10/18/2011

Internship at NewSpring Church

The deadline for the Spring 2012 Intern applicants is coming up on November 7th! If you would like to apply for it please be sure they do so before then. Info, the application and lots more can be found at www.newspring.cc/internships.

WHO ARE YOU BRINGING WITH YOU SUNDAY?

Life Of Job TV Ad from NewSpring Media on Vimeo.

10/15/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY we saw 12 more people confess Jesus as Lord, God, and King! We have now seen almost 200 people give their lives to Christ in just 9 months!!! That blows my mind!

Thanks to everyone who hung around to help flip the room at the Convention Center. We were able to get everything loaded out in record time and served the facility staff in a BIG way. A volunteer told me that as they walked through the room next door to us last week, they could tell that the Convention Center staff was listening to the message as they worked. I am so grateful to do life with people who want to be salt and light!!

THIS SUNDAY we have a very special guest, Matthew Barnett, from the Dream Center in LA. You will not want to miss this weekend!

We will be passing out invite cards this weekend again. Be sure to pick some up, pray over them, and look for the opportunities God provides to use them.

9/24/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY 9 people confessed Jesus as Savior, Lord and King! That is so exciting. Good job inviting people! Keep it up!!

THIS SUNDAY we wrap up the Revelation series, and I can not wait to see how God moves. You do not want to miss it! Just giving you a heads up that you will definitely hear about it if you aren't there.

We are having the service in Ballroom A, and KidSpring will be upstairs. Look for the parking signs and flags to direct you where to go. Load-in will happen at 4am for production and at 6am for KidSpring/Guest Services. We have a little more to set up tomorrow than we do on a regular Sunday. So, a few extra hands in the morning or some people to hang around after the 11:15am service would be GREAT!!

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

9/17/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY the opening statement of the message was, "Religion and Reputation always prohibit Recognition of and Submission to Jesus". That is so true and SO GOOD! It's ALL about Jesus and He is enough, regardless!

It was so amazing to see all the people standing at the end of the service, acknowledging the fact of a "Next Step" that they needed to take. For a couple of weeks now I have been praying for one guy in particular and to see him stand at the end of the second service made my month!

THIS SUNDAY is the second to last week in the Revelation series. Come expecting more from these last two Sundays then all the previous ones combined!

We are in Exhibit Hall B this week and KidSping will be right above us upstairs. Load-in will happen at 4am. The temperatures are much cooler so you will probably not even sweat! Most of the time we are done by 5:30am. So, you can come and be home in time for breakfast or a quick nap before the 9:15 or 11:15 service.

DON'T FORGET!!! Wear your favorite football team colors Sunday. It will have something to do with Revelation and the message.

We have Ownership Class Sunday at 2:30pm. You can sign up here; http://www.newspring.cc/nextsteps/commit/ groups are kicking off this week, and you can sign up for those as well: https://newspring.infellowship.com/GroupSearch

The past 8 months have been some of the best I have ever lived. It is a joy and a privilege to do life with everyone at NewSpring Charleston. Let's not keep this to ourselves because people around us are searching for what we have whether they know it or not! Keep making the "Holy City" HOLY each and every day! Love you guys!

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

9/13/2011

Guest Post: Brendan Mendenhall Discipleship Director

Hey NewSpring Charleston!

I am so excited to announce the launch of our groups for the fall semester. Groups launch week is starting Sunday, September 18th! NewSpring groups are an incredible way to have Christian community, learn the Bible together, serve together, and care for one another. I am praying for God to move in and through groups this semester in an awesome way and I hope that YOU will be a part of it! To search and sign-up for a group that is near you please go to: https://newspring.infellowship.com/GroupSearch

9/10/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY and the one before were interesting, to say the least. We looked at sexual immorality in the Church. Perry did a blog post this week that provides some great take-aways from the past two Sundays. Check it out... http://www.perrynoble.com/2011/09/07/seven-things-to-keep-in-mind-in-regards-to-sexual-sin/

My wife and I had our neighbors attend for the first time last Sunday. We have been inviting them for some time and to see them both walk in last Sunday made my month!

We also had a guy confess Jesus as Savior and Lord at the 11:15am! That never gets old!!

