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Friday, September 10th Church180 is hosting our first ever FAMJAM!

Our Family Pastor, Alex Miranda, says this about FAMJAM:

FamJam brings kids & parents together for a high- octane experience that rivals any family event. This 1 hour production uses music, dance, video, and a clubhouse of insanely funny characters that make it a blast for the entire family. FamJam will highlight a core virtue- RESPECT! Its fast- paced extreme fun with a purpose!

As a daddy, I can’t wait! My girls are excited and inviting their friends too! I love that! I love that my kids are excited about what the church is doing!

One of the funnier parts of FAMJAM is the introduction of the “Irish Rappers.” They made a special appearance at church yesterday.

These guys are indeed fierce warriors and are a great addition to the FAMJAM crew!

Thanks you two for being such a great part of FAMJAM!

Here’s the intro video for our teaching series, Awaken the Warrior.”

Church180 is getting ready to let lots of people know “what’s going on in there?!”

Today we have a 4×8 sign going up on a heavily traveled road right beside our church (India Hook road). It will change with every teaching series. Here’s what it looks like going up…

This sign will change every 3-5 weeks depending on the length of the teaching series and will let people know what’s going on inside.

Additionally, in two weeks we will be inviting 12,187 people 2x to be a part of our next teaching series, “Parenting Beyond Your Capacity.” This teaching series will start in conjunction with the launch of our second service!

We will be adding a service and changing our service times from 10 a.m. to 9:30 & 11 a.m. (I’ll be sharing more about the series and the service in upcoming blog posts).

We’re looking forward to this next phase of ministry and expect to continue to expand the influence of Jesus in Rock Hill and beyond!

(I’d also like to give a big shout out to the guys from Apex Marketing Solutions for the great job that they are doing!)

Yesterday, at a Volunteer Appreciation luncheon at Pilgrims Inn, Church180 was awarded the “Volunteer of the Year!”

Additionally, Mountain Lake Church was recognized and so was Dirk Theys (Dirk helped lead the work project on the roof at Pilgrims Inn).

Mountain Lake sent a team of 6 volunteers from Atlanta to Rock Hill to partner with us on this project. This project saved Pilgrims Inn close to $12,000! We provided the materials and the labor and today, because the roof no longer leaks, the 4 year old’s who learn under this roof are no longer displaced every time it rains!

Thanks to all of you here in Rock Hill and in Atlanta who made this happen!

I’m excited about the teaching series that we are kicking off this weekend.

We are headed into a busy, potentially high impact season of ministry and we know this… when you begin to expand the influence of Jesus, Satan gets aggressive.

A few things that are coming down the pike as we move into the fall season of ministry:

• We are launching a second service (9:30 & 11 p.m.) and doing a lot of marketing to let people know what’s going on.
• We are launching FAMJAM.
• We are launching a new semester of LIFE groups.
• Later in the fall we will be launching our student ministry (grades 6-12).
• We are planning some more community projects revolving around our community partners, Ebinport Elementary and Pilgrims Inn.
• We will be introducing some new World Care initiatives later in the year.
• We will be teaching on some pretty tough subjects over the next several months.

If these things go as we pray and expect that they will, we will be expanding the influence of Jesus in a pretty significant manner… and you know our enemy won’t be dormant.

To equip ourselves, we are taking 3 weeks to unpack the soul and equipment of a warrior and call everyone to be just that… a warrior!

On Tuesday our community partner Ebinport Elementary had a ribbon cutting ceremony for the “Eagle’s Nest Cafe”… their newly renovated cafeteria.

(Click here to read the story and watch the news clip).

This new cafeteria is the result of two churches (Church180 and Mountain Lake Church), a local business and a local designer (both the business owner and the designer attend Church180) coming together to do what Jesus would do.

Last month our two churches partnered together to wipe out two big projects: a new roof on Pilgrims Inn (a homeless shelter for women and children) and a renovation of the Ebinport Elementary School cafeteria. (click here to watch a video of the work that was done.)

Here are some pictures from yesterday’s ceremony:

Principle Goodwin introduced me and asked me to talk about how this project took place.

I was proud to talk about Taft Floyd and Jerry Hyatt (co-owners of Apex Marketing Solutions) and how they donated the labor for this project… almost 300 total hours! Taft plays the drums at Church180 and is doing an amazing job of growing a business in this crazy economy! I’m proud of these guys!

I was also able to introduce Alex and Angela Miranda (Alex is the Family Pastor at Church180). These two, along with a team of volunteers, have been putting in LONG hours helping Ebinport get ready to launch their new school year! Alex actually set up all of the computers in the school this year because they had no one to do it due to budget cuts!

Both Church180 and Apex Marketing Solutions were awarded plaques of appreciation from the PTO (the president of the PTO attends Church180 too!)

And finally there was the ribbon cutting!

Hundreds of children will enjoy the Eagle’s Nest Cafe because a handful of people acted like Jesus and did what He would have done!

Way to go guys!