I have come up with a list of 8 mistakes I have made during the first 6 months of church planting in Chicago. I am sure there are more, but this is what I am aware of so far.
1) Public vs Private Venue
Our goal is to gather 50 people into our core group before we do a BIG launch. We are actually not using monthly preview services as the sole strategy to gather a launch team. We'll use previews but for a different reason.
For the first 6 months we were gathering in a home environment....
Church Plants in Chicago New Web Site Check it out! Our brand new Chicago church web site to help new people to connect with us:
DestinationChurch.org
We have a number of cool things on the new site. Firstly, visitors can take a short survey and have the chance to win 0 of meat for a cook out. We are simply trying to encourage community, and serve the people of the city by stimulating deeper connectedness. If you know anyone in Chicago, please forward the web site link to them and encourage them to take the survey. I know some of you reading this will think, oh,...
How To Choose A Church Name In my last post,
119 Cool Church Names, I explained my philosophy for selecting a church name. This last Sunday I announced the name to our core group. We surveyed Christians and unchurched people to find a name that would be attractive and acceptable to both. We wanted a one word name with the word "church" following it, and we wanted something original, hard to do these days.
I had a number of people ask their friends which church they would be more likely to attend if they were invited by a friend or saw an advertisement. The...
Matt completed a CPT internship in early 2009 and is currently planting Destination Church in Chicago, one of the top 100 cities in the US. Matt was born in Brighton, England and came to Kansas City, MO in 2004 to marry his wife Heather. Matt and Heather have two sons, Jones and Macrae.