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 [...]
READ MORE »A good friend of mine sent me this article posted by Perry Noble (pastor at NewSpring Church), and I couldn’t help but post it. He is discussing the misnomer some people have that wearing a suit or dress to church actually makes you “more godly.” Man, I could not agree more with what he is [...]
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Last Sunday, we didn’t have a “sermon” at Amelia. The last message in our Decibels series was brought by four individuals in our church family via video testimonies or stories. I finally got them posted last night, so you can see all four of them on our website. Go check them out when you have [...]
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We’re back from CIY and now in the midst of VBS (it’s like the month of acronyms or something). CIY was amazing. It was great to get to know some of our high schoolers more and to see them grow throughout the week. We have some great kids at ACC. Marie and I also got [...]
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Our youth group is getting ready to head to CIY in Illinois this upcoming week, and they happened to be two sponsors short at the last minute due to some unforeseen schedule changes, so Marie and I decided to jump on board! We had originally considered going months ago when the suggestion was brought up, [...]
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Read a great post over at eMinistryNotes this morning about explaining RSS in plain English. I’ve taken a stab at it on our church’s website before, but this video (from CommonCraft) does a great job explaining things. Check it out. Click To Play play_blip_movie_209879(); There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS [...]
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Our new student ministries website is officially live starting today. You can visit it at www.ameliastudents.com. We’ve worked really hard to make it a safe and fun place for our students and their friends. You’ll probably see some changes with it over the next several months as we tweak it to be even more centered [...]
READ MORE »Our very own Mike Edmisten is being featured in a Cincinnati Enquirer article called Preaching beyond the pulpit: Web-savvy pastors turn to blogs. It’s pretty cool to see the things that have changed and the new people that have been reached because of the use of our website and Mike’s blog. He’s really embraced it [...]
READ MORE »Just a reminder for those of you in the area that Apex is back tomorrow, Saturday, February 3. It starts at 6:00pm, and the doors open at 5:40pm. Not sure what Apex is? You can read more about Apex on our website. We’ll actually have a video commercial online very soon (I may possibly be [...]
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Wow. I’m impressed. Back in November, I posted about installing ActiveCollab so that we could try it out for our planning for Apex and the “new” website. Well, it’s now February, and we’re still using it. I think we’re all hooked on it, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Here are some of [...]
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