Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Fuel Kicks off this week
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Pool Party
You want a free event for your student to go to? Okay done!!
This Saturday at the Arnold's house we will be having a Middle School only pool party form 6:00-8:30 food will be provided. This would be a great time to introduce your friends to the group. 5 graders going into 6th are welcome.
The Arnold's
Arnold
613 Ashwood Ct.
Woodstock, GA 30189
(770) 575-1284
This Tuesday night we will be having a High School Only Pool Party 6:00-8:30 at the Fragnoli's Food will be provided. 8 graders going into 9th are welcome!
Fragnoli's
Fragnoli
Falls of Chrerokee
409 Morgan Falls Chase
Canton, GA 30114
(770) 294-6111
water wings are for Pastor KeithWednesday, July 13, 2011
Here it is the new look of Student Life! It kinda looks like a carbon chain and its supposed to. Carbon is the building block of life, just like I believe participation in Student Life is the building block for you Spiritual Life. All of the main ministry aspects of Student Life are represented in the logo, Student Life, Fusion, Fuel, Elements, Depth, and Leap. Check out the our website to see what each hexagon means!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
ReBranding, ReLaunching, ReTooling
Latter this week we will be launching all the new logos and even a completely new ministry in Student Life at BridgePointe. Its pretty exciting actually and nerve racking. Questions come up like: How will parents receive the changes, will students show up? Does anyone care that we spent hours racking our brains about what all this will look like for this school year? Will it work? Will the Kingdom of God grow because of these efforts? Just because something looks good doesn't mean it wont be a colossal failure. But its important that we go to the effort of this Relaunch. The new logos are meant to give everything the same feel and look, to make our ministry seem more purposeful instead of a collection of things to do.
Here is the point I am working on this morning. ReBranding is an important part of life. We reinvent who we are all the time. Especially at this time of year with students getting ready to go back to school or moving from Middle School to High School. This is an opportunity to rebrand yourself. You dont have to be the person you were last year. Most of the dumb stuff you did has been forgotten, the bad haircut you got has grown out, and you got contacts instead of glasses.
This year you can rebrand yourself, get better friends, try a sport or quit a sport, actually do your homework this year. Start praying for the strength to be the person God wants you to be. Go for it. Sure you might fail but safe is boring.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Motion is Coming
Today we have been working on Motion. Motion is a conference experience that is put on by Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, AL, the fastest growing church in America. It will be an amazing weekend for our students, with artists like Starfield and Leeland leading the worship experiences. I can't wait to see God move in our students at this event. Motion will be July 28-30 and cost $155 per person. Sign up by July 10. We have intentionally stepped down our summer programming to make it easier to afford this experience. Instead of spending $20 here and there we want to focus the resources on an event that will have the most return on the investment. That is how much we believe in Motion. It is easy to sign up your student at the Motion Signup Form. Feel free to contact Jarad with any questions. Medical forms are available at www.bridgepointesudents.com
*Michelle Troche will be in the Lobby to take sign ups this weekend as well as you can use bridgepointe giving to pay the registration PAY HERE
*Michelle Troche will be in the Lobby to take sign ups this weekend as well as you can use bridgepointe giving to pay the registration PAY HERE
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Leap 2011-2012 Sign Ups
Leap End of the Year Trip Video
Leap is designed to help Student jump to the next level in their relationship with God. Students will learn first hand how to build community, how to lead well, and how to serve the church and community. This program is geared to train students to be effective for the Kingdom of god in whatever environment they find themselves in after high school.
Fill out Applications Here
Application is due by July 21
Leap is designed to help Student jump to the next level in their relationship with God. Students will learn first hand how to build community, how to lead well, and how to serve the church and community. This program is geared to train students to be effective for the Kingdom of god in whatever environment they find themselves in after high school.
Fill out Applications Here
Application is due by July 21
Monday, May 23, 2011
Indy Cars are like Churches
So my wife loves the Indy 500. We grew up an hour away from Indianapolis and her Dad sells auto parts. Its kinda in her blood. So over the years I have learned a lot about Indy cars. They used to have different chasis, engines, tires, all kinds of fun stuff. Now they are pretty much the same, same chasis, tires, engines. To me, BORING! Basically every car is the same except for driver and his or her skill. Cool if your the driver but to the guy who wants to see cars go faster and set new records its lame. The reason for the sameness is for safety. A good reason but for 100 years the Indy 500 is been about innovation and creating new things to go faster. But they have gotten away from innovation in favor of safety and the ratings are getting lower and lower ratings article here .
