Church Growth Category

What is the worth of a chair? Priceless. At least at The Connection Church. Because we only have so many to go around * and everybody needs one. Especially the many, many people who are starting to check us out every week. With growth comes some growing pains, and one of those is balancing our [...]

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Some big things are coming, and I’m not just talking about a rotund man in a red suit. God is at work through us. On Thanksgiving weekend, a Sunday that’s usually one of the lowest attended Sunday’s of the year, we actually were up by 50 people from the previous week! And still, we saw [...]

On Sunday afternoon, August 8th, we went down to 5 Mile Dam for Baptism Celebration. I got to baptize 6 people, Nic baptized 4, our deaf pastor Tim baptized 3, Javi baptized his nephew and Rico baptized his daughter! What a blast it was to be a part of those 15 people’s “Going Public” party! [...]

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This week I listened to “The Dip” audiobook by Seth Godin.  I’m looking forward to sharing this with our staff. It’s a quick listen, or read, full of helpful counter-intuitive principles that will help you move beyond average to being the best at whatever you’re doing. Every endeavor, job, project, even relationship, has a dip, [...]

How Many Services?

In: Celebration, Church Growth, Video, Vision

How many Celebration Services will we be offering on Easter Sunday? Let’s see if you can guess: Yes, the answer of course is “3″! At 9, 10:15, and 11:30. With a 15 minute passing period in-between. And we’re going to continue offering these 3 service times throughout the “CHAINged” series for 5 weeks. Then, our [...]

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