I am so looking forward to THIS SUNDAY and the following two weeks of this series. If you have not been able to make it, I hope you can get to the Charleston Campus this Sunday. If you have been inviting someone and they haven't made it, don't give up!

This week we will be in Ballroom B and KidSpring will be upstairs. KidSpring will be in a place we have never been before so be sure to follow the signs and look for the welcome flags for your best place to enter.

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

9/03/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY we continued the REVELATION series. We saw 4 more people confess Jesus as Lord and Savior!! That will never get OLD!

We also saw our largest number of volunteers serve last week. Thank you to everyone who makes Sunday happen. If you are not involved and you are an Owner of NewSpring Church something is not getting done. If you are not an Owner our next class is September 18th at 2:30pm. You can sign up here http://www.newspring.cc/nextsteps/commit/

THIS SUNDAY we will continue the REVELATION series and as Perry tweeted earlier today, "Can't WAIT for tomorrow as we talk about 'Sex In The Church Part Two!' Expecting/praying for salvation and freedom! BRING somebody!"

We will be in the PAC(Performing Arts Center)tomorrow. If you do not have kids the entrance off of Montague will get you to the closest parking.

Load-in is happening at 4am! Come join us if you would like. You will be home and back in bed by 6am!! Then you can come to the service, having already served. Load-out will happen immediately following the 11:15 service.

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

8/27/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY was simply,"WOW!!"
At all campuses we saw an incredible work done by the Holy Spirit. By the end of the day we saw 490 people come forward to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior! In Charleston we had 20 people come forward and 1 person get saved Sunday afternoon at Ownership class. That brings us to almost 150 decisions for Christ in our first seven months. That blows my mind! Thank you to everyone who stepped up and invited someone to church on Sunday. If the person you invited didn't come, DON'T GIVE UP! God never gave up on you!

THIS SUNDAY let's do the same thing we did last Sunday. My prayer is that what we saw last Sunday would never get old to us, but at the same time it would be "normal" for us to invite like we did last week!

Load-in is happening at 4am and we would love to have you join us. If you have time after the 11:15 service, please hang around for load-out.

This Sunday we are in Ballroom A & B! I look forward to the day where we need ALL three Ballrooms. We are making the "Holy City" truly holy one Sunday and life at a time!

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

8/25/2011

Serve One / Attend One

We have seen so much happen in the short 7 months we have been a NewSpring Campus. Over the past seven months many things have changed and gotten better. As Owners have bought into the value that SAVED PEOPLE SERVE PEOPLE, we have been able to see and do things we couldn't in our first few months. For that, I am so grateful!!!

Since there is always room for improvement, we are going to intentionally make a shift on our campus. In order to be able to serve the people attending our campus better as well as improve the spiritual health of those serving, I would like for our volunteers to begin to "SEVER ONE/ATTEND ONE"! For one service we are there to corporately worship and ask God to speak to us personally. For the other, our mindset is all about serving. I want you to buy into the core value that SAVED PEOPLE SERVE PEOPLE and we will have an opportunity for you to serve with whatever time you have available. However, a majority of our volunteers will have to SERVE ONE/ATTEND ONE in order to accommodate for our continued growth. By committing to this on Sunday mornings, it will help you to get the full experience of our worship service. It will also allow people who are attending the service to get the full experience of being served instead of having the majority of our volunteers already in the service.

Please begin to let us know if you are available to SERVE ONE/ATTEND ONE as soon as possible. This is going to help us in refining our Guest Services and in fully carrying out those volunteer responsibilities. I am excited for the community that this will create in our volunteer teams as well.

"If we get BETTER our customers will demand we get BIGGER"
- Truett Cathy, Founder of Chick-fil-A

8/20/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY we looked at the Church in Ephesus. We learned 3 things we need to value from the letter to that church. The thing I believe God was saying to me was to be more obsessed with REPENTANCE and not REPUTATION! That's HUGE! I hope you were there, and I hope that you showed up expecting to hear from God.

Sunday was a BIG day in the attendance category for us. We broke our launch Sunday attendance with 612 people. I celebrate that because each number represents a soul with eternity at stake!! However, God is not just GREAT and AMAZING because we had 612 people. He was GREAT and AMAZING before last Sunday and will continue to be so, no matter what. He is GREAT and AMAZING for just who He is and not only what He does! I don't know about you, but I've learned the hard way to remember that!!

