My Big Announcement

In case you missed it on my other blog I made my big announcement.

Oh yeah, John Atkinson made the announcement as well. Go check out his blog to read where we are headed.

We're gonna charge hell with a water pistol fire hydrant.

Meeting

Had a meeting with this guy last night, who is a pastor on staff with this church for this pastor.

Look for an announcement coming soon. ;)

Kingsville/Corpus Launch Meeting

Tomorrow Night (Friday 2-29-08) is the Night we will be in Kingsville for our Launch Gathering.

Anyone...and I mean anyone can come out to Young's Pizza in Kingsville and check us out. We changed things up with our location this week to be able to meet with several people in the Kingsville Area...but if your in Corpus feel free to join us.

Check out the details BELOW...and do me a favor....Let me know if you are going or not....just leave me a comment here or one on myspace. You can email me as well at pastorjcurl@gmail.com

Hosted By: Life Church
When: Friday Feb 29, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Where: Young's Pizza
625 W Santa Gertrudis St
Kingsville, TX 78363
United States

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To find out more how you can partner with us to change this area visit 300forLife.info.



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Kingsville/Corpus Launch Gathering

Corpus/Kingsville Area....Join us in Kingsville for our next launch gathering.

Hosted By: Life Church
When: Friday Feb 29, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Where: Young's Pizza
625 W Santa Gertrudis St
Kingsville, TX 78363
United States

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To find out more how you can partner with us to change this area visit 300forLife.info.

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Ownership

This weekend we met for our latest launch meeting. Results have been frustrating. I have several people that have stated they are on board but yet we can't seem to meet together. Something always seems to come up with everyone's schedule.

We are only meeting twice a month right now and at this pace as a team I feel we will never be able to get on track.

I guess it comes down to ownership. Do you really own it? This is something I have seen in every church I've been in. Many watch the pastor run around and do everything.

Life Church will only be a great church when everyone takes ownership in it. It is not about creating a place that is all about putting me out as a personality. I feel I'm going to be a small part of something big even as the lead pastor.

I'm going to use the gifts God has given me. What about you????

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300 For Life

Just purchased the domain name 300forLife.info

One of my next goals is to purchase our website domain name.

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Life Church Website

I made a new logo for Life Church website....

Took the WIRED part off and added a new graphic which I like better.

Red/Black/White seems to be the current theme.

Go check it out.

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300 For Life

In anticipation of our exciting plans for 2008, we're endeavoring to raise funds to see the launch of Life Church in the Coastal Bend.

We have launched 300 For Life. We are believing for individuals/churches who desire to make KINGDOM IMPACT that will partner with us to bring the life of Christ to this area.



With this we are also designating part of our donations to help some area community services. We will be releasing more info soon.

Check out the following links for info:

• 300 For Life
• Life Church Website
• Life Church Proposal

Life Church Website

As we seek to build momentum to our September 7th, 2008 launch date, I have worked on creating an internet presence. I had a great friend walk through it all with me to look at the "brand" we are beginning to establish.

Today I completed and added some pages on the site. I also want to give you my philosophy on this. I have always believed in doing the best job with the resources you have available. Currently all of our sites are free sites that we are using to spread the word. As our resources begin to come in, be on the lookout for a revamped version of our website.

You can view our internet presence at the following links:
lifechurchwired.wordpress.com
www.myspace.com/lifechurchwired
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=7419532292

Make sure you stop in and add us as a friend. I also have one more secret site that I have been working on that I will be revealing in a couple of weeks.

Wordpress Problems

For a brief moment I was thinking about a transition to Wordpress. Unfortunately that is on hold right now.

Reason why is that I have been using it temporarily for our church site. It has many great features that blogger doesn't have. One is being able to create separate pages that make it look more like a website vs. just a blog. Another is creating a static home page which I think is really cool when you want to use it like a website.

Today, as I was working on my pages each time I saved a page, one other page would disappear. In fact all of the work I had originally done is now gone. Which honestly bites. I didn't realize I should have exported all the pages so that I would have it. I wasn't doing anything unusual or out of the ordinary. In fact, I was doing things I had done before on the site.

If anyone else has experienced this through wordpress let me know. For now, I am evaluating everything until we purchase our web hosting.

Our Values Coming Soon

Several things that I believe are important for a church to know are: vision, mission and values. Of course once you know these then you need to develop them down into goals and tasks to accomplish your mission.

Next week I am going to break down our values each day with their own post. I have placed them in the form of an acrostic - TO DOMINATE. That alone is our greatest value and vision. Be on the look out for that next week to get to know Life Church a little better.

What are your organizational values?

The Questions Continue

How can we see the greatest level of influence as possible?

Can we be a church that, if suddenly closed down in 10 years, would be missed? And not just by the 100 to 500 people who attend. Would the community abroad even know it?

We marvel at a church like Lakewood...but 47,000 in a metropolis of 5,500,000 is only .85%. Less than 1%. Do you really understand that number???????? Yeah but they own the old Compact Center... point-eight-five-percent folks. (BTW...I respect Joel and what they do tremendously....I worked for his brother-in-law in Victoria...we were reaching about 4 - 5% there) I'm just talking pure community impact here.

What good is it to sit in our pews and behind our pulpits and say God bring 'em in? When are we going to start going out? What about impacting poverty? Teenage pregnancies? Homelessness? Substance abuse?

Does outreach need to be re-invented? A friend of mine who will remain nameless had an idea for an outreach to rent a big facility and have a crusade. A crusade???? You know hire this big Christian speaker...with a praise band....and have every Christian in town come and then say we had an outreach to the community. Gimmie a freakin' break.

Is creating culture possible and what would that look like here?

How big is too big in thinking what we can do?

Just a few questions I'm thinking about....how about you????

Life Church Wired

Short one here....we are calling our internet experience Life Church WIRED!

I've spent the better part of the last few weeks working it all up to launching it this week. I'm using all free resources to start with as one of my core convictions is don't let money stand in the way of you doing anything.

We are using wordpress to begin with on our website. http://lifechurchwired.wordpress.com

We are using myspace and facebook for our social experience...and will be also quickly working twitter into the mix. www.myspace.com/lifechurchwired Search for "Life Church Wired" on facebook and you should find it.

Welcome To

Life Church

It's official...this weekend we have release our name. Check out our launch video below.

You can also check out our myspace which I got up and running tonight.

Be on the lookout this week for our wordpress blog site.