We set up people for failure if we teach them what they can do rather than teach them character
The Jesus paradigm is the foundation of character
- God wants us to be a good person… but it’s more about being revolutionary than “good”
- The only way we can get oil (anointing) out of an olive it to squeeze it
- Our culture is not deliberate about our purpose
- We often whimsically walk through life without being deliberate
- We need to become more intentional in becoming the kind of person we want to be
- Our life is one seamless piece, we try to compartmentalize things, but our actions impact every area
- “What I do in private doesn’t influence what I do in public” - myth
- Mark 1:35… ”That is why I came”
- Peter was manipulated by the expectations of the crowd, thus forcing expectations on Jesus
- Jesus replied in such a way that brought clarity and dashed external expectation
- Christian leaders often get caught in the trap of fulfilling external expectations because we don’t know our purpose and vision
- When you know what kind of person you are supposed to be or our purpose, you won’t get stuck fulfilling expectations that are forced on us
- Do you know what God is calling you to?
- “The one thing I do”
- What is the “one thing” you do?
- A lot of us have many things, not just “one thing” that we do… we need to simplify
- How do we do that?
- Jesus was intentional with one thing - he went to an isolated place to pray
- We are in danger with “expertise” - we have to be careful with second-hand information
- We listen to second-hand info before we listen to God
- Jesus had authority… Pharisees would quote other Rabbis but Jesus quoted no one… “I say to you”
- Through Jesus’ intimate relationship with the Father, his purpose became clear
- You can only know if something is counterfeit if you know the real thing
- It’s important that we have counselors, however we must listen to God’s voice
- Proverbs 3:5-7 (Message) “…listen to God’s voice in everything you do”
- Character is your will to do something even when you don’t feel like doing it
- Feelings are irrelevant - we put our trust in God
- Our soul screams misleading messages - the Word of God is the authority
Action Items
- Get a list of characteristic that you want to define you - what kind of person do you want to be
- Do this in the context of Jesus - not general platitudes
- Example: living cruciform - be a cross bearing leader
- One one level it’s general selflessness
- On another it means to literally loose your life over your confession of faith
- Wake up in the morning early, find an isolated place, and pray for an hour
- If you lack clarity, spend time time with God
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Staff Meeting - June 19th, 2009
1. WINS!!!
- Women’s Encounter
- Weekend Services…response!
- Interns
2. Fire Evacuation
- Staff…help evacuate people out to nearest Exit and out to the middle to backside of the parking lot
- No longer park on the North side gravel (access)
3. Membership Interviews…Sunday Deadline!
4. Passpoint Keycards
5. EVENTS!
- Meridian Dairy Days
- GCB Camp
- Worship at the Ranch-June 26
- Benny Perez
- Ladies Night Out-w/ Wendy Perez (June 28th)
- 4th of July
- VBX-July 12-14
- John Bevere
6. Leadership Development - Pastor Krist
- authority-consistency in what you say and what you do, being called by God, being under authority
- we don’t want to just manage people, we want to lead/impart/influence people
- having a following & being a leader worth following are different…the difference-Developing Character
- Daniel 3:13-Nebuchanezzar claims to have control over the outcome
- What king/thing in my life claims to have control over me? (fear, anxiety, memory, limitations)
- What are the things in my life that tempt me to compromise?
- What is it in me that will maintain my convictions & character?
- Must have a deep sense of God, and know He is the source of our blessing!
- What was the reason Shad, Mesh, Abed stood up to the king?
- They knew that God was the source of their blessing (talents, skills, purpose)
#1. They exemplified radically simple faith. Be freed from complexities of faith/fear/rational. Confront fear & walk in simple faith.
-crisis reveals who you really are
-need to develop & prepare our lives for those crises…to have unwavering faith
-seek character, not charisma
What are the kings/things that claim to control us?
-define who we want to be (don’t be ambiguous)
-put together a list of characteristics of who we want to be
*God is calling us, as leaders, to walk in character & consistency!!
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: “What are the kings/things that claim to control you?? (Please comment)
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Source: Andy Stanley, “The Next Generation Leader”
Are you a leader worth following?
Would you follow you?
What was so remarkable about Jesus?
