Project 2 Pillars » Building Blocks

Statement of Faith

toddbumgarner — Sat, 08 May 2010 12:04:48 +0000

2 Pillars Church is privileged to be a part of a church planting network called Acts 29 (www.acts29network.org) which has done an excellent job of applying orthodox, Reformation Christianity to the particular issues and questions of our day.

The Acts 29 doctrinal statement comprises the basic material for 2 Pillars Church’s Statement of Faith which now has a permanent home under the “Pages” section of this site.

Filed under: Building Blocks, Mission and Vision

March 28 Whiteboard Session Announcement

toddbumgarner — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:35:24 +0000

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We Won a Website

toddbumgarner — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:49:26 +0000

A while back I got an email or a DM or something where someone pointed me to this Website Giveaway contest. As a church planter, getting a full website up and running was on my near term radar and so I hopped over, plopped in my info in the blog comments and sent it off on its merry cyber-space way. I had also heard of ekklesia360 before and was intrigued by the prospect of having a website created by them.

A couple of days ago, I got an email from Tim Schraeder informing that I had one! The winner announcement then hit his blog yesterday here. The goal is to have something up and live by June. We’ll begin architecting and creating content for the new website in the next month or so.

Filed under: Building Blocks

An External Advisory Board

toddbumgarner — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:15:44 +0000

We believe that the biblical model of church government is that of a plurality of elders. We also believe in the local church functioning as a self-governing body. As a church plant, 2 Pillars Church was started with just one elder, Todd Bumgarner. It is our desire and our goal to move steadily, though not hastily, to a model of a plurality of three or more qualified local elders that have been called, identified, tested, trained and approved. Until that time, the eldership (initially, Todd Bumgarner) will be subject to the Advisory Board to provide accountability as well as counsel and encouragement.

The External Advisory Board for 2 Pillars Church consists of the following three men:

John Ryan, Lead Pastor of Summit in O’Fallon, Missiouri.
Bob Thune, Lead Pastor of Coram Deo in Omaha, Nebraska.
Doug Stevens, Executive Pastor at Core Community in Omaha, Nebraska.

To read more about our External Advisory Board, see our AB_Defined(20091029) document.

Filed under: Building Blocks, Leadership Development

Makeover The 815

toddbumgarner — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:31:54 +0000

We need your help. This Wednesday we are looking for folks to join us in making over The 815. This is a work night where we intend to do a lot of painting, building (walls to create a couple of office spaces), and cleaning. We’ll start at 6:30pm. You can stay as long or as little as you like/need to. We’ll provide all of the materials and tools, etc. We just need your man/woman power.

Filed under: Building Blocks

Church Planting and a Worship Pastor

toddbumgarner — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:25:56 +0000

What should a church planter look for in a worship pastor? Three worship pastors answer in the following three videos. Helpful stuff as it is some of the stuff that I’m processing through right now (HT: A29):

Posted in Building Blocks, Church Planting Resources

815 O Street

toddbumgarner — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:44:42 +0000

This past Saturday evening, I officially signed a lease for some gathering space at 815 O Street in downtown Lincoln. This space will serve as the initial gathering space for 2 Pillars Church.

We see this space as God’s sure hand of providence as we were not originally looking to rent until the May of 2010 timeframe. However, the location was perfect and the price was right so we jumped on it. We will occupy the lower level of this building on a full-time basis. The main level is currently serving as an underage dance club on Friday and Saturday nights (Club Red), the second floor is home to an ad agency (The Minnow Project), and the third floor is being renovated to create two condos.

Most recently, the main floor and lower level were occupied by a local music venue called Box Awesome. Back in the day, this same space was home to a locally famous bar called Sweep Left.

The space itself is 4030 square feet and should allow for enough room for us to fit out a couple of office spaces in addition to a worship space with a seating capacity of roughly 140 people. This space will thus serve us well until a day when we out-grow it.

The video below provides a little more of an idea of where the space is located. I have added annotations to the video, but you might have to change to full-screen to see them.

WARNING: The following video features stunts performed either by professionals or under the supervision of professionals. Accordingly, 2PC and the producers must insist that no one attempt to recreate or re-enact any stunt or activity performed in this video.

Posted in Building Blocks

2pillarschurch.com Now Up

toddbumgarner — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:43:13 +0000

Our temporary website is now up (2pillarschurch.com). Currently it is just a splash page containing our logo and links to the Project 2 Pillars Blog, the 2PC Facebook Fan Page (forthcoming…currently it points to my personal page), and the 2PC Twitter Feed. Thanks go out again to Jeff Nine at Studio Nine Creative for his help.

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The 2 Pillars Church Logo

toddbumgarner — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:41:33 +0000

The logo we landed on is the product of Jeff Nine at Studio Nine Creative out in Denver, Colorado. If you like what you see, send them some business. Here’s a few more shots of the logo he did up for us – super happy with Jeff’s work.

Jeff was great to work with, has a heart for church planting, and is extremely talented not just in graphic design but also in web stuff as well. You can get all of the contact info you need via the Studio Nine Creative Contact Page on their website.

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