My friends Aaron and Camille own a hot dog stand business and were good enough to come out and support us on Sunday at our first “Summer Picnic.” It’s a pretty good thing that they did, because we ran out of all the other food!! (My thought on that is college guys eat more than […]
Somebody stepped up and has underwritten a half time salary for Antioch to be able to hire Gary Christenson from now through the end of the year!! Not only is that cool, but having Gary on board doing creative arts, music and graphic arts is going to be HUGE (I couldn’t think of another word
There’s a pretty cool new page on our web site designed to help people find their place in a ministry at Antioch. Give it a look when you get the chance!! http://www.antiochchurch.org/volunteers.html
Imago Dei Community in Portland has been working through a process of defining women’s roles in ministry at their church. Their paper is well crafted… no matter where you stand on this issue. Click here to read.
We’ve run into a seating crunch at Antioch. I suppose that it is another one of those “good problems to have“!! The team began brainstorming last week about what we can do to create more seating — there were lots of creative ideas like a second service, a live feed overflow service, multiple sites, staggered
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the vision and mission of Antioch lately… so I thought I’d put a link to our web page where there are several short essays that speak to the heart of who we are and what we are trying to do. Take a gander if you’re interested!! http://www.antiochchurch.org/indepth.html
I’m pretty excited about the new pastor on staff, Brandon Reynolds. The guy can do it all and with a smile too!! In case you haven’t met Brandon yet, we just recently added his staff profile to the web page. Check it out!! P.S. If you’re in to the Strengthsfinder test that I’ve blogged about
I just received this e-mail “complaint” from a friend at church. What’s up with all the “seat saving” going on at church these days. Last time I’d seen so much seat saving I was on the bus in the 4th grade. I used to hear complaints that nobody wanted to fill a seat in church…
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I punch in the attendance figures every week, and today it just hit me that this looks kind of cool!!
We began a series a week ago on the Book of James that I had planned to last for about 9 Sundays. Well, as with a lot of other things lately, I think the plans are changing. As I’ve been reading, studying and praying I’m beginning to think that we’ll be camping on James until
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