In case you missed it, our recent Sports Camp was featured on Cincinnati.com. This was put on as part of our Children’s Ministry, Amelia KidZone.
A huge thanks goes out to Melanie Presta, our Children’s Minister, for organizing this awesome week!
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We’ve posted an audio snippet of Mike and I talking about my vision for my new position as the Creative & Communications Minister at ACC. Take a listen.
Mike posted my “Meet Our Staff” post over at his blog, so I figured I’d link over to it in case there’s something there you didn’t know about me.
This Sunday, July 12, our church will learn the details of an exciting leadership move in our church as we introduce our new Creative and Communications Minister, me!
In this position, I will be responsible for managing all visual communications at ACC. As many of you know, I developed and maintain the ACC website and create many other graphics you see each week. In my new capacity, I’ll also oversee all print publications, signage and other media.
This is currently an unpaid ministry position. I will still be employed full time by an engineering firm. But I am, nonetheless, now an official member of the ACC staff.
As a result of this exciting change, I have also resigned as a deacon at ACC.
This Sunday during both services, I will be sharing my vision for this ministry.
Still processing everything from Unleash 2009. What a great conference. I can’t believe it all happened in one day. Do yourself a huge favor and go watch the videos.
On a non-related note, I had my first doctor’s visit in quite some time yesterday, and it turns out that I need to lose about 20 pounds, which sucks. But thankfully I now have a great doctor who actually cares, asks me questions, and will hold me accountable to try and help me (a novel concept, right?). It’s so refreshing to go to a doctor that actually wants to prevent you from actually needing him. Then he’ll actually be able to focus on the people who really do need his help. I was going to pull a big scriptural connection out of this relating to the church, but I think you get the point. I’ll leave the complex connections to Mike. :)
Now I just need to start posting here more so that I can have some other people holding me accountable for dropping some pounds. I go back in 3 months, and I’d like to have at least dropped 15 (if not all 20) of those pounds by then.
Here we go!
Our church leadership team is gearing up to go to the Unleash Conference at Newspring Church in Anderson, SC this week. It’s going to be a great time for us to grow together as a group and recharge us all.
I’m looking forward to coming back with a renewed passion for what we do. Our preaching minister, Mike Edmisten, and our worship/youth minister, Brian Morrissey, went last year, and they both came back on fire.
The only part I’m not looking forward to is 8 hours in a 15 passenger van with 11 of us. Could get crowded…
Gee. Where has the time gone?
Life is happening. And my blog has fallen by the wayside.
I have a few thoughts stirring around at the moment, so I’ll probably start posting them on here.
One Word: Training.
I’m beginning to lay out a plan to train some people and bring them up to do some of the things that I do so that I can focus on the bigger things. I haven’t done a very good job on this lately, and it’s starting to catch up with me.
Be ready for me to pick your brains about it.
We just shot, edited and uploaded a new welcome video to our church website.
For those of you who know our buddy Jim Willison, currently serving our country in Iraq, here’s a link to a little video message from him that will be featured on Channel 5 (WLWT) throughout the month of December.
We’re praying for you Jimmy. Hope to see you soon.
Jim Willison – Holiday Greeting on WLWT.com
Another whirlwind weekend has come and gone at ACC.
APEX was Saturday night. The theme was Facing Your Giants, based on the Max Lucado book of the same name. We used the story of David and Goliath to show that we should sprint into battle with our giants, whatever they might be.
One of the elements we used was an illustration of just how tall Goliath was. We have these new pillars that spell out the letters of APEX in big, glowing, red letters, and they’re about 8 feet tall each. With a little more height on top of that, Mike placed a wax sculpture of his head on top of it (interesting story – listen to the message to hear about it) to show just how tall Goliath really was. And then we had one of the kids from ACC who was about David’s age come up and stand next to it to show the contrast. Dang, he was tall! I’ve never really visualized it like that, but that was a serious dude to go into battle against.
Thankfully we got an extra hour of sleep that night.
Sunday, we started our new series called LIE$. Lie No. 1 was “The Church Only Wants My Money.” Mike did an amazing job with a message that most ministers struggle with. Money is such a “hot topic” in the church, and he did an excellent job of handling the subject in a biblical way. I’m really looking forward to the rest of the series. Like Mike, I think God is going to blow our minds through this series.
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