Instead of making everything the same why not innovate better safety equipment. (My imagination has huge blow up balls that cover the cars bouncing around the race track after a wreck.) We don't do that? We retreat to safety instead of moving forward to innovation.
Our churches are like the Indy 500 (not mine of course, just yours hehe) we have gone away from the innovation, the creativity to set new records because we want safety. Think about it. When was the last time you walked into a church and said Woah! Now you probably heard the same Chris Tomlin songs and Hillside United (if you prefer a contemporary service) or the same Gaither songs (I don't want to talk about it). Yeah it may be hard, dangerous, and down right scary but what happens when we push the boundaries. What happens when better systems are put in? How is the kingdom of God effected with drastically different worship, service, and spiritual formation ideas? I am not speaking just to worship styles, but to the way in which we lead the congregation and teach the scripture. Is anyone else tired of Andy Stanley or Rick Warren clones? They are great preachers awesome communicators but I am not them and neither are you. (I tried to be Rob Bell once I even have dark rimmed glasses it didn't work out well)
If the Indy 500 went back to innovation instead of safety ratings would sky rocket. If churches got back to innovating the Kingdom of God would be made present here on earth.
Instead of making everything the same why not innovate better safety equipment. (My imagination has huge blow up balls that cover the cars bouncing around the race track after a wreck.) We don't do that? We retreat to safety instead of moving forward to innovation.
Our churches are like the Indy 500 (not mine of course, just yours hehe) we have gone away from the innovation, the creativity to set new records because we want safety. Think about it. When was the last time you walked into a church and said Woah! Now you probably heard the same Chris Tomlin songs and Hillside United (if you prefer a contemporary service) or the same Gaither songs (I don't want to talk about it). Yeah it may be hard, dangerous, and down right scary but what happens when we push the boundaries. What happens when better systems are put in? How is the kingdom of God effected with drastically different worship, service, and spiritual formation ideas? I am not speaking just to worship styles, but to the way in which we lead the congregation and teach the scripture. Is anyone else tired of Andy Stanley or Rick Warren clones? They are great preachers awesome communicators but I am not them and neither are you. (I tried to be Rob Bell once I even have dark rimmed glasses it didn't work out well)
If the Indy 500 went back to innovation instead of safety ratings would sky rocket. If churches got back to innovating the Kingdom of God would be made present here on earth.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Fuel Kicks off this week
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Pool Party
You want a free event for your student to go to? Okay done!!
This Saturday at the Arnold's house we will be having a Middle School only pool party form 6:00-8:30 food will be provided. This would be a great time to introduce your friends to the group. 5 graders going into 6th are welcome.
The Arnold's
Arnold
613 Ashwood Ct.
Woodstock, GA 30189
(770) 575-1284
This Tuesday night we will be having a High School Only Pool Party 6:00-8:30 at the Fragnoli's Food will be provided. 8 graders going into 9th are welcome!
Fragnoli's
Fragnoli
Falls of Chrerokee
409 Morgan Falls Chase
Canton, GA 30114
(770) 294-6111
water wings are for Pastor KeithWednesday, July 13, 2011
Here it is the new look of Student Life! It kinda looks like a carbon chain and its supposed to. Carbon is the building block of life, just like I believe participation in Student Life is the building block for you Spiritual Life. All of the main ministry aspects of Student Life are represented in the logo, Student Life, Fusion, Fuel, Elements, Depth, and Leap. Check out the our website to see what each hexagon means!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
ReBranding, ReLaunching, ReTooling
Latter this week we will be launching all the new logos and even a completely new ministry in Student Life at BridgePointe. Its pretty exciting actually and nerve racking. Questions come up like: How will parents receive the changes, will students show up? Does anyone care that we spent hours racking our brains about what all this will look like for this school year? Will it work? Will the Kingdom of God grow because of these efforts? Just because something looks good doesn't mean it wont be a colossal failure. But its important that we go to the effort of this Relaunch. The new logos are meant to give everything the same feel and look, to make our ministry seem more purposeful instead of a collection of things to do.
Here is the point I am working on this morning. ReBranding is an important part of life. We reinvent who we are all the time. Especially at this time of year with students getting ready to go back to school or moving from Middle School to High School. This is an opportunity to rebrand yourself. You dont have to be the person you were last year. Most of the dumb stuff you did has been forgotten, the bad haircut you got has grown out, and you got contacts instead of glasses.
