This summer we broke up our baptisms into three different times. This was intentional in the hopes of making it less of a baptismal service and more of a baptism party. I had planned to get some interviews with some of the baptizees before but was having some mic issues. Next time. Just never gets [...]
This morning Phillip concluded his message with a video about the Prentice family. This was a video that I shot last Sunday afternoon and edited this week. Going into the video, we thought it was going to be primarily a video to promote Grace Kidz, the special needs ministry at Cedar Creek Church. However, like [...]
Here are a couple of photos (compliments of Nick – Ridge Campus Pastor) of the worship center at Cedar Creek On the Ridge in Ridge Spring. For those that don’t know, this is our second multi-site campus about to launch within the next few weeks. It was very cool to see the reaction of those [...]
…you have to do things that no one is doing. The message doesn’t change but the methods MUST. Check out this clip from Craig Groeschel.
I had a meeting with the Augusta Symphony about a website so I met with them a few weeks ago. They are housed at Sacred Heart Cultural center in downtown Augusta. Sacred Heart was a church that closed in 1971 and was renovated and restored in 1987 as a cultural center for the community to [...]
When it comes to doing small groups in churches, there are two paradigms that exist: Churches OF Small Groups and Churches WITH Small Groups. Churches WITH small groups see small groups as another ministry that their church does. Churches OF small groups view them as core essential of who they are. It plays out in [...]
Our Easter site is now up and redesigned for 2009. Except for an E-vite, it is pretty much complete. As far as our marketing, we’ll be using this along with an invite card and a 40,000 piece mailer that will be going out the Tuesday/Wednesday before Easter. We’re also working on our facebook page and [...]
Wanted to pass along a way that your church or non-profit can save some serious dough when it comes to buying software or hardware. Someone tipped me off to this a few months ago, and it has meant big savings for my ministry area at cedar creek. We have setup a non-profit pricing account with [...]
Today I was taking the kids to school, and the local Christian radio station was on. I heard a commercial that really took me back. It was for a new church plant that was about to launch over in Augusta in the next week or so. The voiceover for the commercial was inviting people who [...]
