Weekend Reflections
My first reflection is this: we've got an amazing teaching team. One of the great joys I've experienced over this last year is seeing Joel Schmidgall and Heather Zempel come into their own as communicators. It takes so much pressure off me! I know that we aren't going to skip a beat when they speak because they are amazing communicators!
We continued our God @ the Movies series and Joel's message on The Pursuit of Happyness was off the hook. It blessed me and challenged me.
We did our annual survey today. We actually take five minutes during all eight services because the survey is that important to us! It helps us keep a pulse on key demographics and spiritgraphics.
I played point pastor at our three services at Union Station today. The highlight of the day for me was shaking several hundred hands. One of the challenges we face with 8 services in 4 locations is that I can't be everywhere all the time. Sometimes I'm flying around preaching so I miss the personal touch. I used to really struggle with that until I heard something Andy Stanley said. He said, "Everybody needs to know Jesus. Not everybody needs to know Andy Stanley." That helped me get past the guilt and we've got amazing teams at our locations, but it was good to be able to just be a guerrilla greeter today!
Oh yah, very cool to connect with some visiting pastors today. Almost every weekend we have several pastors or churches visiting NCC. Cool to connect with the team from Christ Fellowship in Miami.
We continued our God @ the Movies series and Joel's message on The Pursuit of Happyness was off the hook. It blessed me and challenged me.
We did our annual survey today. We actually take five minutes during all eight services because the survey is that important to us! It helps us keep a pulse on key demographics and spiritgraphics.
I played point pastor at our three services at Union Station today. The highlight of the day for me was shaking several hundred hands. One of the challenges we face with 8 services in 4 locations is that I can't be everywhere all the time. Sometimes I'm flying around preaching so I miss the personal touch. I used to really struggle with that until I heard something Andy Stanley said. He said, "Everybody needs to know Jesus. Not everybody needs to know Andy Stanley." That helped me get past the guilt and we've got amazing teams at our locations, but it was good to be able to just be a guerrilla greeter today!
Oh yah, very cool to connect with some visiting pastors today. Almost every weekend we have several pastors or churches visiting NCC. Cool to connect with the team from Christ Fellowship in Miami.
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I'd love to see what your annual survey looks like. What type of questions do you ask and what are you learning from it all?
I second what Jonathan said
Hey Mark,
I am a Pastor in Jersey and a close friend of Buddy Cremeans. I got the chance to be at your service this weekend. I went to the one at Ebenezers, and also Georgetown. Had a great time seeing your ministry. By the way your team was great and really made us feel welcome. Joel was awesome. A perfect choice for a message on happiness.
I third what Jonathan said.
We do an annual survey as well and it would be great to see what you guys do. We are seriously retooling ours right now.
If for some reason you don't want to post it, I would love to have an email copy. You can reach me at noel [AT] eriv [DOT] net
Mark
Thanks so much for allowing our team from our new W Kendall campus to be with you guys. They walked away with two big words: "creative" and "authentic".
We appreciate you and your church.
God bless,
eric
Eric,
What a great team! Really enjoyed meeting them. And I loved Simple Church. Read it last week. So good. In fact, I'm going to post some thoughts on it and it will guide us as we put together strategic plans for 08.
Thanks!
Mark
Hey all,
We'll post the survey asap so you can take a look.
Mark
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