No Perfect People Allowed

This Sunday we begin meeting weekly for a worship gathering.  We meet at Spartan 16 at 10 AM.  Dress casual.  Heck, the title of our first sermon is Come as you Are.  See you Sunday and bring a friend.

 

Fun at Spring Fling

This weekend Mickey Mouse helped us promote Movies in the Park. It was a blast. Check out Hub City’s web site form more details.

 

Money, money, money

Don’t you just love talking about money? I thought I’d give a little update on some money stuff for Hub City Church (did you check out our new site yet?).

We’re looking for more people to be a part of The 300. The 300 is our plan to raise $30,000 to launch Hub City Church in September. It will go towards equipment and marketing. What we’re looking for is 300 people who will give $100 a piece. I think YOU need to be a part of The 300.

On a smaller note, I’m also working to raise around $500,000 to fund Hub City Church for 3 years. That only means we need 5,000 people to give $100 a piece. Seriously, please pray for us as we embark on this adventure. The guys at churchplanters.com say that “financing the vision” is one of the Best Practices of church planters. And since two guys I know just had to shut down their churches in the past 2 months because of finances… let’s just say this is a priority. So if you, or your church, or both wants to partner… give me a buzz… I’ll probably be calling you anyway.

Now off to pick up an elephant costume… if you’re at Spring Fling keep your eyes open for us.

 

This month

Dudes and dudettes, there is a bunch of stuff happening in a short amount of time. At LTM (launch team meeting) last night we sped through these upcoming events, but I wanted to lay things out here.

• Spring Fling this weekend. We get to hand out postcards (and maybe a treat) advertising/promoting Movies in the Park. We’ll be “flingin’” all weekend in our new Hub City Church t-shirts.
• That’s right, if you click the link above you’ll see that our web site is live. Yeah, baby!
• Next Friday, May 9th, we’re headed up to hang out with Watershed and check out how they do Movies in the Park.
• Then, on Saturday, May 10th, we’ve got a bunch of teenagers coming to help us give out postcards about Movies in the Park.
• Speaking of Movies in the Park… our first one is May 17. I am pumped. There’s still a lot to do, but God has opened so many doors and so much has already been done. (BTW: If you want to know how to pray for Movies in the Park, pray that we’ll do all that we need to do, that people will show up and that it won’t rain).
• Finally, I passed out this book last night for our group to read together. I am looking forward to us learning together and working to create systems that help people hear from God and do what he says.

That’s all for now. And don’t forget to hop on over to Hub City’s new web site

 

LTM Recap

I want to thank everyone for a great LTM last night.  I know we covered a lot of content, but you hung in there and had some great ideas.  I’m excited about us working together to make a difference in Spartanburg. 

Here’s a quick recap of what we discussed:

• Relational networks:  College campuses, non-profits (service organizations), sports/rec teams, city groups, civic groups, schools, neighborhoods, work place, YMCA.
• Direct touches:  Block parties, sports camps, movies is the park w/in neighborhoods, neighborhood festival (Halloween), provide food for teacher appreciation, volunteering with Habitat for humanity or the Children’s home, giveaways.
• Marketing:  Web site, blog, billboards, signs, mailers, door hangers, t-shirts, Frisbees, movie trailer.
• Front door:  A worship gathering 

For us to be missionaries to Spartanburg we need to spend the majority of our time and resources in relational networks and direct touches.

The direct touches that we decided to focus on are movies in the part (3-4), movies on campus (2-3), volunteering with habitat, Christmas in action and the children’s shelter (possibly renovating an entire home).  Thanks for telling me what you want to be involved with.  I’ll be contacting you within the week to make a time for teams to meet and begin planning.

On another completely random note, why does wordpress think Spartanburg is misspelled in one location on this post, but is spelled correctly in another location?  Things that make you go hmmm.

 

Vision Casting Gathering

That’s right! This Sunday is the night to come find out about Hub City Church. We’ll be sharing what we’re doing, why we’re doing it and how you can be involved in planting a relevant church that 20 and 30 somethings want to be a part of. We’ll be meeting here from 5:30 -7. We’ll have supper. If you need child care we’ll have that too (but you need to contact us). We’re looking forward to meeting you. Shoot us an e-mail or call at 433-0993 to let us know if you’re coming.

 

March Calendar

Last night at our LTM (Launch Team Meeting) I handed out a calendar for March.  Here are the important dates that you need to know about.

• March 4:  LTM 6PM
• March 5:  Guys night out.  Stay tuned for details.
• March 9:  Vision Casting Gathering
• March 10-12:  Intensive Church Planter training.
• March 11:  LTM @ SCC @ 7 – special time and location
• March 15:  Shamrocks on the Square – an opportunity to serve
• March 18:  LTM 6 PM
• March 19:  Gals night out
• March 25:  LTM 6 PM
• March 30:  Field trip

There you have it.  March in bullet form.

 

New time. New location.

Our launch team is changing our meeting time and meeting location. Starting next week we will be meeting on Tuesday nights from 6-7:30 @ First Baptist Church Arcadia. We’ll eat together and childcare will be provided. You can get directions to our new meeting place by going here.  We can’t wait to see you on Tuesday!

Until then… watch Lost.

 

This Sunday (2-17-07)

We had a great time this past Sunday sharing the vision of Hub City Church. If you missed it and want to find out more about a new, revolutionary church that’s going to be launching in Spartanburg, we’ll be doing it again on March 9th (or sooner if there’s interest, so e-mail me). This Sunday night at 5:30 the launch team will be meeting at 104 Graystone Dr. in Moore. Childcare will be provided. We’ll have food. We’ll be talking aand praying about our next steps as a launch team. Be there!

Until then, eat your vegetables.

 

Find out about us

Now is the time to find out about Hub City Church.  This Sunday, February 10th @ 5:30, we’re going to have an Vision Casting gathering. You can find out about our vision, values, plans, what kind of people we need on our launch team, our favorite colors and all kinds of other really cool stuff.

If you ever wanted to find out about planting a church, what it takes to be on a launch team, or how you can be a part of what God is doing in Spartanburg, then you need to be at this gathering. We’ll have food and child care.  We’ll be meeting at 124 Sorrento Dr. in Moore.  Click here for directions.

For more information call Jonathan at 313-8173 or e-mail him at hubcitychurch@gmail.com.  Please let me know if you’re going to need childcare.  I look forward to seeing you on Sunday.