– Amazing day! – Great crowds in Miramar and Miami Lakes. – Great to see lots of 1st time guests in both locations! – It's amazing to me how different Miami Lakes and Miramar are. Miramar is looking like more couples in the 30-40's range. Miami Lakes is tons of singles in their 20's. – I'm interested to see how this plays out over time. – I taught a message today called, "Help! I've Married the Wrong Person!" from Genesis 29. We talked about Jacob DID marry the wrong person. My favorite part of the message is the AHA … Read More
Don’t Forget… The Moving Sale is almost over!
Since our offices are moving next week, we're having a huge sale on all of our resources. It's a great opportunity for you to stock up on some resources you've been meaning to pick up. Some of our best selling resources are 50% off like… The Zero to Sixty Seminar for only $38.50 Laying the Foundation for only $48.50! The Tithe Challenge for only $64! The Portable Church Challenge for only $38.98 Other best selling resources are 25% off… The New Believer Follow Up System for only $42.75 21st Century Outreach Strategies for only $42.75 Direct Mail Secrets for only $57.75 How to … Read More
Help us move less boxes to our new offices
As I mentioned yesterday, our offices are moving and we decided to have a huge sale (this way we have less boxes to move)! So we put EVERY www.church-strategies.com resource on sale for a significant discount! What kind of sale? Check out how serious these discounts are: The Tithe Challenge Kit – 50% off! Laying the Foundation – 50% off! The Zero to Sixty Seminar – 50% off! The Portable Church Challenge – 50% off! Church Planting Pitfalls – 50% off! Serving Strategies – 50% off! The Cash Crunch – 50% off! All sermon series – 50% … Read More
The “We’re Moving” Sale is on until Sunday!
Our offices are moving next week and we had 2 choices: #1 – box up all of our www.church-strategies.com resources and take them to the new office #2 – Do a crazy sale and get resources into the hands of leaders for up to 50% off. We chose #2. So if you head over to www.church-strategies.com you'll find every one of our resources on sale (many resources are up to 50% off!). Quantities are limited, so when they're gone, they're gone. Update: we're starting to run out of certain resources, so don't wait! So head over now and save big time!
Sunday Stuff… (Miramar Launch Edition) Addendum
– Just found out that there were actually 160 people at Miramar today! – Also, 8 people made a decision to follow Jesus in Miramar! That's what it's all about! – We had 27 first time decisions for Jesus between both campuses! – To the guys in my new coaching network that starts this Thursday: we're going to put together a strategy that will reach more people in your community than ever this Easter! – I also need to thank everyone who was praying for us. I'm honored that you would take the time to pray for our Miramar launch. … Read More
Sunday Stuff… (Miramar Launch Edition)
– Today was amazing! Definitely one of the highlights in my 9+ years as Pastor of Calvary Fellowship. – We launched our Miramar campus today with 150+ people! Thank you Lord! – I'm blown away by God's goodness. We did personal invites, Facebook ads, and direct mail, that's it! – Miramar is a community that has needed a church like ours for a long time. People's receptiveness to a new church like ours shows that there's been a huge need. – Our staff and volunteers were amazing. They made Everglades High school look like we've been meeting there for a year! … Read More
Your Study Time
As a Pastor, the most important thing you do is teach the Word of God to your congregation. Yet our study time doesn't scream for attention. Everyone else is. Staff want to meet with us. People in the church want to talk to us. Other organizations want a few minutes of our time. But Sunday is coming (with amazing regularity). So I encourage you to schedule your study time first and don't break that appointment for anything or anyone. Emergencies come up, but if it's happening every week it has ceased to be an emergency and now it's routine. … Read More
Digital Evangelism
On Thursday, March 11th from 1PM-2PM EST, I'm going to lead a brand new tele-seminar called, "Digital Evangelism: Reaching People through the Power of Facebook". We get a lot of questions about how we reach people every week through advertising on Facebook, so we are going to share everything we know about reaching people through Facebook. Here's what I'm going to over in this nuts and bolts tele-seminar: – The Do's and Don'ts of advertising on Facebook– The 1 thing you must avoid at all cost– How to track your Facebook results and see the return on your investment– … Read More
Twas the week before we launch a new campus…
Someone asked me last week what the biggest challenge has been in launching a new campus. Before I tell you, here's what I thought it was going to be as we went into this: 1. Raising the money 2. Having enough volunteers 3. Getting buy-in from the congregation Honestly, I found those 3 things easier than I thought. (they weren't a breeze, but they were much easier than I expected). Here was the biggest thing: Making sure we are properly exporting our DNA. I really want both of our campuses to have the same experience. I want the highest level … Read More
Strategy vs. Spirit
I've noticed something in the church over the years and I want to address it today. There seems to be a bit of a divide between those who think strategically and those who simply 'let the Spirit lead'. In fact, those who claim to allow the Holy Spirit to lead their churches without the need for strategic thinking sometimes call those who lean towards the practical "carnal" and "unspiritual". Honestly, I've heard this since I entered ministry. The message was, "If you want to be spiritual, don't worry about the details." Here's where that became problematic for me: I have … Read More