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!

This adventure of church planting has been amazing for Shayla and I so far.  It feels like we are on a roller coaster that is in the process of climbing the first hill before the big drop and adventure begins.  Maybe you know the feeling, it is where you are hearing the tick, tick, tick of the coaster being pulled up the hill, the excitement of what is about to happen is mounting and your not sure where your going from here but at the same time you know it is going to be a blast.

We find ourselves right there, pushing our way up this mountain of getting ready to launch Coastal Community Church.  It has been quite a journey up to this point.  We have had some amazing things happen along the way like:

• Getting office space donated to use for our church.
• Building our Dream Team up to 40 people.
• Seeing tons of people come to our informational meetings on Tuesday night.
• Getting a 16 foot enclosed trailer with children and sound equipment donated to us.
• Having the opportunity to purchase a used Portable Church Industries trailer and equipment for an amazing deal.
• Doing tons of outreaches where we have physically touched over 4000 people through random acts of kindness in the community.

I could go on and on about what has been happening with our journey so far, there are so many stories to tell of opportunities we have had to show Christ’s love in a practical way to our community.  God is up to something BIG here in Ft. Lauderdale and He is ready to do a GREATER THING.

Thank you so much for your prayers, your encouragement and your support.  Without these, this dream of planting Coastal Communtiy Church to reach the unchurched, uncommitted and undecided people of Ft. Lauderdale and helping them to become a fully devoted follower of Christ would not be possible.

Please continue to believe with us for peoples lives to be changed, eyes opened to the reality of Christ and for us to make Jesus famous in our community.

Loving God, Loving People and Showing It,
T.J. and Shayla McCormick