* The consistency between His beliefs and His behavior
* Jesus was not a part of any group, religious - or political. Yet he changed the world
Institutional authority (i.e. laying on of hands) is a result of the authority that leaders see in you
* Barack Obama has power, Mother Theresa has authority
* If we are not careful, we can get locked into the “business” of church and we forget our authority
* Authority = exosia. Means “out from oneself”
* Influence/Authority comes from the quality of your life. Your character
* Character = the ability to do what is right when it hurts
* As we align our beliefs with our behavior that is when we’ll obtain authority
* Our wisdom is cheap… we have to get a hold of the logic of the Kingdom
* We cannot manufacture authority
We have to guard against narcissism
* Celebrity does not make narcissists. Narcissists seek out celebrity.
* Narcissism is being acted out, normalized, and mimicked.
* If we are using ministry to further ourselves, we are in it as narcissists
* Paul talks about all of his failures, weaknesses, suffering - not his accomplishment
o Paul equates success with obedience
* We equate popularity with success
We are to meditate and obey and then we will be prosperous.
* There is an intrinsic link between devotion and destiny
* If we try to skip to destiny or success, we forget
* We will be judged by how we lead people, not where we lead them
* The straight/shortest way isn’t always the best way. Nor God’s way
* Just because we have charisma or popularity doesn’t mean we have influence
Our paradigm is bearing our cross.
Character is absolutely essential for our leadership model.
What kind of leader do you want to be? Click to discuss!
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Staff Meeting Notes - May 29th, 2009
1. Back Office Copy Room
-keep things cleaned up
2. Passpoint Key Cards
-Herb has them if you need one
3. Storage Office Cleared Out
-Shane’s old office-take your stuff by next week, or it will get tossed
4. Weekend Corporate Video Announcements:
- Welcome Guests
- Hi-lite One Major Corporate Event
- Refer congregation to e-news for all other events
5. Tuesday Staff Meetings:
-9am up to noon - Team Meetings
-Lunch - Team Leaders Meeting
-2:30-3:30pm - Ministry Leaders Meeting
6. Leadership Training:
-Altar Ministry - Kelly Wilde
-Altar Team Training on Sunday, June 7th at 6p in Prayer Room
**Prayer & Commissioning for Interns-Friday, June 12th at 9am
Intern Graduation on Sunday, June 14th
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STAFF MEETING - 5.8.09
1. WINS!!!
- Marriage Conference
- Easter
- Capital Women’s Weekly
- Women’s Encounter
- Women’s Conference
- Men’s Monthly Gathering
- Men’s Weekly Discipleship
- Men’s Encounter
- Staring Point Classes
- Basics Classes
- Water Baptisms
- Membership Class
2. The importance of thanking Volunteers in little ways
3. Guiding people through their journey (starting point surveys)
- ministry leaders will receive the surveys from each person that attend Starting Point Class weekly…your responsible to follow up
-we are “coaches”, personally responsible to help guide people to their next step
4. Passpoint Key Cards
-Identify individuals who do not have a Passpoint Key Card
-always swipe your card at the NW doors (near intern room)
5. Storage items…
-don’t drop things off at the bottom of the stairwell
-THANKS FRANK!!-for cleaning upstairs, taking things up the stairs, modeling excellence, maturity, and a great attitude!
-Development of idea, gathering resources, pulling off the idea/event….we must remember the task is not completed until after the event
-Remember step number 5!!! Clean it up, put it away, leave the classroom how you found it, follow up with that person!!
6. Calendar events:
MAY
May 9th at 11am: Charles & Heather Green’s Reception in Lobby
May 9th & 10th: Mother’s Day & Baby Dedications (giving each mom a pen)
May 16th: Membership Seminar
May 16th: GCB Applebee’s Fundraiser
May 16th: Salt & Pepper Lunch
May 22nd: Single Mom’s Night Out
May 23rd: Youth Pastors Networking Breakfast
May 23rd & 24th: Honoring Graduates (with a book)
May 24th: GCB Basketball Fundraiser
May 30th & 31st: GCKids Choir Spring Performance & Promotion Weekend
JUNE
June 5th: Waiting Kind CD Release Concert
June 6th: Men’s Breakfast
June 7th: GCB Vision Banquet
June 13th & 14th: Women’s Encounter
June 14th: Intern Graduation
June 20th: Beliefs Class
June 20th & 21st: Father’s Day Services
June 21st -24th: GCB Jr. High Camp
June 24th-27th: GCB Sr. High/College Camp
June 27th & 28th: Benny Perez
June 28th: Ladies Night Out w/ Wendy Perez
JULY
July 4th: 4th of July Celebration
July 11th: Servants Class
July 15th-17th: VBX
July 18th & 19th: John Bevere
July 18th-25th: GCB Mexico Trip
AUGUST
August 13th-15th: GCB Live-Joel Stockstill, Jon Stockstill & Deluge
*Be aware of these events when scheduling your vacation for the summer, as well as any other events for the summer.
