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Greatest Gift Offering

November 23, 2011 in Church, Church Planting, Kid's Ministry, Missions, Outreach/Missions with 0 Comments

Next month, I’m inviting everyone connected to Coastal Community Church to participate in our annual Greatest Gift Offering. This is the time of year where we put feet to our faith – where we show our community the love of Jesus. The idea here is that as we buy gifts for other people, we want our largest, most extravagant gift to go to Jesus. We’ll use 100% of donations to this offering to fund the following projects.

• Upgrading our children, youth and main auditorium with new technology. This has been a big need for the past couple of years and we’re looking forward to upgrading. ($12,000)

• Church planting in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe. We’re partnering with Children’s Cup to plant a Coastal Community Church in Kwekwe focused on reaching those far from Jesus in one of the largest cities in Zimbabwe. They have already gathered 75 people to start and are just waiting for us to partner with them. ($12,000)

• We want to ramp up our local outreach efforts here to a whole new level in 2012. We have more outreaches, more events and more opportunities to reach those far from God with the life-transforming message of Jesus. ($13,000)

On December 18, 2011, we will receive the gift offering during our weekend service. We’re providing special giving envelopes and encouraging everyone to come prepared to give on that day. I am stepping out in faith and believing God for $37,000 in this years Greatest Gift offering.

If you’re going to be out of town on December 18th, or if you’d like to go ahead and donate now, you can do that here. It’s safe, secure and simple to use.

Please pray about participating and jump in with us. God has given us a great mission, and we’re blessed to be able to join Him in reaching our community for Christ and advancing the Gospel around the world.

This weekend

November 25, 2009 in Church with 0 Comments

I love coming to Starbucks to study for the weekend message at Coastal Community Church.  I love coming to grab a cup of coffee, sitting with my laptop writing and checking out with the headphones in the ears.  For some reason I get so much done when there is activity happening around me.  When everything is quite and there are no visual elements around I am completely distracted.  Weird that it would be that way but that is how I work.

I am jacked up about this weekend because I am sharing a principle that has guided our life throughout the years.  I believe that this weekend can revolutionize where you are going in life and how you are getting there.  I know that God has a purpose and plan for your life.  I also truly believe that God wants you to know that vision more than you or I want to know what that vision is for our life.  I am believing that all of you would get a picture of where God wants to take you.  I can’t wait to share, so be ready for God to show up and do something BIG in your life.

Coastal Community Church is off and running!!!

September 22, 2009 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

It has been a couple of weeks since my last blog post and I apologize.  The last two weeks have been a dream come true for me.  On September 13, 2009 we had the very first service of Coastal Community Church.  It was probably the 3rd greatest moment of my life besides accepting Christ and marrying my wife.  We had 357 people show up for that first service. The room was filled with anticipation, people gave their all in worship and the word of God was preached.  At the end of the day I was exhausted but at the same time I was invigorated.  It was one of the most surreal moments of my life.  I am not an emotional guy but when the commitment song, Came to my Rescue, was being sung and I looked out and saw hundreds of people worshipping God I just broke down.  There is nothing greater than seeing the Spirit of God move in peoples live to draw them into His presence.

I am so thankful to all of you who have been praying for Shayla, myself and our team.  You have no idea what is about to take place in Ft. Lauderdale because of your faithfulness.  To all those who have contributed financially to the vision before it was a reality, thank you so much for your belief and faith in us to do a Greater Thing down here.  Finally, to those who sacrificed by moving your families and giving up jobs, family and friends, you are my heroes.  We could not have planted this church without you and you have been such a huge encouragement and source of inspiration to us.

It’s about the DETAILS!!!

September 3, 2009 in Uncategorized with 2 Comments

Over the past 3 months I have learned a principle that has changed my life.  I am one of those people who is all about the big picture.  The thing about being a big picture person is that you are not necessarily a detail person.  I like talking about what it will look like when and dreaming about the future.  I am not real big on getting all the minor details in place.  The thing that I have learned is that life is culmination of all the details adding up to the big picture.  The details are what sets a good thing apart from the great thing, it’s what changes something from ordinary to extraordinary, and it is the difference in a good idea and a God idea.

I have come to find in planting Coastal Community Church that God is about detail.  He doesn’t just want us to have a good church service every weekend but a great one.  That means we have to plan for more than just some people greeting at the door, good music and relevant teaching.  It means we have to think about every sign that directs people, every word that goes on the screen during worship, our follow up on people who come to church, the curriculum we use to teach our children, the way we communicate to our community through our advertising, to the words we speak when we are in front of people.  It is all about the details.

This isn’t a new concept either, if you were to read Exodus in the Bible you would see how detailed God was about His first portable church that was planted in the desert.  They had to make the temple exact and precise.  It was all about detail.  I believe that God is looking for people who are about His details.  They are looking at what most would think of as meaningless but to God is extremely important.  I believe that the details take us from being visionaries to revolutionaries.  God is looking for a people who are all about the details, who can take a vision from concept to a reality and be the catalyst for a generation.

  • What details are you forgetting about right now in your life?
  • Where have you been slacking in life that you know you should be doing but you have just been lazy in?

Lets decide to be a people that are about the details of life!

Don’t forget this detail: SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 Monarch High School 10am COASTAL COMMUNITY CHURCH IS LAUNCHING!

Less than 2 Weeks!!!

September 1, 2009 in Uncategorized with 0 Comments

This past weekend was amazing. The Dream Team went in and set up Monarch High School for the first time and turned it from a school into a church. It was hard and tiring but invigorating at the same point. I think the highlight for me was at the end when we let the worship team get up and play a couple of songs on our new sound system. It was great to hear all of their hard work paying off in the sound quality of their musicianship but what really got me was to not just see them playing but seeing them worshiping.

I know that God is up to something BIG here in Coconut Creek, Florida. God just seems to be orchestrating opportunity after opportunity for us to reach out to people in our community. I am reminded of the verse in 2 Chronicles 7:14
“if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.”

I believe that we have been called by God to humble ourselves, pray and seek after God that he will hear our prayers and forgive sins and heal peoples lives.  That is what this church is all about.  We are about bringing people back to the heart of God and I believe that his heart is for people who are far from him.

Over the next 2 weeks we have tons of outreaches planned, lots of things to get ordered in order to get ready for September 13th at 10am and a practice service this weekend for our Dream Team.  Please be praying for us for a couple of things:

  1. We need to purchase a projector that is not in our budget that will cost $6500.
  2. Our direct mail piece is being sent out to 72,219 homes this week advertising our church and new series Paralyzed?.
  3. We are starting to receive calls on some local magazine advertisement we did and that we would connect with people.
  4. Our team is working really hard, that they would have peace and strength throughout this process.
  5. That we would have wisdom in every decision that we are making here in final preparations for the launch.

Thank you for all your prayers, encouragement and financial support for Coastal Community Church.

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