Archive for June, 2008

Anthem Church Friends

Posted: June 30, 2008 in Church Planting

We had the most meaningful day yesterday at Anthem Church, Gainesville, FL.  These people are dear, dear friends.  They commissioned us, honored us, blessed us, announced their partnership with Origin Church, and our good friends, Wayne and Vernest LeGree, cranked out some fabulous barbecue, as only they can do!  Thank you Chad, Vernest, Wayne, and the entire [...]

New Myspace Page

Posted: June 29, 2008 in Marketing

Welcome to our brand new Origin Church myspace page.  Kudos to my oldest daughter, Melonie, for using her creativity to design a great page!  Click on the box above to take a quick tour, or you can click right here.  We really believe this can be a great networking opportunity to communicate with those in NW [...]

Stewardship Opportunity

Posted: June 28, 2008 in Giving

Our Partners now have the option to give electronically here at Origin, through e-give.  This is for your convenience and you can set up your tithe, offering, monthly partnership, or special gift either weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or whatever you choose.  It is stewardship made easy!  It has the highest level of security.  Any account can be used [...]

Church Planting Ben Arment

Posted: June 28, 2008 in Church Planting

Loved Ben Arment and Gary Lamb’s comments yesterday regarding planting a church.  You must read!  I’ll give you something else along that line.  I heard Mark Driscoll say, “What I do in Seattle would not work in Dallas because I don’t have any history with anybody in Dallas.  I believe you have to have some [...]

Just Saw This

Posted: June 26, 2008 in Church Growth

1990-  52 million people attended church 2006- 52 million people attended church 1990-2006- The United  States grew by 52 million people. Conclusion:  Stagnant church attendance while the population continues to grow. 49 out of 50 states are declining in the percentage of their population that attend church.  The only one that is growing is Hawaii.  In 2010, [...]

Thinking

Posted: June 25, 2008 in Thoughts

We’ve got a lot going on as we get ready to move from a development phase of our church plant to a launch team phase.  Let me just throw out what I’m thinking: Transition- I’ve never enjoyed it Packing Working on Systems for Origin- never ending Feel like I need to be working 24/7 Exhausted Tons to do [...]

A Little Atlanta-Journal Fun

Posted: June 24, 2008 in Family

 1                                                                                                   “Dawgs just want to have fun”………let’s have a little red & black Dawg fun along with the Atlanta-Journal newspaper today.  How ’bout them baseball Dawgs thus far?  How about voting for your favorite Dawg colors?  Let us hear from you!                                                                                                                                                                                            2   3                                                                                    

Frances is a Good Steward

Posted: June 24, 2008 in Buildings

Would you do this?  Frances Chan did.  You can check out what he did regarding his new building project to save millions.

World Missions

Posted: June 20, 2008 in Missions

At Origin Church, the “win” for us is defined as a changed-life.  Part of our DNA will be affecting lives through world missions.  We want to begin this from the get-go, even in our infancy stage as a church plant, and set the tone early for generosity.  Today, we announce two opportunities for you to make an impact [...]

A Lot Going

Posted: June 20, 2008 in Faith

As we transition from the development phase of our church planting mission, to the launch team building phase, we have so many emotions going on.  There are so many facets of this quest that are unknown to us, but known to God.  I continue to have strong belief that we all must continue to train [...]