Could You Sign This?
Saturday I went to the Fight Club X Conference put on by the Acts 29 Network. The opening speaker was Dr. Samuel Thomas, President of Hopegivers International, an organization that rescues orphans and at-risk children in India and provides food, shelter, education and training to share the Gospel throughout the country. Dr. [...]
Hey Church Leaders!
Does your church use social media for any reason in your church? Would you take a few minutes if you do and email my friend Ben Taylor to answer these questions for his college course he’s finishing up?
Do have a social media strategy? Why or why not?
How long has the Social [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