SUPER HUGE AND MOST IMPORTANT NOTE OF ALL-TIME!!!!!!! As we are all super busy during this great momentum that God has birthed in our church, be sure to spend time in “Mary-mode” so that “Martha-mode” doesn’t consume you!
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Staff Meeting- April 3rd, 2009
This weekend’s services:
* raw, authentic focus on the cross
* pray for a fresh move of the Spirit, the anointing, for freedom
* Palm Sunday-Good Friday-Resurrection Sunday: Mark 8-16 everyday for Passion Week
* approach the text like you’ve never read the story!
Pastor Ken
-integrate departments so we communicate and are all on the same page, headed forward together
-your team is not “your team”…it’s Pastor Ken’s team w/ God’s vision
-your team is not the “most important”
-Town Hall gave us momentum & direction…take advantage of it!
-Wilder prayer outpost-they are pumped!
-starting Mtn. Home prayer as a prayer outpost
-pray for each other’s ministries everyday
-it’s during flood season that God wants us to cross the Jordan-we are in flood season!
-pray for Pastor Wendell
1. Town Hall Ministry Interest Forms - Follow Up is priority today! All phone calls, emails for your ministry and to your volunteers need to be made TODAY!
2. Next Tuesday…Corporate Calendar Team Leader Planning Meeting regarding STEPS etc.
-Therefore, please begin planning your ministry department’s events once this is posted to ensure that there is not any overlap.
3. J-Log Video Shoots
-New Deadline of Friday, May 15th, due to Easter prep
-Systematically move from one Ministry Dept to next
4. Easter Planning/Prep by Team…how is your Team doing?
* Please give Jenn Lee ASAP a list of how many volunteers your team needs for the EASTER EGG HUNT and the volunteer positions (i.e. monitoring jumphouses, egg judging, etc.). She will email you your list of volunteers to contact by the end of the day. Thanks!
-communication either builds trust or breaks down trust…lets build trust!
5. There will be an ALL STAFF Cleaning Extravaganza next Thursday, April 9th starting at 1pm…come dressed to help clean!
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Easter at Capital 2009
OVERVIEW
March 8th-29th: “Forward Together”
March 28th & 29th: “Forward Together” w/ Grocery Bag Project
March 29th at 6pm: TOWN HALL MEETING
- Vision casting, video testimonies, volunteer strategy, share discipleship process
April 4th & 5th: PALM SUNDAY SERVICES “I Will Rise”
April 11th at 10:30am: COMMUNITY EGG HUNT
April 11th at 5pm: PRAYER SERVICE FOR VOLUNTEERS??
April 12th at 8am, 10am, and 12pm: EASTER SERVICES “I Will Rise”
April 18th & 19th: POST-EASTER SERVICES “I Will Rise”
April 26th-May17th: “Christ Followers”
May 23rd-: “Steps”
EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN: create ways to reach out to the community and invite them to Easter services
- Grocery Bag Project
- Community Egg Hunt
VOLUNTEER CAMPAIGN: 1000 volunteers to serve throughout the 3 week series “I Will Rise”, and commit to serving after Easter
- Town Hall Meeting
- Prayer Service for Volunteers
PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN: effectively communicate Easter events to the community in as many ways as possible
**DISCOVER TEAM: Coordinate & Oversee Publicity Campaign for all Easter events
- Tickets for each service
- Radio Ads
- Mailer
- Yard Sign
- TV Ads
- utilize Mission Media
- Social Networking tools (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Blogs)
- Community Calendars (KTSY, KTVB, etc.)
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TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES: GROCERY BAG PROJECT (EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN)
Saturday, March 28th & Sunday, March 29th after services
- every family is encouraged to take a grocery bag, fill it with groceries, and give it to a neighbor or a family in the community that is in need
- grocery bags will also be an invitation to our Easter events, as they will contain information on our Community Egg Hunt and Easter Services
**GROW TEAM: Coordinate & Oversee Grocery Bag Project
- Submit design request & content for in-house promotions
- Call local grocery stores to see if they’ll “partner” with us in this project, donate bags, print our logo/info on one side of the bag
- Put together an instruction sheet to go with Grocery Bags
- Coordinate with local communities or agencies to donate bags to (Hope’s Arms low income apartments, World Relief-refugees, DFS, etc.)
