Lift Schedule

Details are coming together for Lift, and our team is getting more and more excited by the day!  People from Greenwood to Summerville or planning on making the trek for this Saturday worship training session, and we could not be more humbled to partner with others to lead churches in worship. I wanted to provide you with the schedule so …

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Platform Ministry Can Never Replace Relational Ministry

Platform ministry can never replace relational ministry. This week’s worship training consists of the worship value: availability – leading with presence. When people are gifted in the arts, oftentimes, they are put on stage to perform ministry.  While time on the stage may be an outlet for ministry, oftentimes, the time off the stage validates the ministry. Someone can get …

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Book of the Week: 11 Innovations in the Local Church

This week’s book of the week is 11 Innovations in the Local Church written by the uber-talented team of Elmer Towns, Ed Stetzer, and Warren Bird.  Each chapter focuses on different types of innovative churches.  This book contains great stories of how Jesus is using some pasotrs and churches to do some incredible things in this country for Christ. This …

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Cooperative Program

Most Southern Baptist churches give a percentage of their offerings to the Cooperative Program. Established in 1924, Southern Baptist churches decided to collaborate their financial resources in order to bring about more Kingdom impact. This financial program funds missionary salaries, church plants, seminary training, gospel publications, Bible translations, and so much more. As our passion increases to see the Kingdom …

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