December 2005

Blender Magazine: Church & Culture
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Mars Hill received a 5-page spread in the new Blender Magazine The Emo-Driven Life Churches like Mars Hill in Seattle are quietly upending conventional notions of Christian rock by featuring devotional bands with an indie-rock sensibility—and the tattooed hipsters are...
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The State of the Church: 2006
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The Condition of the Church in America Complied by Andy McAdams 1. 1,400 pastors in America leave the ministry monthly. 3. Only 15% of churches in the United States are growing and just 2.2% of those are growing by conversion...
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Churches: Breaking the 125 Barrier
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I attended the National Outreach Conference for my San Diego Reader Job (see Outreach Article). At the conference, while at a seminar led by Nelson Searcy, Breaking Attendance Barriers, a coupon was handed out for Searcy's website. About the Author...
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Church Planting Money
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Hopefully this means Acts 29 will continue to aggressively plant churches worldwide: As chairman of the board for newly formed Vision USA, Mr. Weiss aims to raise $300 million over the next 10 years for aggressive church planting in 50...
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Visioneering : God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Personal Vision
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Here is another book I'm ordering: Visioneering : God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Personal VisionVision is a preferred future. A destination. Vision always stands in contrast to the world as it is. Visioneering, according to bestselling author Andy Stanley,...
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Simply Strategic Growth: Attracting a Crowd to Your Church
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Simply Strategic Growth: Attracting a Crowd to Your Church is another book I'm getting. I'll start off by saying, this book makes me a little nervous but I'm curious to see what it says. I'll hope to have a review...
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Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire : What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
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Here is a book I'm planning on reading. As we begin this next year at Kaleo, prayer is our only answer for the vision we feel God has for us. I've had a couple people recommend this book. Fresh Wind,...
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Holy Spirit Catholic Church
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"[When I'm taking the Eucharist], I'm consuming Jesus' body, if you view it with eyes of faith," said Eileen Carton, a volunteer at Holy Spirit Catholic Church. "How else can you get that close to God? When I take Eucharist,...
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Kaleo Church Website
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New Kaleo Church Website...coming soon. We've built the framework (nice web standards/css) for the new site. It's going to be nice to finally move from table based designs on this one. We're moving all the content now into the Ekklesia...
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Calvary Chapel San Diego
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"I was stoned when I accepted Christ," said Jared Lee, a volunteer at Calvary Chapel San Diego. "When my parents got divorced, I started getting into the drug scene. I would smoke an ounce of weed in three days and...
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