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The Un-Formula: Blogger, Dan Rutty

Posted on: Sunday, May 11th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

A few weeks back pastor Rob asked me to blog about how I was able to build a worship team to 6 very talented leaders, over 30 unbelievable musicians and singers, and a great sound team.  While other churches are paying quite well for their worship experience, our worship leaders give that up, to serve […]

Managing Multi-sites (Mike Cruser - Creative Arts Pastor)

Posted on: Monday, April 7th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

The trend toward video campuses is growing and seems to be part of church strategy for years to come. We took our first crack at a video campus when Southbrook opened it’s first “video venue” over two years ago. We had one thing going for us…the new video venue was going to be […]

Over 1100 saved last year…now what?!

Posted on: Thursday, March 27th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

The first reactions are usually positive: “Wow!  That is simply amazing!”  “That’s more than most churches see in 100 years!”  “God is really moving over there!”  Then the skeptics and the cynics show up: “You’re making it too easy.”  “Who’s going to disciple all those people?”  “There’s no way that many people really meant it.”
 
When […]

1st Impressions

Posted on: Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

Part II,   Visioncasting and growing.
 
I mentioned in Part I (read it here) that we already had about 35 Greeters and Ushers.  What I didn’t  mention was that we actually had about 70 Greeters and Ushers in a 2-3 month rotating schedule, but… only about 35 of them would actually show up  for their assigned serve […]

Let’s get this thing planted!

Posted on: Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

I’ve been muling this over for quite some time now. You see, over the years a lot of church planters and their teams have come to us at Southbrook Church and asked for time, insights, advice, support, etc. I have a heart for everyone of them, but at times I feel overwhelmed. We all do. […]