THIS SUNDAY is going to be our BEST one yet! I'm not just saying that; I am believing that and I need you you to believe and pray that also. We have been praying and asking God who we need to invite and for Him to do what He wants to do this weekend. I am asking that we see 800 people show up to our Campus and that He would bring 80 people from death to life! That will not happen if we are not inviting people we know who need to know Jesus. I am praying specifically for my neighbors to come this weekend. We have invited them to church before, but we are not giving up. I am also praying for Sue who waited on me at a restaurant earlier this week. I invited her and I'm praying that she makes it.

There is still time. Who are you inviting?

We are meeting in Ballroom B and part of Ballroom C. Load-in will be at 4am. You should join us! We really do have a great time and for the last few weeks we've been done by 5:30am. So, you could still get home and catch a nap before church starts. If you can't come early, hang around after the 11:15 service to help load-out!

Ownership Class is also this Sunday at 2:30pm at the office. (2093 Executive Hall Road, Charleston, SC 29407.) If you want to know more about the church or are interested in joining, Ownership Class is where that can happen. See you there!

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

8/17/2011

NewSpring Charleston there is a lot going on....

Things you need to know!

1. FUSE STARTS TONIGHT!!!! (Wednesday August 17th)

2. SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!!
Here are a few things Perry has blogged or tweeted this week that you should know.
3. Ownership Class this Sunday!!!!
Sign up and get more information here... http://www.newspring.cc/nextsteps/commit/

Students see you at FUSE tonight! Everyone else keep inviting!

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

8/16/2011

WHO ARE YOU BRINGING WITH YOU SUNDAY?

One of our CORE values in Found People Find People! This Sunday August 21st we are asking you to do just that. We are going to present the Gospel and ask them to respond. I am praying that 80 people in Charleston will crossover from death to life! I am also in prayer, asking God each day to show me who I need to invite. Last year leading up to this same Sunday emphasis we did an Evangelism Seminar. We were not a campus at that point so many of you might know this is available to you. You might also have thoughts that it's just to hard to live out this CORE value and I know this will help with those thoughts as well.

CHECK IT OUT AND GET TO WORK!

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

8/13/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY was, from a numeric standpoint, our biggest to date in almost ever statistical category. We had our largest non-launch non-holiday attendance, largest number of volunteers, and largest number of kids in KidSpring!

All week I've been praying and thinking that if that's what we saw on August 7th, then I can't wait for the 21st. Don't forget to continue praying for people to invite. Yesterday I was on the phone with a guy in our church whose son passed away this week. We were reflecting on his son's memorial service and he said, "I've been able to invite a bunch of people for the 21st!" I pray that you are viewing your circumstances in the same light, as an opportunity to bring people closer to Jesus!

THIS SUNDAY we are continuing the series we started last week call REVELATION! If you missed last week you will want to go to www.newspring.cc and check it out.

We are in the Ballroom this week and KidSpring will be upstairs.

Don't forget Fuse starts this Wednesday! I'll post more info on this in the next couple of days. I am so excited for this Wednesday!

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!

8/06/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY was, in my opinion, the BEST service we have had at NewSpring Charleston. It was so great seeing the excitement in all the students and volunteers who went to the Gauntlet. Last Sunday sure didn't look like a church that doesn't have a youth group yet!

Speaking of that, we will be starting FUSE in Charleston August 17th at the NewSpring Charleston office. Stay tuned for a post specifically giving details and information about FUSE.

THIS SUNDAY we are starting a new series called REVELATION. I am so looking forward to diving into this book of the Bible and seeing what God has to say to each of us individually and collectively as a church body.

We will be in the PAC this Sunday for the worship service and KidSpring will be upstairs. We will be loading in at 4am.

Continue to be praying for the services on August 21st and who you need to invite. I am so PUMPED about how we will be doing the invitation on that Sunday!

Also, we have our next Ownership Class on the 21st at 2:30pm. We had 27 people join this past Thursday and already have close to 30 signed up for the 21st. God is laying the foundation for the Fall! GET READY, NEWSPRING CHARLESTON!!

