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The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything

Last night, Nicole and I went with some of our good friends, Ben and Molly Simpson to a screening of The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie. I had received an invitation via email a few weeks ago and decided to see how it was. I am not a huge Veggie Tales […]

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church ministry

Church Benchmarking Trip

jimmorrow asked a couple great questions in the last post on Granger Community Church about what we were looking for on the trips to Willow Creek and Granger. In this trip we (Resurrection senior staff) visited what I would characterize as two different types of congregations – one that was larger than we are are […]

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Granger Community Church

On both Monday and Tuesday we experienced great hospitality from both Willow Creek and Granger Community Church. It has really been a great trip. We are headed back to Kansas City this morning – some more debriefing, brainstorming and networking on the bus is coming up. Our bus pulled up to Granger yesterday morning after […]

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church faith

Willow Creek

It was a good bus trip yesterday. I am actually blogging on the bus this morning. That’s right, Clif Guy, IT extraordinaire set us up with a rolling hotspot. Sweet! You can check out some pictures from yesterday on my Flickr stream. We stopped at the self-proclaimed “World’s Largest Truck Stop” in Iowa for lunch […]

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YouTube: NonProfit?

The YouTube Nonprofit Program was announced on the YouTube blog last week. This is promoted as an opportunity to share the message of your organization through video. Specific perks from the website: Your Nonprofit channel includes: Premium branding capabilities and increased uploading capacity Rotation of your videos in the “Promoted Videos” areas throughout the site […]

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What is the emerging movement?

This is a question which I received from a member of the congregation earlier this year. When I use the term “emerging movement” I am referring to a movement throughout many denominations in which the way that we live out God’s call in our lives, how we live as the church and the purpose of […]