LOST: New Sermon Series

26 08 2008

Hey Element Church!  Dont’ forget NO CHURCH THIS WEEK!  Go support another church here in town and volunteers, enjoy a week off.  Here is the promo video for our new sermon series.  You can email it from YouTube as an invite to any friends you may want to invite to Element next month.  Click on the video to go to YouTube.  In LOST we’re going to tackle issues of where we fit into God’s Kingdom.  How to determine God’s will for our lives.  And two weeks on coorporate and personal evangelism.  We are planning out some creative elements and set design for this series and are SUPER STOKED about it.  Can’t wait to kick off our Fall ministry at Element.


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Sermon Series Sneak Peek

18 04 2008

Hey Element Church! If you’re on the “inside” here you get the heads up on what’s coming next. We’re announcing our next sermon series Sunday, but you find out today. I’m super excited about this series. It’s called “Little Rascals: From Diapers to Diplomas”. It will be my first time EVER talking about parenting. I know not everyone is a parent and we will be intentional about making sure that each sermon can relate to everyone in all stages of life. I am DEFINITELY not the perfect parent and in already preparing for this series am being challenged. If you’re an Elementer and a parent, you need to be at this series. If you’re an Elementer and NOT a parent, you know parents and you need to be at this series. Anyway, here are the graphics for the series. Enjoy.


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Next Series

12 02 2008

Hey Element Church! Wow, has this year started off amazing with our first two series. I never would have imagined the reaction we got out of Deal or No Deal, or Satan’s Sex Ed would have been this. I knew they were two VITAL topics to our spiritual lives and two topics that were drowning our society but WOW! Well, our next series does not nearly compare in controversy BUT I am just as excited about it. I’m not sure I could take another series right now as heavy as these last two we looked at. This Sunday we’ll start promotions on our next series entitled “Heroes: Ordinary people living extraordinary lives”. I thought I’d give you a sneak peek here on the Element Insider. Check out our invite cards below. There is also some surprise Easter service news on there as well.





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2008 — What’s next?

27 12 2007

Wow is God stirring my heart. Had a GREAT planning session with Adam today and another good staff meeting. Some of the things we feel God calling us to do in 2008 are absolutely scary (financially, energy, volunteering). Although they are scary we feel like we MUST do them. Two things are coming in January that one is a MAJOR risk for a new church. Can’t wait to unveil it. (Staff keep your mouths shut) :) We’ve got some service projects in the works and have even begun planning for NEXT Christmas when we do our first Christmas Eve service.

I am VERY excited for 2008. We’re at that point where it could be easy for us to exhale and say “We made it”. We could easily level out, relax, get comfortable and call it good for a while. BUT WHY? Has God moved on our behalf? YES! Has He enabled us to grow and reach people for Christ? YES! But He still has more. Where will He take us? I don’t know, but I want to keep following so I can see. I’ll be sharing some stuff this Sunday about what God has been talking to me about personally and as the leader of Element Church.

I’m very excited about our next two sermon series. We’ve already received one phone call from someone who didn’t like the content of the mailer we sent out. One thing we will always do at Element Church is talk about the tough subjects. We’ll be doing that in January and February. Two of the most difficult subjects to tackle in church we’re taking on in two consecutive months. Money and sex. Below is the graphic for the mailer we sent out. We did the split graphic and saved some money by doing to series on one mailer. We’re not holding anything back in our sex series. There is a reason the church is silent many times on sex. THE DEVIL DOESN’T WANT US TALKING ABOUT IT. If we don’t, he gets all the airtime. Since it seems our country gets all their education about sex from satan, we’re going to expose what he’s been teaching through our series satan’s sex ed series.


We have our sermon calendar prepared through next Fall and I am really looking forward to some of the things we are going to do. The budget got completed yesterday and I feel really good about it. There seriously hasn’t been much more difficult, than preparing a budget for a full year, for a church that has existed for three months. We’re stepping out in faith on some of the budget items and we understand that there are some things that are unseen for us now that will come up. We’re really careful about tracking our spending right now so as to better budget as we grow.

2008 — what’s next? I know this. If we follow Jesus, we can’t go wrong. God is a big God, and I think he has BIG things in store for Element Church this coming year. This turned out way longer than I had planned. Sorry. Can’t wait for Sunday.


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2008 — What’s next?

27 12 2007

Wow is God stirring my heart. Had a GREAT planning session with Adam today and another good staff meeting. Some of the things we feel God calling us to do in 2008 are absolutely scary (financially, energy, volunteering). Although they are scary we feel like we MUST do them. Two things are coming in January that one is a MAJOR risk for a new church. Can’t wait to unveil it. (Staff keep your mouths shut) :) We’ve got some service projects in the works and have even begun planning for NEXT Christmas when we do our first Christmas Eve service.

