Archive for Gospel Community
A Picture of Gospel Community
Jeff Vanderstelt is the VP of Acts 29 and leads Soma Communities out in Tacoma Washington. Jeff’s teaching on Missional Communities has influenced and helped shape a lot of my own thinking on Gospel Communities. Take a look at this short video for a glimpse of what a community centered around the gospel can look like.
Gospel Community Details (Revised)
This past Sunday I announced some tweaks to the Gospel Community details regarding meeting days and times. Here are the official details of our GCs which start up this week:
Sorilla Gospel Community
- Focused on engaging artists, organizing and hosting the First Friday Art Walk stuff we do, etc.
- Meets on Wednesdays (changed from Thursdays) at 6pm at their home (1526 N 28th Street).
- First meeting will be held at The 815, this Wednesday, June 2nd at 6pm.
- The group will eat together. Please bring some cash this week to contribute to pizza.
- If you plan to be apart of this GC, please email Cheech Sorilla (cheech@2pillarsChurch.com) and let him know so that they can prepare and communicate accordingly.
Stahr Gospel Community
- Focused on engaging the music scene in downtown Lincoln. Ultimately organizing shows at The 815.
- Meets on Wednesdays at 6pm at Tom Luebbe’s condo (1401 O St. #301 – above Sandy’s).
- First meeting will be held at Mike and Kim Havenstein’s home (2809 Jackson Drive) this Wednesday, June 2nd at 6pm.
- The group will eat together. Please bring some this week cash to contribute to pizza.
- If you plan to be apart of this GC, please email Adam Stahr (adam@2pillarsChurch.com) and let him know so that they can prepare and communicate accordingly.
Bumgarner Gospel Community
- Focused on engaging the Near South neighborhood.
- Meets on Thursdays (changed from Wednesdays) at 6pm at our home (1980 Harwood Street) beginning this Thursday (June 3rd).
- The group will eat together. Please bring some cash this week to contribute to pizza.
- If you plan to be apart of this GC, please email Todd Bumgarner (todd@2pillarsChurch.com) and let him know so that they can prepare and communicate accordingly.
Gospel Communities
Beginning the first week of June, Gospel Communities will start up here at 2 Pillars Church. This post is for those that have been tracking with us and who will be a part of one of these communities. As part of the Commitment Phase, we’re asking everyone on the Launch Team to commit to being a part of a Gospel Community.
The way it will work:
- This Sunday – we’ll hand out the Launch Team Covenants.
- On the covenant, there will be a place for you to indicate which Gospel Community you want to be a part of.
- Bring the Launch Team Covenant back with you the last Sunday of May.
- We’ll organize the GCs based on that.
Now all you need to know is more information about the GCs themselves. We’ll be starting three GCs in June. Cheech and Ruth Sorilla will lead one, Adam and Kalee Stahr will lead one, and Meghan and I will lead one. Here are the details:
Sorilla Gospel Community
- Focused on engaging artists, organizing and hosting the First Friday Art Walk stuff we do, etc.
- Meets on Thursdays at 6pm at their home (roughly 28th and Holdredge).
- First meeting will be held at The 815, on Thursday, June 3rd at 6pm.
Stahr Gospel Community
- Focused on engaging the music scene in downtown Lincoln. Ultimately organizing shows at The 815.
- Meets on Wednesdays at 6pm somewhere downtown (still working out the final details on the “where”).
- First meeting will be held at TBD on Wednesday, June 2nd at 6pm.
Bumgarner Gospel Community
- Focused on engaging the Near South neighborhood.
- Meets on Wednesdays at 6pm at our home (roughly 20th and South).
- First meeting will be held at our home on Wednesday, June 2nd at 6pm.
Gospel Community Leader Training
Gospel Communities (GCs) will be at the heart of who we are as 2 Pillars Church. Everything we do will flow in, through, and out of our Gospel Communities. As such, the leaders of these Gospel Communities play a critical role in our health as a body. We need strong men to step up and take on these leadership roles thus making a commitment to seeing the Gospel go forth in Lincoln.
This Sunday we will begin our Gospel Community Leader Training Sessions. This first session will be more of a high-level view of our Gospel Communities – what they are, what it means to be a leader of one, what the expectations are, what the training will entail, as well as a look at our process (completing the training does not auto-fit you as a GC Leader).
If you’d like to know more, take a look at our Gospel Community Leader Training Overview which lays out some broad expectations and details and then show up this Sunday at 6pm at The 815. Note: the hope is to quickly move these training sessions to someone’s home as soon as we can identify a host. This first session will meet at The 815 out of convenience until we can get all of the details worked out.
