Weekend Recap: 01-16-11

22 weeks. That's how old are campus is. If I am being honest, it feels more like 2 years and 2 weeks than it does 22 weeks! So much has happened in 22 weeks! This past weekend we had our largest crowd since early September. This is very exciting, but what is more exciting than this, is that it took us 21 weeks to launch our 2nd life group at Stone Canyon, and it only took us 1 more week to launch our 3rd life group! Many people have joined a group for the first time at FCC!

We are very excited about this because we aren't just a campus with life groups, we are a campus of life groups! We believe in what life groups are about!

We want people to come together and do 4 simple, yet powerful things!

1. Have fun together (get together and eat, it's the American way!)

2. Study God's word together (there is no greater road map to life!)

3. Pray together

4. Serve together (each other and others)

Please email stonecanyon@fccowasso.com e to learn more about how you can get involved in a life group!

Blessings,

Bobby Reed

Weekend Recap: 01-09-11

State of the church:

This weekend we got a great message from Charlie Curran, our Senior Minister, on the state of the church. We looked back a little bit to 2010 but we looked forward into 2011 and were challenged with how we can impact the kingdom this year!

1. We need to be reading our bibles

Many of us Christians simply do not read our bibles enough or at all. Remember, read you bible for transformation in your life, not just to get through it.

2. We need to worship

Worshipping God isn't something we just do on Sunday mornings, it's a mindset where God is the center of everything we do, not just the top of a checklist. As a church, we can do much more good for the kingdom together, and this starts with worshipping together during the weekend. Make it a standard that you are worshipping with the church family weekly!

3. We need to serve

This is simple, we need to be meeting the needs of those within the church and within our communities outside the church. Serving starts with our attitudes and our hearts.

4. We need to give

Generosity is the way to go! Be generous with your time, your abilities, and with your monies.

5. Invest and Invite

Acts 1:8 tells us to "Go and Make disciples." This starts with relationships right where you are! You don't have to be an expert to show someone you care about them!

God is doing great things through his Church globally and through his church at FCC, come be a part of it on Sundays at 10:00am as we celebrate what God has been doing in our lives!

2010 Recap

Wow! That is all I can say! I was recently looking at some photos for our Launch Weekend back in August. It seems sooooo long ago! After 4.5 months of being a launched church campus, things are going better than imagined! Why? Because God is in it, to win it!

Highlights:

1. Over 100 1st time visitors

2. new families have partnered with us

3. 632 hours of service hours given back to our communities through the "Love Thy Neighbor" initiative in a 9 week period.

4. Many new leaders are rising up in leading the way in ministry efforts!

We are so excited to see what God is going to do through the campus and through the people in it!

Remember, new service time is 10:00am on Sundays!

Happy New Year!

Weekend Recap: 12-19-10

WOW!

We had a great worship service this past Sunday! God is/was moving through our micro-church with a mega-vision!

Thank you to the dozens of VOLUNTEERS who pull of the weekend services and thank you to the many more who are being the church beyond Sunday morning worship services! Remember you don't go to church, you are the CHURCH!

Highlights:

1. We had many first time guests

2. The music worship team did a great job and the people sang loud from the seats!

3. Our Early Childhood team prepared our 3, 4, and 5 year olds to sing during the service and the kids did great!

4. We announced our new service time beginning January 2nd, 2011 for 10:00am!!!

5. We passed our God size goal of 500 hours of service towards others.

6. We have new families getting plugged into life groups!

Challenge:

This Christmas season, how are you going to continue to show God's love for people when the holidays are over and the parties have come and went, when there are no longer people ringing bells for donations?

Remember needy people, are needy all year round! Meet their physical needs and see how the Spirit of God may use you to meet their spiritual needs too!

Merry Christmas!

Weekend Recap:12-12-10

WOW!

We had a great week at the Stone Canyon campus! We had over 75 hours of Love Thy Neighbor time turned in! We had a great music portion of our worship service and the band brought lots of energy!

God continues to bless us with visitors and we have many families making FCC their church home!

After the service we had our fastest tear down to date and we didn't even have the usual help of a North Garnett Campus life group that we normally receive on 2nd Sundays.

God is moving in this place, lives are being changed, and he continues to reveal himself through his Church!

This coming weekend we will be making a HUGE announcement that you do not want to miss!

Weekend Recap 12-5-10

We had another great weekend of fellowship and worship services! We began the series "Christmas Stories."

How is Jesus' story going to intersect your story this Christmas season? Will you be hungry and ready to respond or will you wait and make excuses?! Open your heart to the voice of God this month, and remember sometimes God uses subtle whispers to speak into our lives! Don't let the noise of life drowned out the voice of God in your life!

FYI:

200 hours to go! We have eclipsed the 300 hour mark towards our goal of 500 hours of service towards others outside of the church family. Let's finish strong! If every adult at our campus would give 3 hours of service between now and the end of the year, we will accomplish this God size goal!! You can do it!!

Recently we rolled out an Electronic Newsletter that we will send out Bi-weekly. This will serve as another avenue to communicate and highlight things that are going on within in the FCC family.

Have a blessed rest of the week!

Weekend Recap: 11-28-10

This weekend we wrapped a powerful series called "How to Be Rich." (1 Timothy 6:17-19)

Hopefully you were able to be a part or all of this series!

After 15 weeks of having services at the Stone Canyon campus, God is still bringing visitors to the campus!

We had our fastest tear down ever, thanks to the "Get a life" life group from the North Garnett campus for coming over and making this happen!!

We have eclipsed 200 service hours towards our goal of 500 hours by the end of the year! We are 40% there, let's keep it up!!!!

Check out the link where you can read more about the initiative and you can also submit your service hours!

This week we will have a "LTN" opportunity through "Serve Owasso Day."

We are going to meet at the North Garnett Campus on Saturday December 4th, at 930am and send teams out to pick up trash in various location around town!

http://www.fccowasso.com/#/stone-canyon-campus/love-thy-neighbor

Have a blessed week and bring a friend to the Stone Canyon campus this Sunday as we begin a new series "Christmas Stories."