This year you can rebrand yourself, get better friends, try a sport or quit a sport, actually do your homework this year. Start praying for the strength to be the person God wants you to be. Go for it. Sure you might fail but safe is boring.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Motion is Coming
Today we have been working on Motion. Motion is a conference experience that is put on by Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, AL, the fastest growing church in America. It will be an amazing weekend for our students, with artists like Starfield and Leeland leading the worship experiences. I can't wait to see God move in our students at this event. Motion will be July 28-30 and cost $155 per person. Sign up by July 10. We have intentionally stepped down our summer programming to make it easier to afford this experience. Instead of spending $20 here and there we want to focus the resources on an event that will have the most return on the investment. That is how much we believe in Motion. It is easy to sign up your student at the Motion Signup Form. Feel free to contact Jarad with any questions. Medical forms are available at www.bridgepointesudents.com
*Michelle Troche will be in the Lobby to take sign ups this weekend as well as you can use bridgepointe giving to pay the registration PAY HERE
*Michelle Troche will be in the Lobby to take sign ups this weekend as well as you can use bridgepointe giving to pay the registration PAY HERE
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Leap 2011-2012 Sign Ups
Leap End of the Year Trip Video
Leap is designed to help Student jump to the next level in their relationship with God. Students will learn first hand how to build community, how to lead well, and how to serve the church and community. This program is geared to train students to be effective for the Kingdom of god in whatever environment they find themselves in after high school.
Fill out Applications Here
Application is due by July 21
Leap is designed to help Student jump to the next level in their relationship with God. Students will learn first hand how to build community, how to lead well, and how to serve the church and community. This program is geared to train students to be effective for the Kingdom of god in whatever environment they find themselves in after high school.
Fill out Applications Here
Application is due by July 21
Monday, May 23, 2011
Indy Cars are like Churches
So my wife loves the Indy 500. We grew up an hour away from Indianapolis and her Dad sells auto parts. Its kinda in her blood. So over the years I have learned a lot about Indy cars. They used to have different chasis, engines, tires, all kinds of fun stuff. Now they are pretty much the same, same chasis, tires, engines. To me, BORING! Basically every car is the same except for driver and his or her skill. Cool if your the driver but to the guy who wants to see cars go faster and set new records its lame. The reason for the sameness is for safety. A good reason but for 100 years the Indy 500 is been about innovation and creating new things to go faster. But they have gotten away from innovation in favor of safety and the ratings are getting lower and lower ratings article here .
Instead of making everything the same why not innovate better safety equipment. (My imagination has huge blow up balls that cover the cars bouncing around the race track after a wreck.) We don't do that? We retreat to safety instead of moving forward to innovation.
Our churches are like the Indy 500 (not mine of course, just yours hehe) we have gone away from the innovation, the creativity to set new records because we want safety. Think about it. When was the last time you walked into a church and said Woah! Now you probably heard the same Chris Tomlin songs and Hillside United (if you prefer a contemporary service) or the same Gaither songs (I don't want to talk about it). Yeah it may be hard, dangerous, and down right scary but what happens when we push the boundaries. What happens when better systems are put in? How is the kingdom of God effected with drastically different worship, service, and spiritual formation ideas? I am not speaking just to worship styles, but to the way in which we lead the congregation and teach the scripture. Is anyone else tired of Andy Stanley or Rick Warren clones? They are great preachers awesome communicators but I am not them and neither are you. (I tried to be Rob Bell once I even have dark rimmed glasses it didn't work out well)
If the Indy 500 went back to innovation instead of safety ratings would sky rocket. If churches got back to innovating the Kingdom of God would be made present here on earth.
Instead of making everything the same why not innovate better safety equipment. (My imagination has huge blow up balls that cover the cars bouncing around the race track after a wreck.) We don't do that? We retreat to safety instead of moving forward to innovation.
Our churches are like the Indy 500 (not mine of course, just yours hehe) we have gone away from the innovation, the creativity to set new records because we want safety. Think about it. When was the last time you walked into a church and said Woah! Now you probably heard the same Chris Tomlin songs and Hillside United (if you prefer a contemporary service) or the same Gaither songs (I don't want to talk about it). Yeah it may be hard, dangerous, and down right scary but what happens when we push the boundaries. What happens when better systems are put in? How is the kingdom of God effected with drastically different worship, service, and spiritual formation ideas? I am not speaking just to worship styles, but to the way in which we lead the congregation and teach the scripture. Is anyone else tired of Andy Stanley or Rick Warren clones? They are great preachers awesome communicators but I am not them and neither are you. (I tried to be Rob Bell once I even have dark rimmed glasses it didn't work out well)
If the Indy 500 went back to innovation instead of safety ratings would sky rocket. If churches got back to innovating the Kingdom of God would be made present here on earth.
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