I love reading Top 10 Lists @ the end of the year (best songs, best movies, best athletes, etc.)!
Well, Courageous Church is almost one year old and I wanted to get in on the fun and create a top ten list of my favorite Courageous Church moments in 2009! Over the course of the next week I will be sharing them here on the blog! Here are the first two!
#10: Power of One @ Morehouse College! (March 30, 2009)
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That was an amazing night! Our church was just about three months old and most of us hardly knew each other, but we all came together when the college asked us to host a service that would really connect with students. With a guest appearance by Israel Houghton, spoken word, graffiti artists, breakers, rappers, and a message by yours truly we really reached students and helped build our church into a more cohesive team in the process. More students attended the service we hosted than any service hosted there the entire year!
Because of the success we had there, Morehouse has invited us to the campus to partner with them for MLK Day next month! Details coming soon!
#9 Launching FREE Breakfast (March 8, 2009)
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Free breakfast has been a major hit for our church! Every Sunday morning since March we have served a huge free breakfast to everybody and anybody that wants it. From our volunteers, to visitors, to lawyers, to the chronically homeless we have served thousands of hot meals on Sunday mornings.
We pretty much scrapped our marketing budget and decided to use what we would spend on marketing on this meal. It is great for our volunteers because they are there all morning. It is great for families that have such a hard time fixing a healthy breakfast on Sunday. It is great for our community because people sit down and eat with one another. It is great for hungry people that really need the meal.
In so many ways, free breakfast is now a part of our brand and I love it…one of the best decisions we made this year!