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How Long is Pastor Jeff Staying? This is one of the questions that I used to get asked more frequently than I do now, but that doesn't mean people aren't thinking it. It's well known among church people that pastors are a traveling breed. Nearly every person who has spent a significant amount of …
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Can I trust the leadership of the church? In any financial campaign of any church, one of the big questions that people are going to ask but not actually ask is this one. People are going to ask the question internally, but they are most likely not going to ask anyone out loud. …
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Download Our Campaign Commitment Decision Guide By the time we launched our financial campaign, we had already spent weeks in preparation for it. We held focus group meetings, we held campaign planning meetings, we had a Leadership Banquet to try to inspire the leaders of the church to take the lead …
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Exciting Times For the past few weeks at LCC, we have been in a series of messages at our church going through the book of Exodus. I called the series Time to Move for two reasons: The story of Exodus is a story of a time when God had to move his people from one place to another, and it covers all …
For the past few weeks, the people in my Core Group have been musing together about the fact that nearly all of us are introverts. None of us know why that's happened. Perhaps, the fact that I'm the pastor of the church and the main speaker each Sunday in our worship gatherings makes it so that …
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This was posted to YouTube by a lady who had never been to our church before, but came with the violinist. …
This Sunday launches the Grand Opening month for Connexion Christian Ministries in Lafayette, and it's time for me to evaluate whether I'm really in favor of church planting or just my own church plant! …
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(Cross-posted at lafayettecommunitychurch.com. ) Yesterday was one incredible Sunday! For those of you who want to get the bullets first, here are the statistics on Lafayette Community Church's 2009 Commitment Sunday: 13 people were baptized. 3 children were dedicated. 152 people were in …
I just finished putting together two new church brochures for our Grand Opening service on Sunday. By the way, if you haven't heard yet, we are changing our church name to Lafayette Community Church. Read About It Here. I'm uploading both brochures here for your use if you want. LCC Baptism …
In our new church effort in Lafayette, I set as a goal from very early on that we would attempt to do everything we could with excellence, and though we have had some hiccups with our children's programming and with our music, we have been consistently high quality with our printed materials and …
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On Sunday, I challenged my congregation to join me for a competition of spending time in the word of God. I called it The Southside Church God-Time Competition, and here are the simple rules: At least 10 minutes a day with God, every day. Time with God means something is read (from the Bible), …
For 6 weeks, we will be exploring the six biggest questions in life. Why am I here? Why should I believe in God? Why should I trust the Bible? Why is the world so messed up? Why is there such conflict between Science and the Bible? Why Jesus? It's going to be a powerful program combining dynamic …
This week we executed a plan that I had been brewing since last year at this time. You may already have read about our "Black Friday" Hot Chocolate Giveaway. On that day, we gave out nearly 500 mugs of hot chocolate or coffee to shoppers braving the local Wal-Mart on the day after Thanksgiving. …
Download Audio It's my passion to see people get a big vision for what God is able and willing to do in our lives. I am convinced that God is bigger and more willing to do more incredible things than we give him credit for, than we expect, and than we are ready for. We just don't have big enough …
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I thought you would like to see this slideshow. I have it posted on our church page at http://thesouthsidechurch.org/main but I know some of you haven't been over there yet, so here it is... Click To Play I just want to thank everyone who has been a part of supporting …
