php
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