My Trip to Lifechurch.tv

posted September 10, 2009 by Don Graffam |

White Bear Lake

Hey all,

Thanks for your grace with allowing me to head out of town for a great trip to Oklahoma to watch and learn from one of the leading churches in multi-site…Lifechurch. For those of you that have shorter attention spans (like myself) here’s a few bullets from the trip. I’d be happy to tell you more if you’d like:

Who – Your 3 faithful Campus Pastor’s – Jason Anderson, Steve Whicker and myself

When – We left early Saturday morning (Aug 29) and came back on Monday night (31^st).

Where – We stayed in Edmond, Oklahoma but visited 5 of their 14 sites.

Web – www.lifechurch.tv – check it out – it’s cool.

Size – The weekend we were there had just under 29,000 attenders.

Key takeaways – What a Campus Pastor should be doing during the weekend (HIGHLY relational), how to streamline purchases, technology and training so that each site doesn’t need to figure it out on its own, and a phrase they said often “How can we do the most with the least?” This church is efficient and focused on reaching people for Christ.

Points of interest – Yes – we did meet Craig Groeschel. After shaking his hand he “acted” like his phone was ringing. None of us heard it…fishy… Also, we spent an hour or so visiting the Oklahoma City Bombing site. Quite remarkable.

I’ll stop there with the ultra brief report, but before I show you some pix from the trip…this weekend is Fall Kick Off. As promised we have some exciting things up our sleeve. Some of the highlights include dinner served by Buca at 5:00 on Saturday, homemade brunch served at 10am on Sunday and something new we’re trying that will begin 3 minutes prior to our normal start time (be in your seats early!)

Enjoy a few pix from our trip and I’ll see you soon!