PRAY PRAY PRAY part 2: Weather Update

4 04 2007

The weather channel site is calling for a high of 38 degrees and chance of rain/snow. The local CBS weather station is calling for a high in the 50′s and partly cloudy. SO, either way you look at it the weather outlook is going down from the 60′s predicted earlier this week. Again we ask that all of you pray like mad for the creator of the weather to grant us His favor on Saturday. We are praying for divine connections at our event as we offer inflatable games to all the kids. We got signs made and connection cards. We trust in the Lord and in HIS mighty power. Thank you for praying. Here is a pic off of the local CBS news site. To keep updated go to www.kgwn.tv/weather


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"What did we get ourselves into?"

4 04 2007

In June of 2006 we (Grant & Terri; Sabrina & I) were shipped off to church planters boot camp. It was held at a resort conference center in Lancaster, PA. My kind of boot camp. It was 2 1/2 jam packed days of church plant training. Each session was taught by some incredible men of God who had gone down this road before. When we started the first session and they started telling HORROR stories of other churches, the valleys you’d go through, the tasks that had to be completed I literally said in my mind “What did we get ourselves into?”. But by the end of the boot camp what had gone from “There is no way we can do this” changed to “Man, we can do this” to “I can’t wait to do this”. The insights, truth, help, connections, etc. that we learned at boot camp were invaluable. I couldn’t tell you all we learned in 100 blogs. It really has helped us stay on task. I would definitely recommend anyone thinking of planting a church, or knows someone who is going to plant to spend the money and get to this boot camp. Otherwise you may end up in the middle of a plant and say “What did we get ourselves into?”


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Great leadership!

4 04 2007

I am such an outstanding leader that 2 of my staff guy’s have now followed my lead and started blogs about their ministry. Be looking for my book in the next few months “Outstanding Leadership: The Pastor, Mentor, Cluster, Coach Method”. Pastor Dan will write the forward for me. LOL Actually, IN SPITE of my leadership, two of our guy’s have started blogs. I think it’s very cool that they can tell their story as well, keep people connected, and share their wisdom on this church plant.

Grant Clark (Community Connections Pastor) www.elementconnections.blogspot.com

Adam Cruz (Lead Worshiper) www.elementworship.blogspot.com


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What element of Easter are you looking for?

4 04 2007

The catch line of our newspaper ad that was on the 2nd page of today’s Wyoming Tribune Eagle. It’s a color Ad so it pops out against the regular black ink of everything else. This is our first visible presence in the community. The Ad invites people to our free inflatable games during the city Easter egg hunt as well as encouraging them to find a good church in their neighborhood this Easter. Our Ad was influenced (we stole the idea) from direct mail piece that Journey Church in Bozeman, MT used for their Easter egg hunt they did 2 years ago. Since we are not an established church we liked the idea of being kind of covert. The opportunity to do this event arose later than we would have liked so using an idea from elsewhere made sense. There are so many good ideas that churches do, no sense in re-inventing the wheel. Maybe someday we can influence another church with an idea that works. I’ll post an image of our ad below. Not sure how well it will show up. It looks great in the paper. It’s a 3×3 Ad, little small on here but you’ll get the idea. You can click on the picture to download it in .pdf format to view the full size if you want.


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