Christmas Offering 2014

Robby BradfordAfrica, Christmas, Christmas Offering, Church life, church planting, First Assembly Community Ministries, global church, missions, unreached people groupsLeave a Comment

Each December since 2012, we have conducted a special offering in the middle of December called the “Christmas Offering” where we have focused on a number of items both internally and externally.  2014 is no exception!  We will be receiving this offering on Sunday, December 14! This year’s goals are fairly straightforward.  With a total of $65,000, we will be … Read More

The Online Church We’re Building

Robby BradfordChurch life, church planting, First Assembly Community Ministries, First Assembly of God Lafayette, mission, missions, multi-site churchesLeave a Comment

Delivering church services is happening in a progressive, tech-savvy, unexpected way, and we’re in on it.  A while back, we started livestreaming our church services online.  At first there were 20 or 30 people. In December, we added three hi-def cameras and a number of other technological advances to make it possible to deliver a live program of our services … Read More

First Assembly en Espanol

Robby Bradfordchurch growth, Church life, church planting, discipleship, evangelism, First Assembly Community Ministries, First Assembly of God Lafayette, hispanic, latinos, multi-site churches, outreach, SpanishLeave a Comment

Starting tonight–at 6:30PM in our sanctuary, we’ll start offering a worship service that will be conducted in Spanish!  The Spanish-speaking portion of our community and our church has been growing, and this is a timely thing we can offer to begin reaching out.  First Assembly will now have an expression of itself in Spanish.  I can’t wait. The plan for … Read More