Hey! One Month to Live is rolling! We're giving folks one more opportunity to connect to a group tomorrow at 1st Wednesday. If you're a group host and want some more people in your group, come on and get some! Be here at 6:30pm. In the past few weeks we've gone from about 75 groups to 120 groups. Now that is incredible growth! I am, however, taking a "wait and see" attitude because it will take a couple of weeks to see who is really serious about this hosting thing and who was just kidding and signed up cause it made 'em feel better. So, in a couple of weeks I hope to report to you that we have 120+ groups who are engaged in the ONE MONTH challenge. We'll see.
Hey...it's not too late to start hosting. Come by the LifeGroup table, get a free kit, invite friends, play the dvd, eat chips, love Jesus. Pretty simple.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
april fools
From cnn.com. The top ten april fools office pranks.
1. Placed a pair of pants and shoes inside the only toilet stall in a men's room to make it appear someone was using the stall. It sat there for hours until someone called security to check if the person had died.
2. Sent a fake love note to a co-worker from another co-worker.
3. All the women in office individually spoke to the president, confiding that she is pregnant. By noon, he 'knew' that all of his female workers were pregnant and he could not tell anyone because each asked for confidentially.
4. Called the electric company, used a co-worker's name and told them he was moving so the electricity got turned off at the co-worker's house.
5. Filled the vending soda machine with cans of beer.
6. Rigged the boss' chair to drop suddenly during a staff meeting.
7. Placed a sign on the restroom door that read, "The company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources."
8. Paged a co-worker over the loud speaker claiming the CEO was looking for him. The worker went into the CEOs office and the CEO didn't know who he was or why he was there.
9. Shrink-wrapped everything in a co-worker's cubicle.
10. Put a 'house for sale' ad in the newspaper regarding a co-worker's home.
1. Placed a pair of pants and shoes inside the only toilet stall in a men's room to make it appear someone was using the stall. It sat there for hours until someone called security to check if the person had died.
2. Sent a fake love note to a co-worker from another co-worker.
3. All the women in office individually spoke to the president, confiding that she is pregnant. By noon, he 'knew' that all of his female workers were pregnant and he could not tell anyone because each asked for confidentially.
4. Called the electric company, used a co-worker's name and told them he was moving so the electricity got turned off at the co-worker's house.
5. Filled the vending soda machine with cans of beer.
6. Rigged the boss' chair to drop suddenly during a staff meeting.
7. Placed a sign on the restroom door that read, "The company ran out of toilet tissue; please use your own resources."
8. Paged a co-worker over the loud speaker claiming the CEO was looking for him. The worker went into the CEOs office and the CEO didn't know who he was or why he was there.
9. Shrink-wrapped everything in a co-worker's cubicle.
10. Put a 'house for sale' ad in the newspaper regarding a co-worker's home.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Easter
Here's some thoughts about yesterday....
1. Over 5000 attended one of 4 campuses of Highlands.
2. The new Marion campus launched yesterday with over 300 in attendance. That pretty much means two per seat! :-)
3. Our volunteers stepped up big yesterday. We had tons of new faces in First Impressions. We had tons of veterans pulling double and triple shifts. Way to go!!!!!
4. The band was particularly good yesterday. They're playing heavier which I like since I'm a death metal fan at heart.
5. Had a great ribeye yesterday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Yes, a cow did die to make the celebration possible. But Jesus lives!!!!!
6. I had a volunteer come up to me yesterday who said..."I finally figured out what I'm supposed to be doing! I love greeting." That was a cool deal.
7. We had a bunch of people come to christ yesterday. I'll have some figures soon...there were two that I know of personally. What a priviledge to get to talk to them yesterday....
8. We had a bishop from kenya visiting highlands yesterday. I met him in the restroom. Jambo!
Well that's enough for right now. We're looking forward to our LifeGroup orientation and connection tomorrow starting at 6pm. Hope you'll be there to here what's cooking.
1. Over 5000 attended one of 4 campuses of Highlands.
2. The new Marion campus launched yesterday with over 300 in attendance. That pretty much means two per seat! :-)
3. Our volunteers stepped up big yesterday. We had tons of new faces in First Impressions. We had tons of veterans pulling double and triple shifts. Way to go!!!!!
4. The band was particularly good yesterday. They're playing heavier which I like since I'm a death metal fan at heart.
5. Had a great ribeye yesterday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Yes, a cow did die to make the celebration possible. But Jesus lives!!!!!
6. I had a volunteer come up to me yesterday who said..."I finally figured out what I'm supposed to be doing! I love greeting." That was a cool deal.
7. We had a bunch of people come to christ yesterday. I'll have some figures soon...there were two that I know of personally. What a priviledge to get to talk to them yesterday....
8. We had a bishop from kenya visiting highlands yesterday. I met him in the restroom. Jambo!
Well that's enough for right now. We're looking forward to our LifeGroup orientation and connection tomorrow starting at 6pm. Hope you'll be there to here what's cooking.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Conference Possibilities
Recently, I got the chance to attend Saddleback’s small group conference in Orange County and NewSpring’s Unleash in Anderson County. :-) Several times now, I’ve had opportunities to share things that I’ve learned at both those unique moves of God. I loved each experience and learned a bunch. Conferences are designed to mess up your thinking…to throw you off balance…in a good way. I’m going to share a series of posts on how we can put a conference in the proper context so that we maximize their benefit.
