children's festival @ ginghamsburg

one of our recent events/décor projects was the ginghamsburg children’s festival~blessing of the backpacks that took place on the lawn this past sunday. over 400 backpacks were blessed by our lay pastors to send our kids off to school with God’s protection and direction – all the while inflatables, walking tacos, pizza, games, contests and a climbing wall held great attraction for the families. this outreach event featured our individual ministry areas each sponsoring a portion of the festival, deploying over 130 servants beautifully pulling off what one team alone could never do. what a great idea – what great kids – what a great God!!!

redesigning worship...again!

these last two weeks have been a blur - two full-day retreats with our worship design team partnering to dream news ways to keep it real in our eight worship celebrations each week. we've been at this teamwork nearly 15 years but every good system deserves a tweak now and then. ginghamsburg encompasses two campuses, several rotating weekend pastor/speakers and a full crew of servants poised to step on board and change the world. these are exciting times!

august is normally our servant series month - time to affirm "old" servants and recruit new in order to deploy the mission of jesus as we know it in 2009. mike slaughter detailed this important principle of renewal in his book, "spiritual entreprenuers" back in the late 80s. now, more than ever as each of us search for our own purpose and significance, the Great CEO calls us to "grab a towel" and start washing the feet of the world- "Church Is A Verb!" check out your best place to serve @ www.ginghamsburg.org/serve. and if you're so inclined, we'd love to have you in worship/arts!