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From Dickson To Honduras

July 12, 2008 in Church Planting, Cross Point Church, God, Leadership, Missions, Multi Campus, Religion with 9 Comments

Last week a group of seven from our Cross Point Dickson campus visited Honduras: Walter Stephens, David Faulks, David Ford, Millie Ham, Cindy Pulse, Sara Stephens, and Erin Stephens.

The group was on a medical mission trip where they dispensed about $5000 worth of medicine. They also saw over 1,000 different patients!

Here are a few pictures they took. For more details, you can CLICK HERE and read Chad Robert’s blog, he’s the Dickson campus pastor.

Cross Point Campuses Partner

June 13, 2008 in Church Planting, Cross Point Church, God, Leadership, Missions, Multi Campus with 5 Comments

I’m so proud of the mission trip Ryan Bult led this past weekend. Ryan took a Cross Point missions team that consisted of people from both the Nashville and Dickson campuses. This is the first time both campuses have partnered together to serve and it was awesome. Further proof that Cross Point is ONE CHURCH that happens to meet in two locations.

These individuals took off for a weekend mission trip to Wheelright, KY. While there, they helped serve some local families by doing home renovations and making improvements to the ministry center there.

I’m so proud of both campuses for getting out there and serving in this way!

Wind Beneath My Wings

May 5, 2008 in Church Leadership, Cross Point Church, Friends, God, Leadership, Multi Campus, Religion, Staff, Vision with 4 Comments

Okay, so the title may be a little over dramatic. Give me a break, it’s Sunday night and I’m loopy. Tonight I’m so thankful for the incredible team of people (staff and volunteers) I serve with at Cross Point in both Nashville and Dickson.

I am totally aware that I get way too much credit for many of the things that happen at Cross Point. I love what I do and the reason I get to focus on what I love is because I’m surrounded by such an awesome team.

I’m a better pastor because..

  • George keeps a calm spirit when things are chaotic
  • Pat is developing a first class spiritual formation program for our kids
  • Jenni sharpens my leadership gifts
  • Jarrod leads me in worship that draws me closer to God
  • Matt inspires me with creativity
  • Chad does such a great job pastoring our Dickson Campus
  • Brian (along with our other elders) holds me accountable

I’m blessed to serve along side these guys (and many others) here at Cross Point who help this community become more radically devoted to Christ, irrevocably committed to one another, and relentlessly dedicated to reaching the lost.

Thank You!

March 24, 2008 in Cross Point Church, Multi Campus with 12 Comments

C.P. Worship on Easter

I just wanted to take some time this morning to thank the hundreds of volunteers who made this Easter weekend so amazing at our two Cross Point campuses.

It was a weekend that thousands of people will never forget. I was moved over and over again as I watched God work in you and through you. So for investing in kids, acting in KidStuff, handing out programs, making coffee, leading in worship, programming lights, working with multi-media, parking cars, and all the other things that you did to create incredible environments this weekend…THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.

Here is just one of the many e-mails that I’m going through this morning that point to the eternal impact you made this weekend.

Hi Pete,

I have to tell you that this morning was one of the most amazing of my life. I decided to come to the 9:00 am service today because I am greeting tonight. I wanted to experience my first Easter service in it’s entirety. I left today speechless and once again forever changed.

The power, the passion, the mere force of what I felt today has me asking myself and questioning as I never have before.

Could I let Christ into my life? Am I capable? I think the answer is yes.
I find myself wanting more and more of this new found love.

I had never heard the term “vision casting” before reading your blog. Since that time, I have been reading about it and I am fascinated by it. Today I saw it and felt it. It shook my spirit and soul.

I confess to you that I have never had the inclination or the drive to want the knowledge of religion on any level because of the way it has been presented to me in my life. Today I want to breathe it in and know more.

Before today, Easter was just a word or a reason to search with children for decorated eggs. Today Easter has depth and meaning that will cause a celebration in my mind

Thank you so much for today and for casting your vision towards me.

And that is why we do what we do! Tell me how this Easter impacted you?