Everybody says at a conference… “Don’t go back and copy everything we do,” and yet people will go back and do one of two things. They will either go back and copy everything or fail to leverage the momentum that the conference gives. You go to a conference to glean from the corners of another man’s field. Instead, many folks try to dig up and bring back the soil only to find that the container they brought to hold the wheat won’t hold the dirt. That soil has been fertilized, tilled, planted, watered, and weeded. For us to assume that we can have the same crop without the same toil is folly. On the flip side, a conference exposes you to the white, hot passion of people who are on the same ultimate mission that you are. Why not capitalize on the momentum that an experience like that can create? What you are doing then is saying, “What if…” which is about the most powerful phrase in Christendom. Conferences allow us to see possibilities that before now have gone unseen and that is a good thing. What are some possibilities you’ve seen from the conference you attended?
Part two coming…
Everybody says at a conference… “Don’t go back and copy everything we do,” and yet people will go back and do one of two things. They will either go back and copy everything or fail to leverage the momentum that the conference gives. You go to a conference to glean from the corners of another man’s field. Instead, many folks try to dig up and bring back the soil only to find that the container they brought to hold the wheat won’t hold the dirt. That soil has been fertilized, tilled, planted, watered, and weeded. For us to assume that we can have the same crop without the same toil is folly. On the flip side, a conference exposes you to the white, hot passion of people who are on the same ultimate mission that you are. Why not capitalize on the momentum that an experience like that can create? What you are doing then is saying, “What if…” which is about the most powerful phrase in Christendom. Conferences allow us to see possibilities that before now have gone unseen and that is a good thing. What are some possibilities you’ve seen from the conference you attended?
Part two coming…
Monday, March 17, 2008
Unleash was great!
Props to Perry Noble and the team at NewSpring Church in Anderson, South Carolina for an incredible conference. Our team from Highlands had a great time and learned a ton. Here's a couple of things I was impressed with...
1. The energy of the volunteers. What an incredible first and lasting impression!
2. The Awake Cafe. I love legal stimulants.
3. The organization. Everyone is moving in one direction...
4. Great breakouts with Sherry Moorhead (volunteers) and Michael Brown (small groups).
5. Worship experience. What happened musically, emotionally, and spiritually on the song "hosanna" is a watermark in my journey.
4. Perry Noble...bringing the deep, deep hooks.
It was great fun to eat wings with my team at the best restaurant in the world. Wild Wing!
1. The energy of the volunteers. What an incredible first and lasting impression!
2. The Awake Cafe. I love legal stimulants.
3. The organization. Everyone is moving in one direction...
4. Great breakouts with Sherry Moorhead (volunteers) and Michael Brown (small groups).
5. Worship experience. What happened musically, emotionally, and spiritually on the song "hosanna" is a watermark in my journey.
4. Perry Noble...bringing the deep, deep hooks.
It was great fun to eat wings with my team at the best restaurant in the world. Wild Wing!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
One Month to Live is Coming!
I'm looking forward to launching our new campaign called One Month to Live. It's going to be challenging and exciting. We have incredible LifeGroup Leaders here and I'm sure that this challenge is going to be faced head on. Our goal is 250 total LifeGroups. That would represent 2500 people in a group and would be more people in a small group than attend our weekend worship experiences. That is a God-sized goal. To reach that goal we need everyone's help! Imagine what would happen if all the folks in groups now were released to HOST their own group. I know that would push many folks outside their comfort zone. Guess what? We haven't been called to be comfortable but to reach the world! Hosting is simple. Simply put, it is Have a heart for people, Open your home, Serve a snack, and Turn on the dvd player. That's it! These HOSTs would go out and invite friends, neighbors, and family to their home for a six week study. HOSTing is easy. We hope that you will partner will us to see our region in a LifeGroup!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Three acronyms from Saddleback
Here's some more learning from the Saddleback small group conference.
From Leonard Sweet:
Sucessful enterprises have the following characteristics...
E - Experiential
P - Participatory
I - Image Rich
C - Connective
From Leonard Sweet:
The original intention of the church...
M - Missional
R - Relational
I - Incarnational
From Josh Surrat:
The tool seacoast uses to provide guidance across 14 campuses...
I - Initial (things you've got to have in place before you start)
P - Priorty (things you've got to get done in the next 6 months to year)
0 - Optional (things that you have freedom to do on your own)
D - Discouraged (things you shouldn't do)
Pretty Good Stuff
From Leonard Sweet:
Sucessful enterprises have the following characteristics...
E - Experiential
P - Participatory
I - Image Rich
C - Connective
From Leonard Sweet:
The original intention of the church...
M - Missional
R - Relational
I - Incarnational
From Josh Surrat:
The tool seacoast uses to provide guidance across 14 campuses...
I - Initial (things you've got to have in place before you start)
P - Priorty (things you've got to get done in the next 6 months to year)
0 - Optional (things that you have freedom to do on your own)
D - Discouraged (things you shouldn't do)
Pretty Good Stuff
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