Want to make somebody smile?

Come make a difference in the lives of others through a simple act of christian kindness.

Join us this Saturday for a Gift Wrapping outreach in front of Walmart on Fleming Island (220 and 17). The outreach is from 10am-2pm so show up any time between 9:30am-12:00pm and stay as long as you like.

Where your red serve the world shirt. If you don’t have one we will give one to you!

I hope to see you there as Journey continues to serve the world around us with the hope that many people will come to know Jesus as their savior!

Click here to check out pictures of this past weekends outreaches.

This weekend we targeted the Eagle Harbor area with what I beliee was some of our best Simple Act of Christian Kindness Outreaches to date. THe plan actually started a number of weeks ago as we prayed and dreamed about what would draw people out of their homes to a place where we might be able to connect with them as a church and how can we let this neighborhood know we even exist as a church.

We brainstorme and decided to use the movie the GRINCH as a way to invite people to a christmas party more specifically – Free Pictures with the Grinch. So we had some incredible flyers made up.

We had people pray over them and manually distribute close to 3000 to the neighboorhood. We also encouraged congregants to invite their friends. It turned out to be an awesome evening with hundreds in attendance and well over 50 percent of the people were people from the community that we had never met before.

THere was a bonfire, christmas Caroling, even the grinch movie playing on a screen. A good time was had by all and we gave out over 30 1st time visitors gifts to folks as a way of saying thank you for coming out and hanging out with us. A few of them showed up at church on Saturday night. What a win.

To cap things of we had about 30 folks from the church participate by having 2 floats in the Eagle Harbor CHristmas Parade.

This Friday Night December 7th @ 7pm Journey Church is hosting what we hope will be a huge Christmas Party at Lick Skillet in Eagle Harbor. Everyone is invited and encouraged to bring your friends. This is our Church Christmas Party in addition to an outreach to Eagle Harbor and the surrounding neighborhoods.

Bring your favorite dessert and enjoy a night of caroling, bon fire, the Grinch Movie on the side of the wall, and free pictures with the Grinch!

Invite a friend using the churches new eVite feature.  Click Here to send an eVite to a friend.

For directions to lick skillet: http://www.eagleharboronline.com/files/pages/community/howtofindeagleharbor/eagleharbormap/EH_Spring_2006.jpg

View full sized invite: http://journeychurch.org/portals/0/evite/ChristmasPartyPreview.html

Well, we pulled off our largest Simple Act of Christian Kindness ever in the history of Celebration Church.!

The dream that I and many others had of hosting a massive Christian alternative to halloween became a reality this past Tuesday Night as some 5000-6000+ people came to the event that we held at the Orange Park Town Hall park.

Full pictures are in the photo album on the right side of my blog and I will upload a cool video later.

The event was even more awesome because 6 churches came together to pull it off in conjunction with a number of area businesses. To check out the web site visit www.familyfunfest.info .

In essence, I once again stand in awe of God and his goodness. The night was awesome everyone had fun volunteers and participants alike. We featured the new Overflow band and they did a great job by adding a continuous flow of worship throughout the night.

I won’t start thanking people because I would never be able to finish, but we love everyone who helped make the event possible.

I am off to Dallas to learn more about multi-site. More posts to follow.