Elevation: Chapter 2
As we discussed at our August Town Hall meeting, we're moving into our next chapter of Elevation's story by really investing in our City Groups. City Groups are a "missional community". ...
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What does it mean that we're a "church-planting church"?
The mission of the church is creating disciples who create disciples. Church plants have proven to be the most effective way to accomplish this. ...
Belong. Believe. Become.
We have a mission statement! One that actually was thought through! ...
Accidental Pharisees
Chris reviews Larry Osborne's "Accidental Pharisees"...
Keep ReadingAnyone else think this is weird?
From the outside, it would seem we are a bunch of cannibalistic, incestuous wierdos who sing songs to a criminal who was dead (then who wasn't dead). Let's face it, almost everything that really matters to a follower of Jesus is weird. ...
Keep ReadingLight Shines Brightest in the Darkest Places
Couple years ago at a conference on missions, one of the speakers smacked me upside the head with this and I haven't been able to shake it, "There are three types of Christians: Those who go, those who send and those who are disobedient." Ouch. A buddy of mine and friend of Elevation is working very hard to raise support so he can go to the ends of the earth for the sak...
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40 days of prayer leading up to Resurrection Sunday...
Keep ReadingA Super Sunday
Elevation's first Baptism Sunday was SUPER....
Keep ReadingFire Alarms & Free Burgers
It happened. When someone asks "how's Elevation Chris?" I playfully respond that there haven't been any fire alarms yet. Time for a new line. Three weeks into this little experiment in mid-urban church planting in the cafeteria of a Junior High School, we arrived for set up yesterday to hear a blaring siren. But we would not be deterred. Over the next hour and a half ou...
Keep ReadingCostumes, Burgers & a Bounce House
Saturday, October 26 from 5-8:00 pm Costume Cookout at 2100 Lee Street SW...
Keep ReadingA beautiful circus of crazies & freaks
A beautiful circus of crazies & freaks Grand Opening October 13...
Keep ReadingSo I Got This Postcard In The Mail...
We're trying to get the word our about Sunday's preview service so you may have received a postcard in the mail. Maybe that's how you got here. If so, cool! Check out our site and find out what we're all about. We're just real people trying to make a difference. Nothing creepy, no weird cult stuff going on. And it's not a pyramid scheme. Okay, it's sorta like a pyramid ...
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