Monthly Archive for July, 2008

First 90 Days at Christ Fellowship in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

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by
Kerry Mackey
on July 31, 2008
in Street to the Seat
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Well gang I am wrapping up my first 90 days at Christ Fellowship Church in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida with Pastor Tom and Todd Mullins. It has been a true blessing in our lives to join this team. You can’t even imagine all that the Lord has done in such a short 90 days. Just ask my staff. LOL

The thing that I am most proud of is that we have seen hundreds of lives changed in such a short time. OneLife at a time. I had the privilege of leading my first beach baptism at Christ Fellowship here in June with 115 baptism and in July saw 66 baptism. How awesome is that! The water on the East Coast is a whole lot warmer than the West Coast. Florida has California beat on water temperature.

Here are a few other things you can rejoice with us about. (no particular order)

  • launching our 6th campus in Stuart, Florida on September 7th (You go Matt!)
  • working on our new communication strategy with Cindy (Communications Director) (aligning oral, print, broadcast, and digital media)
  • we are aligning core values, purposes, strategies, philosophy, and implementation across our campuses.
  • we are seeing several thousand join us with our online community - Pastor David Helbig is here to help you make that connection as well
  • new welcome brochures coming out in the next several weeks
  • updating our First Impression Team manuals for all campuses
  • reworking our Response Card to get persons engaged earlier - launching new card and process September 6/7
  • rewriting 101-401 and putting them in 2 hour orientations (Pastor Lance Witt is doing most of the work. Thanks Bro!)
  • beginning to write 501 with James Duvall (our worship pastor)
  • our Community Life Pastor Reid Smith is rebranding our groups to “Life Groups” with a major relaunch of groups on September 6/7
  • defined our discipleship “matrix” with the team to launch October 1 (this is super cool… stay tuned for details)
  • addressing the needs of college, singles, men, and women in the new discipleship matrix
  • getting ready to open our new Life Center (125,000 sq. ft.) - October 1

Thought you would enjoy that. Wonder what the next 90 days holds. Can’t wait.

The Need to be Right

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Kerry Mackey
on July 4, 2008
in Communication and Street to the Seat
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Ever found yourself defending a position just for, “the need to be right”.  Well, I have.  I was editing First Impression manuals (traffic, greeters, ushers, welcome center, security, communion, service coordinator, etc…) this week when I found myself editing them with a need to be right instead of how best it would serve the organization.

I was in the midst of standardizing the manuals when I noticed I was leaning toward positions of “being right” instead of what is best for all multi-sites.  SO, I stopped and started over completely with a “right frame of mind”.

The final work up is much better when you have the right frame of mind.  In addition, I turned on the “track changes” function and sent it back out to all the campuses for their input before bringing this to a culmination of the finished product in the next 2 weeks.

Sidebar:  standardizing these areas of ministry in a multi-site environment is the right thing to do.  It builds team, keeps DNA consistent, supports ease of enlistment/training/placement, allows cross training, and gives you freedom to share the work load among your multi-site campuses.  Not to mention that it fosters communication, connection, contribution, and community.