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Acts 29 Church Planting Notes on Eldership

Tadd Grandstaff is a church planter, blogger, and genuinely super guy.  Blogging from the Acts 29 conference, he shares some great notes on Church Elders.  It is worth the read and interaction.  Read it here.

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Flickr Church of God Buildings

All of these COG building photos were found on Flickr.  There were hundreds.  They are all very interesting.  They range from this beautiful little Cayman Island chapel to the impressive Tabernaculo de la Fe in Panama City.  If you have some COG related picks or graphics, you'd like to share, upload them to the Unoffical COG Flickr Group.

Iglesia de Dios - Curacao - Tabernaculo de la Fe - Panama City - Visalia COG - Fireworks - Church of God - Georgetown, Grand Cayman - Church of Godzilla - Jordon Cooper's photo of a COG in Sakatoon - Elk City COG w/ Rainbow - Elk City COG w/ Double Rainbow - Elk City COG w/ Snow - Old North Cleveland COG - Spring at Lee University Slides - National COG - Washington D.C. - COG in Indy General Assembly - COG - New Orleans - Lighthouse COG - Orrington, ME - Church of God in a Box

Bill Woodruf on the Burden of Leadership

While in college I was a part of a group that ministered at a nursing home in Cleveland, TN. We would go in and sing the "old hymns" and preach to the patients, taking time afterward to visit with them and hear them preach.  On one particular occasion I spoke with a lady who was especially excited to see college students."I live over by the college", she said.

As she began to describe her house, behind the college, around the corner from the elementary school, down the road from the big church, it slowly became clear to where she had once lived. The only problem is...

Read the entire article here.

Bill Woodruff is the Student Life Pastor at Covenant Church in Charlottesville, VA.

COG Blog Aggregator

Everything on the left sidebar pertains to COG Blogs.  A really cool addition to the directory is an aggregator of 5 COG Blogs with great content.  The blogs listed in the aggregator will rotate based on content and relevence to COG issues.  I actually wanted to add a couple blogs to the aggregators list but, there was a problem with the XML feed.  Check your feeds and make sure they are enabled.  Enjoy the aggregator.

New COG Blog Additions

Inroducing new COG Blog adds Troy Hamby, Jim Morrison, and Lee Roy Martin.

Secure Give Facilitates Culturally Current Giving Practices

Marty Baker's new giving kiosks from Secure Give have hit the motherload when it comes to free publicity.  Check out Charlie Gibson's World News segment on this culturally relevent giving tool.  Marty pastors Stevens Creek Community Church in Augusta, GA.  I can't believe Kevin Hendrix and Brad Abare have not yet picked this up over at CMS.

tagged: brad abare - kevin hendrick - secure give - giving kiosks - marty baker - church marketing sucks related posts:  NPR- holy start-up  -  Marty Baker's Giving Kiosk posted by travis johnson