Pete

A Beautiful Mess

March 19, 2008 in Cross Point Church, Multi Campus with 4 Comments

easter

On Monday things started to get crazy here at the Cross Point Nashville campus. Lots of equipment, lights, and other things I don’t understand. It’s going to look and sound amazing!

auditorium

truck

stage

I have been talking with Pastor Chad about things at the Cross Point Dickson campus. They are getting fired up about celebrating their first Easter together. They face unique challenges meeting in the high school, but I know it will prove to be a Easter those of you in Dickson will not want to miss.

I hope you have been praying about who you are going to invite this weekend. If you have someone in mind, let me know so I can join you in praying for them.

To send an e-invite for the Cross Point Nashville campus CLICK HERE.

To send an e-invite for the Cross Point Dickson campus CLICK HERE.

Why I love Multi-Sites

February 17, 2008 in Cross Point Church, Leadership, Multi Campus with 5 Comments

Today I got the opportunity to visit Cross Point Dickson, the first multi-site campus of Cross Point Church. I have to admit, I was blown away. Pastor Chad and his team are doing an amazing job. They’re only 6 weeks old and God is doing some incredible things. On my way home I was thinking about why I love the multi-campus model so much.

  • It allows a church to start with great momentum. Every church planter knows this is difficult. Cross Point Dickson started with an incredible core group of around 100 and has averaged over 350 attenders since its launch.
  • It allows more people to start strategially serving. Today in Dickson I saw people serving in different capacities whom I had never seen serving at Cross Point Nashville. Maybe they didn’t serve before because they were driving forty-five minutes just to get to church. Maybe, they thought we had all the bases already covered. But either way they are now using their God given spiritual gifts for the glory of God.
  • It allows people living in the Dickson area to effectively reach out to their neighbors, co-workers, and family. While there were some willing to drive forty-five minutes away to try a church, most were not. Now when someone living in the Dickson area wants to invite someone to church with them they can do it without the geographic barrier.
  • It allows the church to focus more on ministering to people. Cross Point Dickson has the benefit of using systems that have been created by Cross Point Nashville. These systems effect everything from the way the service runs to how specific ministries are set-up. The end result is this allows Cross Point Dickson to focus more on people and less on systems.

Believe me, I could go on and on, but I thought I would include a few pics from my visit this morning. Cross Point Dickson, I am very proud of you guys and the way you are allowing God to form a transformational community. 

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Signs 

 Kidz World

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Video Teaching  

Worship from balcony

If your a part of a multi-campus church somewhere I would love to hear how and why you do it. Will you take a second and share with us how it’s going? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keeping Up

January 29, 2008 in Cross Point Church, Multi Campus with 1 Comment

One of the greatest challenges of being part of a fast growing church like Cross Point is keeping up with what’s going on. It seems as if things are happening at break neck speeds. It’s one of the reasons I have decided to blog. I want to do a better job this year of communicating to you the great things that God is doing. Here are two other blogs which will help you keep up as well.

  •  Jenni Catron, our executive director, just posted a great recap of this past weekend. Click here to read!
  • Chad Roberts, our Dickson campus pastor, will keep you up to date with what’s happening just West of here. One thing Chad won’t tell you is that they have been averaging over 350 people their first three weeks. Wow! God is up to something there. Click here to read 

Ok, ok, one last thing. Here’s an e-mail I just received from a new attender. We would all do well to follow God prompts like this!

I really enjoyed Sunday & it inspired me to make changes. I do get involved, but I find it hard to be a leader. I was thinking & praying about what I could do differently & on Monday morning it came to me. Everyday at work I read a short devotional & it starts my day off right. I thought that maybe a few others in the office might like to do this too. I passed out a flier with an example of what the devotion would be & asked people to come & sign up if they would like me to place one in their office each day. Almost the entire office of 60 people signed up.  It is some extra work that I have to do now, but so many have already come up & told me how much that means to them or that the devotion said exactly what they needed to hear that day.  I know that this may be a small step toward leadership, but I think its a good start! God Bless ~ Hanna Dozier 

What’s God prompting you to do? 

 

 

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