April 17th, 2011

Breaking barriers is huge. We are going to break a barrier here at the Springs on April 17th, 2011. The barrier we are going to break is about people. This barrier is about changing our culture to one that values reaching as many people as possible for the Glory of God and the expansion on His kingdom. It is our hope and prayer to have over 100 people in our worship service on April 17th, 2011 at 11am. This has never been done in this church.

LCD- Several months ago we put into place our LCD plan. This plan is simple

L=50
C=100
D=500

We wanted to have a consistent 50 people in our worship service and preach transformation of people, culture and attitude. Thanks be to God we have seen this. Now it is time to challenge our selves to the next step. 100 people in worship with a transforming message of life and growth.

Join us and make HIS-STORY on April 17th. Everyone is invited to help us smash this growth barrier and never look back again.

Church Growth Conference

Why have a church growth conference? Creating a culture of growth starts by being intentional. We want to be a growing church. We want to lay the foundation that we are interested in lost souls. We want to lay a foundation that says we want people growing in there faith.

When a church grows is is not an accident. Churches that grow plan to grow. Churches that grow have a strategy. Churches that grow are making a difference in peoples lives.

Jesus said He would "build His Church and the gates of hell would not prevail against it". The right vision with the system with the right effort equals results. It is Gods will for His church to grow. Lets join Christ in His mission.

Whats in a Name

This week Living Springs Church made a decision to start and use the name The Springs to represent the ministry. Why? We wanted to have a name that was easy to use and to remember. We wanted a name would say we are here and ready to meet the challenges of our times. The Springs is a place to find life and to be refreshed. People are not looking for religion they are looking for relationship. We want our church to be atractional and purposeful in it's attempt to help people find new life in Christ.

Update

We have had 2 great Sunday's in a row here at the Springs. We are seeing alot of new faces and reconnecting with some friends. This Sunday we began to promote our Breaking the 100 barrier for April 17th, 2011. We are using the next 10 weeks to lay the ground work for what it will take to have a 100 people in attendance for worship on a Sunday morning.

I am very excited about how people are believing God for great things for our church. We are going to concentrate on the children's ministry (nursery)
and student ministry. We are going to focus on our worship service and our follow up execution.

The foundation for this goal is not the number but the people. We are looking for life change. We are praying for the transformation of lives by the power of God.

Great Day

We had our highest attendence since I have been at living Springs this Sunday. The worship was great and the passion of the people was evident.
We began some fundraisers to help a young missionary get to Australia and we heard a good testimony from him as well. God is good.

God is doing some great things in the lives of His people. God is doing some great things in the life of His Church. This week our message was "The Greatness of God".

Living Springs Church UPDATE

2011 has already been a great year in the making. I can see God is working in the lives of people and that is what really counts. I have made EXECUTION the key word in my life for 2011. I am convince that execution is what i need to key in on for the progress of life and ministry.

I have 3 areas that I will be focusing on for 2011 for living Springs Church

1. Good First Impressions/ doing our best to let people know we care for them enough to have them in mind when they take there time to be our guests.

2. Good Delievery of our message/ Making sure that we have done everything we can to prepare our greeters, teachers, preachers and workers in general to deliever the right message to all who take there time to be our quest.

3. Good follow-up of our quests and members/ taking the right amount of time to let those who have taken the time to be our quest that we are there to serve them in away we can. To not forget the needs of those who are a part of the church family.

I am really looking forward to a great year of making a difference in peoples lives.

Helping fill heaven in 2011

In 2011 we are going to do all we can to reach as many people with God News of the Jesus Christ. We want to "Help Fill Heaven in 2011". 2.7 billion people haven't even heard the story of Jesus. San Antonio is a great mission field and we must let as many people know about what Jesus came to do.

Several thoughts:

We must embrace eternity. If we live our lives in view of eternity we will be reminded of the urgency to help other find Christ.

We must reach those closest to us. We need to be those strong testimonies that will demontrate the power of transformation

We must be bold in our outreach events and services. Peoples souls hang in the balance and we must do all we can to present a clear message.

We must pray as if everything depends on God and work as if everything depends upon us.

Today is the day of Salvation!