Multi-Site Arts

Some of My Favorite People

My wife Rachel and I had the pleasure of having my staff team over for dinner tonight. That included the 5 Champion Directors, their spouses, our Champion Boss, Jon Ferguson and his assistant (and one of my Vocal Coaches) Carrie.

In most offices you get enough of your co-workers at the office during the day and don't really care to spend additional time in the evening with them. But I can honestly say that our team loves to spend time with each other and would do anything to help each other.

Thanks everyone for coming over!

Thank you video from "Crossings Church" in Knoxville

We are using some YouTube type videos from some of our NewThing churches across the U.S. this weekend to show our church how they are a part of something much larger than just our church. Here is the video from "Crossings Church" in Knoxville, TN. It is really good.

Great recruiting video from Mosaic Church

Here is a great video that Mosaic church in L.A. did to get people to sign up for their set-up and tear-down teams.

"Zip It" Series Video Part I

    Here is part one of the series video for our new series "Zip It".

Baptism Montage Video

Here is the baptism video we ran during Communion two weeks ago.

Follow Me Video and Song Moment

Here is the song / video we used last weekend for the moment to finish our NEXT campaign. We performed the Paul McCartney song "Follow Me" live with the video running behind.

I really can't stand the sound of the song when McCartney sings it, but it sounded good with our band and vocals peforming it live.

I really like the Chicago scenery and backgrounds Tom and TJ (our video guys) shot. It is a great video. Simple, but very clean.

Next Conclusion / Testimony Video

We just finished our NEXT campaign at CCC that raised the money to finish phase II of the Yellow Box in Naperville and set us up to plant the next 7 campuses.

Here is the video we used for that service, including the testimony of Leroy Barncord, one of Yellow Box's newest rehearsal leaders and an awesome guitarist.

NewThing Collaberation

I love seeing what other NewThing churches are creating. Here is an intro video made by "The Crossings" church in the northern Chicago suburbs, featuring the mission statement that most NewThing churches use a version of.

So you had a bad day......

Speaking of Church! at Bethany, here are a couple news clips about their stolen trailer full of church equipment. The ultimate "portable church" nightmare.

Another 1 Year Celebration for a NewThing Church

Here is the one year celebration video for Church! at Bethany in Oregon.