Wednesday night Christ Fellowship will begin a two session class called “Recession Proof Your Life - Navigation through the crisis of our lives.”
It will be held at the Royal Palm Campus, Gardens Campus and will also be Live Online Wednesday November 12 & 19, at 6:30 pm EST.
Live Online, I will be joined by David Helbig the Internet Campus Pastor of Christ Fellowship. Together Pastor David and I will go over the following in our first session (Wed, Nov 12):
1. God’s Principles for Managing Finances
2. Developing a Financial Statement
3. Q & A
You can join us live online by clicking the following link on Wednesday Nov. 12 at 6:30 pm EST.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/internetcampus
You will also be able to chat with us live online as we present the material. Please join us, and email David at davidh@cftoday.org for a copy of our student manual.
I look forward to seeing you there!
With what we know about the economy and where the economy is headed how is it affecting your ministry?
Please post your comments to this post and let’s learn together.
Remember, Street to the Seat is a learning community so posting your comments for all to read is very important.
I can not say THANK YOU enough to Bill Jones and UDFD Design . Not only did they create the look/feel for Street to the Seat, but when I messed up the blog in its entirety a month ago. They fixed it.
If you are looking for one of the most creative guys in Christianity today with a heart for making your business, ministry, and/or church relevant in it’s communication with the world, then Bill Jones and UDFD Design can take you there.
Hook up with Bill and let him do his thing. Tell him Kerry sent you.
Thanks Bill!
This past week Stephanie (wife) and I have been reminded of the need to, “Plan for Change“. You can read the full story on Stephanie’s blog.
Summary:
1. Have a plan
2. Have someone who can take over in your absence - your “second”
3. Make sure your “second” can run your plan
4. Allow your “second” flexibility to run your plan on your behalf
5. Know the right time to hand over leadership
I was absence from my team for 5 days and they never missed a beat. In fact, they probably did a better job without me there.
Thanks TEAM!
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.
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.
I found it pretty cool that the Kentucky Baptist Convention is quoting our work on their blog. Thanks Guys! Let me know how I can help you guys in Kentucky. Here to serve!
That is what our learning community is all about. Please continue to share our learnings.
The Sunday School Revolutionary
Search, “Kerry Mackey” on their site and the articles will pull up.
“Kingdom Vision”
Please forgive me for not posting in the past couple of weeks. We have been moving into our new home in Jupiter, Florida as well as landing as the new Pastor of Adult Ministries at Christ Fellowship.
I awoke this morning to a beautiful sun rise over the tall pines in my backyard while listening to my new David Upton CD, “Unshackled“. David has been leading me to worship for the past several years and recently my worship experience has been more freeing.
Thank You David! First for being a man of God unshackled by tradition or expectations. Secondly, a godly husband to your wife and children. Third, for helping me reconnect with my God.
Check David out on his website and myspace.
You will be blessed as he leads you to worship.
Wanted to share the joy with you. We have over 100 daily subscribers to Street to the Seat with several thousand hits each month.
Continue to get the word out.
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Todd giving props to his dad, “COACH”. Coach is our Senior Pastor Tom Mullins. He is a servant to the core.
Today is the day to step up to the plate and TEST DRIVE a ministry. If you’d like to join the Christ Fellowship online team. DO IT. www.gochristfellowship.com
“Do not merely listen to the Word and so deceive yourselves.
Do what it says.”James 1:22 (NIV)
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