I am VERY excited for 2008. We’re at that point where it could be easy for us to exhale and say “We made it”. We could easily level out, relax, get comfortable and call it good for a while. BUT WHY? Has God moved on our behalf? YES! Has He enabled us to grow and reach people for Christ? YES! But He still has more. Where will He take us? I don’t know, but I want to keep following so I can see. I’ll be sharing some stuff this Sunday about what God has been talking to me about personally and as the leader of Element Church.

I’m very excited about our next two sermon series. We’ve already received one phone call from someone who didn’t like the content of the mailer we sent out. One thing we will always do at Element Church is talk about the tough subjects. We’ll be doing that in January and February. Two of the most difficult subjects to tackle in church we’re taking on in two consecutive months. Money and sex. Below is the graphic for the mailer we sent out. We did the split graphic and saved some money by doing to series on one mailer. We’re not holding anything back in our sex series. There is a reason the church is silent many times on sex. THE DEVIL DOESN’T WANT US TALKING ABOUT IT. If we don’t, he gets all the airtime. Since it seems our country gets all their education about sex from satan, we’re going to expose what he’s been teaching through our series satan’s sex ed series.


We have our sermon calendar prepared through next Fall and I am really looking forward to some of the things we are going to do. The budget got completed yesterday and I feel really good about it. There seriously hasn’t been much more difficult, than preparing a budget for a full year, for a church that has existed for three months. We’re stepping out in faith on some of the budget items and we understand that there are some things that are unseen for us now that will come up. We’re really careful about tracking our spending right now so as to better budget as we grow.

2008 — what’s next? I know this. If we follow Jesus, we can’t go wrong. God is a big God, and I think he has BIG things in store for Element Church this coming year. This turned out way longer than I had planned. Sorry. Can’t wait for Sunday.


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2008 — What’s next?

27 12 2007

Wow is God stirring my heart. Had a GREAT planning session with Adam today and another good staff meeting. Some of the things we feel God calling us to do in 2008 are absolutely scary (financially, energy, volunteering). Although they are scary we feel like we MUST do them. Two things are coming in January that one is a MAJOR risk for a new church. Can’t wait to unveil it. (Staff keep your mouths shut) :) We’ve got some service projects in the works and have even begun planning for NEXT Christmas when we do our first Christmas Eve service.

I am VERY excited for 2008. We’re at that point where it could be easy for us to exhale and say “We made it”. We could easily level out, relax, get comfortable and call it good for a while. BUT WHY? Has God moved on our behalf? YES! Has He enabled us to grow and reach people for Christ? YES! But He still has more. Where will He take us? I don’t know, but I want to keep following so I can see. I’ll be sharing some stuff this Sunday about what God has been talking to me about personally and as the leader of Element Church.

I’m very excited about our next two sermon series. We’ve already received one phone call from someone who didn’t like the content of the mailer we sent out. One thing we will always do at Element Church is talk about the tough subjects. We’ll be doing that in January and February. Two of the most difficult subjects to tackle in church we’re taking on in two consecutive months. Money and sex. Below is the graphic for the mailer we sent out. We did the split graphic and saved some money by doing to series on one mailer. We’re not holding anything back in our sex series. There is a reason the church is silent many times on sex. THE DEVIL DOESN’T WANT US TALKING ABOUT IT. If we don’t, he gets all the airtime. Since it seems our country gets all their education about sex from satan, we’re going to expose what he’s been teaching through our series satan’s sex ed series.


We have our sermon calendar prepared through next Fall and I am really looking forward to some of the things we are going to do. The budget got completed yesterday and I feel really good about it. There seriously hasn’t been much more difficult, than preparing a budget for a full year, for a church that has existed for three months. We’re stepping out in faith on some of the budget items and we understand that there are some things that are unseen for us now that will come up. We’re really careful about tracking our spending right now so as to better budget as we grow.

2008 — what’s next? I know this. If we follow Jesus, we can’t go wrong. God is a big God, and I think he has BIG things in store for Element Church this coming year. This turned out way longer than I had planned. Sorry. Can’t wait for Sunday.


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Sermon Series and community outreach

19 12 2007

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.



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Preview Invite Cards

4 09 2007

Our series for these September previews is called CSI: Critical Scenes Investigated. We will be looking at some critical scenes from the Gospels and answering the question “Who is this Jesus we say we’re all about?” Nothing we are doing in the series really has anything to do with CSI the tv show. Just liked the title. HA Anyway, here are some invite cards that we got made up. Adam did a great job with them.

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