The busier you are, the bigger impact you’ll have - right? Not always. In fact, I would argue not usually.
Many times our churches are doing so much, that not only are all our ministries and their volunteers overworked, but our people are so busy attending our “events” that they don’t have time to go into the world and love people. (more…)
The other night I couldn’t sleep for some unknown (at the time) reason, so I got up and went outside to see what all the light was about. It had been a full moon a few hours ago when I first laid down trying to sleep.
I had heard something about a lunar eclipse at around 4a so I thought “what the heck” maybe I should take a look, since I can’t sleep anyway. I would not have gotten up this early on purpose, but since I was already there… maybe I should record this for the kids to see.
The local press is picking up on the “new thing in town” that we’re getting ready for at MapleGrove. For the first time in our (Lapeer) county, there will be a Saturday evening service at a protestant church. I know this is nothing new around the country, but for our area … it’s really nothing short of a miracle.
Tuesday a reporter interviewed our staff for an article they are working on - she was very intrigued by the idea that a church was willing to do something different to meet people where they are.
We’ve got fliers up at many of the places where people have to work on Sundays (Restaurants, the Hospital, Party Stores) and when we talk to people about it they are really sounding excited about it. Did you know that 30% of Americans have to work on any given Sunday morning?
Today our first paid advertisements came out in our local newspaper. They are almost as much about making people ask questions as they are to answer them. We have the domain name ChurchLapeer.com and we link it to a list of all the churches in the county, not just ours.
We are hoping to make church more accessible, more relateable, to more people.
Stop in and check us out. Bring a friend that has to work on Sundays.
I’ve been reading a lot of blogs over the last year or so. I used to just get them emailed to me, but as email gets more and more about spam, I decided to finally start using google reader to organize my reading so that I could do it on my schedule. Wow, it really helps me. Anyway, I wasn’t doing a blog myself until recently. I really didn’t think that I had much that anyone else would want to read. But I was recently impressed upon that there are more reasons for blogging than that.
Here are some of them;
Stewardship of Information — God has given me many great opportunities to learn from others. I would be wrong not to pass what I have learned along to help others. It’s not up to me if they listen or not.
Stewardship of Time — I can’t possibly answer all the questions or emails that come in from others and still have time for my church and family. Blogging allows me to answer a question once and then refer others to it.
I make more sense in Writing — My ramblings don’t always make much sense unless I take the time to write and refine them. As I write, I become a better communicator.
Journaling – In Jeremiah 31 it says, “Set up roadsigns, put up guideposts. Mark well the path by which you came.” Blogging gives me a way to track the goodness of God and the journey I have traveled.
Personal Growth – Blogging makes me a better leader. It keeps me humble. Just as teaching helps you learn, blogging keep me on the learning edge of leadership.