Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 6:30PM, First Assembly in Lafayette, Indiana will embark on a new kind of large outreach at Christmastime! We’ll be hoping to gather together hundreds of family for a fun Christmas show experience with plenty of music, dance, skits, heaps of laughter, and giveaways. To pull this off, we need your involvement! We’d like to ask … Read More
The Real Thing–Sunday Series April 2012
Over the next two Sundays, we’ll be reflecting on the success of Coca-Cola to spread it’s product around the world to put its name in front of every pair of eyes, every day, everywhere and the command Jesus Christ has given the church to spread the Gospel to the whole world. How can it be that this delicious, brown, carbonated … Read More
GREAT START for The Huddle!
This afternoon was the first meeting for The Huddle, a new interdenominational men’s group that meets every Wednesday at 135 S. Earl Avenue in Lafayette, Indiana, a great meeting it was! A diverse group of 31 men from at least half a dozen area churches gathered for a free lunch and a talk titled “A Man and His Friends”. As … Read More
Remembering September 11, 2001
On Sunday, September 11, 2011, we’ll mark 10 years from the 9/11 attacks that took 3000 lives that day and burned their way into the American and global psyche. They also caused the launching of The War on Terror, implicating America in at least two wars and created numerous changes to life around the world. To commemorate the date at … Read More
Us & Them
A few weeks ago, my wife popped into a ministry here at our church and began talking to a man who had been here for a couple years. They started talking about how he and his wife had begun to volunteer in a church ministry recently. He made the comment that he felt like the church had moved away from an … Read More
Making Introductions
These are some thoughts about how our amazing church can become more and more effective at bringing people from the edge of our community in the core of the highly committed people who make First Assembly thrive as it does. Getting to know more people through introducing yourself to people you don’t know and through introducing them to your social … Read More
Independence Day Celebration SUCCESS
This past Sunday night’s Independence Day Celebration at First Assembly of God in Lafayette, Indiana was amazing! Beyond the thousands of people who showed up on our grounds, and the thousands more who crowded into the parking lots and streets around the church (creating the most intense traffic I’ve ever seen in Lafayette), the program, games, huge bouncy castles, fair … Read More
First Church of the Fireworks
This weekend at First Assembly of God in Lafayette, Indiana, we’ll have more people on our grounds and looking at our building and saying the name of our church than at any time during the year. That’s thanks to a tradition appreciated by our community by putting on a quality fireworks display, along with offering good food, fun for kids, … Read More
“The Huddle”–A Model for Reaching Men Here?
Yesterday, I had the pleasure to visit an inter-denominational lunchtime, hour-long, weekly gathering of about 150 men at the YMCA in Kokomo, Indiana. They usually distribute some kind of free lunch and eat it during a talk that is meaningful to men on some level. The format was simple: 12:05–announcements12:10-12:30–a speaker who delivers an address relevant to men12:30-12:50–discussion around tables12:50–table … Read More
Reflections from a Fast-Food Cashier
Last night, I was unable to go home and needed to grab something quick before my night moved forward. The place wasn’t busy, and I ordered my food, noticing that the young man taking my order, while youthful, had some interesting art on his arms and large holes in his lobes from gauges. We started talking. He just moved to … Read More