FusionLife

Being my first week on staff for a 6 month old church plant is great. I’m loving it! It is kind of funny to be living out what I have been reading for the better part of a year on other church planter’s blogs about office space and issues that arise daily that you have to deal with. Like Gary Lamb’s office troubles over the last year, there are three of us in one office inside a insurance office that is owned my a guy that is apart of Beachside. There are good and bad parts. Its fun to joke around and not have to go to someone’s office to bounce ideas off of them. In my last ministry my first office was all in the farthest away part of our building total away from the rest of the staff and printer and copier. And being a part of an established church with their own facility you don’t have to deal with certain things, but meeting in an elementry school you have to think different about how you word or the things that you do and publicize. This weekend we are starting a series call Desperate Sex Lives and sent out some 5,000 postcards with the title in big letters on the front and the name and address of the elementry school on the back for directions to our gathering. Well alot of people aren’t happen with the postcard and have call the main campus of Tomoka Christian Churhc and the school to let their unhappiness be know and we are having to do damage control. Poor Robbie was on the phone most of the morning with different people and is meeting with the principle today to let them know we want to take all the heat of them and let them know we have put disclaimers on the website that neither the school or the school board have anything to do with our message content. You learn as you go. It’s definatly a message series that needs to be heard so we aren’t backing down but we will think more about the ramifications of messge series and publicity while we are meeting in the school (hopefully only through June or July).