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!!

7/30/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY we started a two week series called Stories. Our video team and Perry did an incredible job by intertwining a message with the stories of life change. As Perry says weekly, "THAT NEVER GETS OLD!" In fact, I believe if you show me a church that doesn't have any stories then you've got a church in decline and dying.

Sunday also proved to be another scratch-your-head-summer-Sunday at the Charleston campus. We had our third largest regular Sunday attendance, our highest KidSpring attendance, largest number of first-time visitors, and highest number of "first-serves" (Owners serving for the first time)!! WOW! That is not supposed to happen in the summer. I cannot wait to see what is in store. The BEST IS YET TO COME. God is so true to His Word. I have been praying and will continue to pray Ephesians 3:20-21 "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." He is answering that prayer. The key is verse 21. If we ever take the "glory" we will not see his power continue to work within us! That's really important!

We saw 3 people surrender their lives to Christ last Sunday as well. That's 114 since January 9th!! THAT NEVER GETS OLD!

THIS SUNDAY we will wrap up the series, Stories. I really love hearing stories of life change and how God is working in our church. I could hear or see one every week.

We will be in Ballroom A this week. So, follow the parking signs and look for the welcome flags for your closest entry point for KidSpring and the Ballroom.

We have Ownership Class this Thursday, August 4th at 6:30pm at the Charleston Office: 2093 Executive Hall Road, 29407. Click here for more information http://www.newspring.cc/nextsteps/commit/

Also, don't forget August 21st we are asking everyone to begin inviting people for that Sunday. Pray and ask that God would set up opportunities for you to invite someone that by God's grace can end up having a story like one of the stories we've been watching.

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!


7/20/2011

Night of Vision

ALL OWNERS OF NEWSPRING CHARLESTON:

You are invited to be a guest at the Night of Vision this Friday night, July 22nd from 6:30 to 8:30. Dinner will be provided as a part of the vision event on our campus. We would love to have you join us! There will be no childcare on Friday so that all volunteers can participate. We will be meeting in Ballroom C of the Charleston Area Convention Center.

The following is from Perry's blog this week:
"SO excited about the volunteer event THIS FRIDAY NIGHT!!! I’m BEGGING God to absolutely set us on FIRE that night! (If you want to read ahead and prepare for that evening then I would recommend reading John 2-4.) I cannot WAIT to announce the two new locations the Lord has led us to!!!"

Looking forward to seeing you there!

7/16/2011

LAST SUNDAY/ THIS SUNDAY

LAST SUNDAY we continued our On The Farm series and Perry answered some more of our most frequently asked questions. One of the questions he addressed was very pertinent to what we do in Charleston and that was regarding why we do multi-site the way we do it. I thought Perry did an incredible job of giving us some great statistical proof to back up what we feel is not simply great creative thinking, but the results of following divine direction. Every campus is growing, more people are watching on a screen than live, and the campus growing by the smallest percentage is the one at which Perry is physically present. These were points made to show that it's not about Perry (just like it's not about you and me)! It's all about Jesus!!!

For me personally, I love the way we do church. I love the role I get to play. I love being the Charleston Campus Pastor. Perry does an incredible job each week communicating God's truth, and I get to be more involved on the ground in the lives of our people. I love that part of my job. It is because someone took time to pour into me that I am where I am at today. I thank God that I get to daily try and do that for someone else as I lead this Campus.

You can watch last week's message here...http://www.newspring.cc/series/on-the-farm/

THIS SUNDAY we will wrap up the On the Farm series. I am so excited for what this final week of this series can mean for our campus going forward. My prayer is that this Sunday will be an impactful Sunday and will give us a foundation for what is going to be an incredible Fall! I believe we will look back at this week and say, "That was the week that helped get ___(BLANK)____started". Be sure you are here for this Sunday. Invite a friend, neighbor, coworker, or someone you meet today to church this weekend.

Load-in is happening at 4am on Sunday morning and Load-out will be immediately following the 11:15 service. We would love to have you show up early or hang around after to help!!

We have Ownership Class this Sunday, July 17th at 2:30pm. You can sign up and get more information here...http://www.newspring.cc/nextsteps/commit/

CAN'T WAIT FOR SUNDAY!!