2009 Vision: Serving the community through the arts and acts of kindness
Our focus group had a great meeting last Wednesday. (Jennifer made some great brownies and some other goodies, but I digress...) We discussed how each person in the focus group would like to be involved. Some would like to organize and plan, some would like to make contacts, some would like to just show up to the event and be a roadie (that's me, by the way), some would like to write original songs and arrange existing songs, and others would like to play instruments and sing. I'm excited to see where all of this goes. We'll be meeting again next month, so please contact any of us with any ideas you may have, and be praying about how God will specifically use you.
We also discussed a few important technical points:
1) Remember reason we are doing this: to reach the unchurched for Jesus. The basic idea is quite simple: we play some quality music in the community, and then invite them to a worship service at FCCN. We'll also do some random acts of kindness, like raking people's yards, or going door to door and giving a free watermelon to people on a hot summer day. Remember that everything we will do is for free, we won't ask anything in return: we'll just invite them to FCCN on Sunday. The possibilities are limitless.
2) Elisa Morrison mentioned it would be a good idea to pace ourselves: we'll begin slowly in 2009. We won't be doing a different outreach every week. To avoid burning out everyone, we'll walk before we run. :)
3) David Mitchell brought up a good point as well: because we are trying to invite the unchurched to FCCN, we will limit our outreaches to the Southwestern Indiana community. It would be fun to go and do something in Kansas City or somewhere else, but the chances of anyone actually coming to FCCN as a result a far away outreach is highly unlikely. So we'll try to touch there heart here, invite them to FCCN, and they might just bow their knees to Jesus one day.
Praise Team Schedules for the 3rd Quarter
For those of you on the praise team: your schedules are due to me on Tuesday, June 10. Just let me know which Sundays you would be unable to serve on the praise team for the months of July, August and September.
Praise Team Practice: Avion Training
During the next 3 praise team practices, Guy Hall and the media team will be training the instrumentalists on our Avion monitor system. There are some more interesting tricks that they would like to share with you. While they are working with the band, I'll be working with the vocal team on blend and worship leading. This should take about 15 minutes of the practice, but we'll still only practice from 6:00-8:00 P.M.
Value of the Month: Relational Evangelism
As we wrap up the value for this month, remember that the idea of building a relationship with someone first is the entire idea behind the "circle of evangelism" cards every Sunday. We ask you to write the name of someone who needs a relationship with Jesus on that card. Then we as a staff divide the cards up and pray for you to have a chance to speak with them this week about Jesus. I currently have 4 of them on my desk from last Sunday. So remember to build a relationship with them first, and we will be praying for a divine opportunity for you to tell them what Jesus has done for you.
God bless,
Phill
Phill Foust
Minister of Worship
First Christian Church of Newburgh
4544 State Rd. 261
Newburgh, IN 47630
Office phone: (812) 858-5000
Cell phone: (812) 449-3474
Fax: (812) 858-5001
