Posts Tagged ‘Church’

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New Passion Turns 6-Months Old

This is an exciting Sunday for me.
New Passion turns 6 months old this weekend! Wow, how time flies.
These last 6 months have been incredible, its been complete with our set of difficulties as well as many successes.
We started the church with a launch team of 21 adults and 14 children. Trust me I heard the [...]

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UNLEASH 2010: Breakout Session 2

Breakout Session 2
Giving…Budgeting…Spending
Paul Marshall & Joe Sangl
Giving:
0-1,000 People -

Established Accurate (Excellent) record-keeping (Used Simple Access Database)
(Without accurate record keeping, you have a mess!)
1st Time Giving Letter (No matter how much given)
Let God be in the equation
Build margin, early & often!

1,000 - 5,000 people -

Moved to FellowshipOne (Helps track Ministry & Giving)
Did 1st [...]

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I Like The Way You Think: Encouraging the Church

I was eating lunch with Jonothan, our worship leader, yesterday and he mentioned something I thought was pretty cool. So, since Jonothan does not blog and he just tweeted for the first time yesterday, I think I’ll post this myself. I like the way our people at New Passion think…it is scary what God can [...]

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No I am Not Pedophile Pastor Nicholas Carnes

The image you are looking at on the left is a picture of Pedophile Pastor Nicholas Carnes. Just for clarification, he is a pedophile, not a pastor.
If you have come to this site because you are searching for him or his church, this is not it. I apologize. I used to be a youth pastor, [...]

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Stronger: A Weekend for Men

In just a few of hours, 14 men will be piling into cars and driving about three hours up the road for “Stronger: A Weekend for Men.” We are going to a conference that solely focuses on men. I have no idea what to expect from this conference, I’ve never been, in fact to be [...]

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Make Money Going to Church?

A Chicago church has started giving away $1,000 each week in various amounts through a weekly lottery. Church attendees who are sitting in the winning seat win whatever the amount is for that drawing. Needless to say, the church attendance has increased dramatically since the lottery began.  I definitely have some questions of my own [...]

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People of the Second Chance

There’s been a buzz around Twitter today. Here’s what its all about. Keep your eyes open for this: I Copied this from POTSC -

Today something starts anew.
It is the first small step into officially beginning People of the Second Chance (Website).
What is People of the Second Chance? Truthfully, we’re still sort of figuring that out.
But [...]

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No Risk…No Reward

One of our core values at New Passion is to Embrace Faith that’s Bigger Than Ourselves. That statement would sound really cool, even if we chose not to live by it, but ever since I committed to following what I felt God was calling me to do in starting New Passion Church, that has been [...]

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Church Planters Don’t Come In a Box

I haven’t joined the MAC cult as many of my friends have. I’m very curious about owning my own MAC, but my main decision to stay PC has been solely financial.
One of the things that attracts me to the MAC is the out-of-the-box uniformity. With PC’s we have the good family members and then we [...]

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Revolutionary Change

Sunday we complete week 5 of our Rediscover Church series at New Passion. This week we discussed how we value creating Revolutionary Change through our Local and Global Influence.
We focused on 3 main questions after looking at 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
#1 What am I Becoming? - Paul said he became all things to all people. We [...]

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