Second Sunday Service @ Eli Pinney

I'm sorry I've been remiss in getting last Sunday's pics. and comments on the blog. Especially since the readership is up 100% making it six people now:-) Last Sunday, Feb. 8 was a nice sunny day and warm for the middle of winter. Pretty much all the snow and ice was gone giving better access to the school.

Rob Dubois led us in singing, Kyle explained our gift bag and Adam Koloff gave a brief testimony about how he came to follow Christ and weaved in our core value GROW. It was nice to see some visitors from last week attend again and four others who came for the first time. About half our total launch team, children and adult/student helpers, are now back in Ekids (birth-5th grade). Almost every area of ministry has its first team of leaders. Now we need to see another full team recruited to bring relief to the first team. That's about 40 more volunteers. Know anyone???

Here are some pics. of the morning.

First Preview/Practice Service on the Book

Yesterday was a great day. I'm so proud of the ENCOUNTER CHURCH launch team! The last six months has led up to preparing us for these next two months. April 2009 is still our Grand Opening month, but these nine weeks in Feb. and Mar. are very important too.
God has blessed us with a great location and kind renters.It was a real pleasure to speak with seven of the first time visitors.
Our first four week series of messages is titled, with. and is about relationships. A big thank-you goes out to the artist videos done by the team at Community Christian Church in Naperville, Ill.

Here's a bunch of pics. from the morning.

Much to do before tomorrow's practice/preview service

Whew! This week has had many appointments, shopping trips, guys learning how to use our new MacBook Pro w/ ProPresenter 3, and setting up our A/V equipment for the first time ever, tonight. I'm glad we are calling these next nine weeks "practice" services! That is literally what we are doing:-)
I'll be sure to fill you in on how things go Sunday.
Thanks for praying.

Final Meeting at Eli Pinney before Practice Services Begin February 1st.

Yesterday was a great final time together as a launch team. We set-up everything, coffee was ready early, and we started the service right on time at 10:00AM:-) We sang two worship songs, heard from Joey & Tiffany Holibaugh on their continuing journey towards Jesus Christ and then took an offering, letting those who were visiting know that this was more for those who call ENCOUNTER CHURCH their home.

I shared about how our enemy, Satan, wants to see this church plant fail and that one way he would likely attack us was through our relationship with each other. I asked everyone to be especially kind, forgiving, and flexible as we move ahead because we're still experimenting with how we do lots of things. i.e. setting up rooms, who needs to be where, when, etc.

After the offering the different ministry groups got together and like last week I had the privilege of meeting with some very new people to ENCOUNTER. I again explained about our name, vision statement and core values.

Afterwards it was hard to get everyone out of the school because there was so much conversation.

Our first preview/practice service is this Sunday, February 1st. It hard to believe it's already here. Pray that we will truly show Christ's love to those who walk into ENCOUNTER CHURCH.

ENCOUNTER CHURCH service time

For the last five months the launch team has been meeting at the Powell YMCA at 10:00am-12:00pm. Then three weeks ago we started the new year by meeting at our rental school Eli Pinney Elementary in the Tartan Fields community of Dublin, Ohio. In just two weeks, Feb. 1st, we begin our nine weeks practice services that will lead us into April, which is our Grand Opening month.

All this to tell you our Sunday morning service will start at 10:00AM sharp!

There will be music playing at 9:30am and freshly brewed coffee will be self-served from airpots around then too. So if you are going to visit ENCOUNTER CHURCH, come early, drop off your children, if you have any, get a cup of joe and enjoy the band.
To help everyone with when the service will begin, there will be a countdown timer on the large video screen.