- Coordinate volunteers to hand bags/info sheets out to people as they leave the sanctuary on March 28th & 29th
DISCOVER TEAM:
- Create & carry out a publicity campaign for the Grocery Bag Project (call local tv stations, utilize networking websites, etc.)
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TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES: TOWN HALL MEETING (VOLUNTEER CAMPAIGN)
Sunday, March 29th at 6pm
**DISCOVER TEAM: Oversee & coordinate Town Hall Meeting
- Worship Set (2-3 songs)
- Service Production
- Produce video testimonies
- Produce videos of different areas to serve
- Design & print volunteer commitment cards
- Design & print “Next Steps” information
CONNECT TEAM:
- Submit design request & content for volunteer card to the DISCOVER TEAM
- Have volunteer cards ready for people to fill out to commit to serve for “I Will Rise” services and following
- Volunteer coordination & follow-up:
- 1. Send email to each person that makes a commitment (Jenn Lee)
- 2. Send each person’s contact information to the Volunteer Team Leader of the team they are interested in (Jenn Lee)
- 3. Volunteer Team Leaders contact prospects with the information on how to serve on their teams
- 4. Follow up email to all those that made a commitment to be sure they have been contacted (Jenn Lee)
GROW TEAM:
- Have calendar dates & descriptions ready of all “Next Steps” events (Encounters, Membership, Discipleship process)
- Submit design request & content for “Next Steps” brochure to the DISCOVER TEAM
GC TEAM:
- Coordinate child care for Town Hall Meeting
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TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES: COMMUNITY EGG HUNT (EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN)
Saturday, April 11th from 10:30am-3pm
11:30 gcKids show starts
gcKids show ends
NOON 1st round of egg hunting starts (3 and under and special needs)
4-5 year olds
1st & 2nd graders
3rd & 4th graders
5th & 6th graders
1:00 gcKids show starts
gcKids show ends
2nd round of egg hunting starts (3 and under and special needs)
4-5 year olds
1st & 2nd graders
3rd & 4th graders
5th & 6th graders
10:30-3pm Carnival on front lawn
**CONNECT TEAM: oversee & coordinate Community Egg Hunt
- Oversee Egg Donations & Egg Stuffing
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- Ask Small Groups and individuals to take plastic eggs, stuff them with individually wrapped candy, and bring back
- Put blue bins in lobby & empty each weekend, keep track of how many eggs we receive (need over 10,000)
- Order more candy & eggs if necessary
- Set up fields
- Coordinate volunteers to direct people from sanctuary to back fields
- Coordination of Egg hunting
1 Field Coordinator
5-6 people per field (5 fields)
5 couples to rotate around out front (hosting)-Handing out flyers/candy to families
2 people on bullhorn
1 emcee on front lawn giving instructions
- Coordinate Vendors (Jenn Lee)
Paradise Ice
Funnel Cakes
Murphy’s Minis
Super Pollo
- Ask Totman’s to wear winnie the pooh & tigger
- Reserve Inflatables (Noon-8pm)
- Submit design request & content for agenda/map/lost child info/
- Coordinate volunteer station: where volunteers sign in/get assignments/answer questions (Jenn Lee)
- Coordinate facilities details, set up, clean up
GC TEAM:
- GCKids Live Production: script, media, rehearsals
- Get donations for prize giveaway, purchase prizes, make sign up slips, coordinate prize drawing
- Balloons: have a team to blow up balloons & hand them out
- Hide eggs in the auditorium
- Rent 1 bunny costume (The Costume Shop) & assign someone to wear it (Nancy Bingham or Krystal Bingham)
GROW TEAM:
- Oversee Carnival on front lawn
- Host inflatables (set up schedule of volunteers for 5 inflatables for 3 hours)
- Set up & host other activities (i.e.three legged race, sack hop race, fire truck, petting zoo)
- Coordinate First Aid Station (1 nurse, doctor, or paramedic from 10:30a-2p)
- Coordinate Information booth/Lost Child Area: hand out papers with agenda, have people sign up to win prizes, info on Easter Services
- Invite local mascots (have a competition for them)-broncos, hawks, steelheads, high school mascots
DISCOVER TEAM:
- Coordinate all Promotions for event: postcards, banner on front lawn
- Set up sound system for front (announcements & music)
- Make sure electrical needs are met: Phil
- Coordinate Security Team
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