Gas Buy Down

12 05 2007

IT IS ON! Saturday, May 26th from 1-3 PM at the Exxon Big D gas station here in Cheyenne. We will be buying down the price of gas by .50 cents per gallon. Wish I could fill up. God has really opened up the doors on this one. Some people will ask about the cost/reward on this one. How many people will come to church from this? Maybe NONE! But this is the type of event that puts us on the scene. It starts to tell people who we are and what we will do. It labels Element Church as a church who is willing to do something TOTALLY out of the ordinary to show God’s love in practical ways. We have to get our church name out there somehow and we could pay LITERALLY thousands of dollars on advertisements or marketing to promote our church name. If I’m going to spend money I’d like to serve someone in the process. (Now there will be times when we just do an ad, but this is not one of those times) Since this is our first presence in the community it needs to be one of doing something for someone else. We’ve made some business cards to hand out (see below) with the intentionality of leaving off the location. This makes the person go to our website if they want to know where to get the cheap gas. We will do this on our press releases as well. I think this is a genius idea that we got from another church planter. People then see your web presence and can see what the church is about if they so choose. I’m fired up about this event. Please pray for good weather, for patient people, for the right amount of volunteers and for GOD APPOINTED CONNECTIONS. Pray that the right media outlets would pick this up to get our name out there. We’ll keep you posted on how this goes and have some pictures and video to share as well. (For some reason the website doesn’t show up on this image. It is correct on the card itself.)





Jonah

12 05 2007

Jonah went with me yesterday to the Soup Kitchen to help serve. Back in Gillette I had taken him one time to the soup kitchen and he hadn’t stopped asking to go back since. Two weeks ago he asked if he could go with me here. He said “Dad, do you know what I like most about the soup kitchen?” Thinking he would say something totally different he said “Serving people.” I immediately asked “What do we serve them.” I of course expected him to spout out “Food.” Instead he said something that made my heart leap. I don’t know if he knew what he was saying but he, without hesitating said “Jesus!”. He did AWESOME at the soup kitchen. He was in charge of serving the bread that was made. I really believe that little guy was serving Jesus yesterday. He ate lunch there, an ok ham and beans mixture in a bowl without complaining one bit. If you know Jonah you know he can be a hand full (or two hands full), but if you know Jonah you also know he can be one of the most tenderhearted and caring little boys there is. “We serve them Jesus.” I hope we remember that every time we serve.

Following Christ,

Jeff








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