Since my wife and I, along with a few others began Radiate Church 3 years ago, we've always believed God to do something HUGE! Large vision requires large risks with then results in God sized results. We've never thought Radiate Church would be a single location church, that worries about those within it's walls, stuck at 100-200 people. We've always seen a very large, multi-cultural, multi-generational, life-giving church that exists, promotes, and helps it's community! And we are doing everything we can, regardless of risk, to reach as many as possible and introduce them to the life God intended!
A month ago, during a Team Leader's meeting, we discussed how God has doubled the amount of people that we are introducing to the life God intended in 3 months. We discussed how God has provided us a phenomenal structure to facilitate ministry, and we discussed what we could do to continue to give God room to show off within us! We came to a conclusion... Sunday mornings on Thursday nights!
Here's why:
- During the summer many people take vacations from Friday-Sunday. We want to always give our families room to enjoy each other's company, lives, and memories, so give them a chance to go on vacation and NOT MISS CHURCH! Thursdays was the answer.
- We are within 40 minutes of 3 major hospitals, along with an orthopedic hospital just across the street. Many of their employees work on weekends therefore they can't attend Sunday services. Why not bring Sunday services to them! Thursdays was the answer.
- Why not do it on Wednesday? Around here many churches have Wednesday night service along with a myriad of kids opportunities. We wanted to do Sunday mornings reborn...so instead of fighting the Wednesday night mindset, let's create a new night. Thursdays was the answer.
- We want to be consistently and actively introducing 400 people to the life God intended by the end of August. In order for us to chase that vision we had to create more room. Thursdays was the answer.
- We wanted to create a chance where people could get a quality encounter with Jesus during the week to be encouraged to live the life God intended. Thursdays was the answer.
You see, for every church there's different styles, risks, and decisions that must be made in order to grow into the vision God has given them. For us, our next step (not only do we ask you to take your next step, the church takes next steps as well), for the summer, is Thursdays. Because for us, introducing more and more people to the life God intended, means that Thursdays are the answer!
We kick of May 28 at 6pm with a cookout, service begins at 7pm and we have a special gift for everyone in attendance. It will continue every Thursday night at 7pm for June-July... Sunday morning on Thursday night. Are Thursdays your answer?
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