24/7 Church
This is the kind of church I'd love to have. Church Marketing Sucks: 24/7 Church
So...what are we waiting for?
posted by Marc A. Pitman, CFCC @ 5/26/2006 10:50:00 AM
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Pursuing Passion
My blog is dedicated to the turning point in the Parable of the Lost Son, "when he came to his senses..." (Luke 15:17). For me, pursuing passion is a journey of coming to my senses...of me "waking up and smelling the coffee."
This blog is an incomplete chronicle of that journey. Here are my thoughts on life, simplicity, personal productivity, the Kingdom of God, and...coffee.
Friday, May 26, 2006
So...what are we waiting for?
About Me
- Name: Marc A. Pitman, CFCC
- Location: Waterville, Maine, United States
Marc A. Pitman is an internationally recognized fundraising trainer and the author of Ask Without Fear!. His website FundraisingCoach.com, a website dedicated to practical ideas for fundraising more effectively.
Marc's enthusiasm for fundraising has caught the attention of such organizations as Reuters, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. His lively presentations at conferences & fundraising seminars get him invited to organizations like Blackbaud's Conferences for Nonprofits, Habitat for Humanity Int’l, the NEAHP, & AFP.
His experience also includes being a former Vineyard church planter, a campaign manager for a gubernatorial campaign, and a founder of 501 Mission Place. He is the husband to his best friend, & father of 3 amazing kids. And if you see him drive by, he’ll probably be singing 80’s tunes loud enough to embarrass his family.
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Marc A. Pitman is the pastor of the Vineyard Church of Waterville and the Director of the Inland Foundation for Inland Hospital. An expert in helping people identify their natural abilities, he's committed to providing nonprofit leaders with down-to-earth information that decreases stress and puts the fun back into life!
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4 Comments:
I accidentally erased something longer and don't have the umph to repost...
In my finer moments I realize that I am to provide that "informal" and "readily accessible" place where God can be found, not (as I often think) by way of some ministry or building, but rather by way of my own person. It is through relationships to members of the Body of Christ, the Community of Prayerful Love, that people should connect to God.
I am often guilty of believing and living differently, yet...
God provides access to himself not through a place, but rather through a people!
I have been stirred by Greg Ogden's Unfinished Business; we see church as the place where we go to be served by someone who is paid to service us, God sees the Church as the people who (by way of the indwelling Spirit) equip, exhort, and empower each other to serve and save the world.
What a great comment on the Unfinished Business!
I think those of us who are planting churches must be incredibly blessed to be able to shape many of these expectations!
interesting 24/7 thing there...
is anyone up at 2:00am in Waterville?
Oh yeah...I'm in Maine...
It's hard to find a decent cup of coffee after 8 p.m.! (Unless you consider Dunkin' Donuts decent. *grin*)
Guess the 24 hour thing may have to be for a time in the future.
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