Online Church Launches New Platform This Week!
GCC will be launching a new platform this week as we've partnered with MediaSocial. Some cool highlights include:
- Facebook log-in to immediate connect with others if you like in the service
- Chat with others before/during the service
- Easy to share Facebook/Twitter links to invite others
- Email notes of the service to yourself
- We'll have the ability to have scheduled programming all week long, multiple service options, other online hosted and non-hosted events, and more unique, quality content
- In the future, we'll have the ability to run "Live" events through this site
- Join us Sunday's at 12:00, 6:30, or 8:30 EST to connect with others all over the world!
Here is a little peek at the new site:
Raising the B.A.R. Online
Over the next several weeks, we are going to be rolling out the vision for the next 5 years at GCC... What does that
mean for you and me, the online community? Here's what I'm jazzed about:
- We are launching 2000 new churches in all shapes and sizes- That's going to be in homes, coffee houses, businesses, dorm rooms, and any other imaginable venue and location on the globe!
- We will be training leaders on how to best impact their communities from Indiana to California, from Germany to India... One leader with a few friends can ignite change in your city...
- We will continue to push the edges of technology to have great content available to you- through as many means possible (Computer, IPAD, phone, TV, you name it)- so you can best bring the hope of Christ right where you live and with the people you do life with...
- We will be more connected than ever as we push our community online through various social media outlets and portals- we'll be able to do online coaching, share and collaborate on strategies that are working in other locations, and more...
- We will be One, united community under the banner of Christ. We will celebrate what's happening across the globe, we will share resources, we will be "for" each other, as we see lives changed through Christ everywhere!
Whether in Granger, Lansing, Orlando, or Munich- we get to do this together. Many more details will be rolling out over this next month or two- this is our time!
Picture This
The problem with conventional wisdom is that sometimes, it’s just the comfortable thing to do. And often the comfortable thing to do, is the very wrong thing to do. What would it take to stir our imagination, ignite hope and motivate individual change towards a shared, un-common good?
Picture all the things around you that deserve a different outcome. There are difficult questions to be asked and dearly held assumptions to be challenged, but if we raise the bar…the rest of our days can be the best of our days.
Want to reach 1.5 billion people?
For the past several months, we've stepped out into a new frontier of Online Church by offering our three services on Sunday but equally important asking the question, "how do we best serve people all over the group with an Online Church strategy that can add value to people all week long?" It's bigger than Sunday's and has a potential audience of any of the 1.5 billion people connected to the internet.
So what's the opportunity? Here are some of the many roles people can play and are currently playing on the Online Church team:
- Engage in services. Engage with people during the services, help answer questions, pray, and help people take their next step via the chat room.
- Make it viral. Are you engaged in Twitter/Facebook and online already? Spread the word by getting links about the services, opportunities, videos, and more online. This is simply being part of getting the exposure and word out. We can share links and information with you weekly to simply get out to the networks you already have!
- Web skills. Got web skills? Programming, WordPress, blogging, layout, design? If we dream it, we could do it.
- Video gurus. Or simply, you'd like to assist in making YouTube style videos, video editing, man on the street, and be part of creating web videos to get out the masses...
- Entrepreneurs. That's right, with new frontiers come opportunities to do the unique, reach a new audience, and more... Online groups? Web sites created to integrate real community change? International launches of online church? We all need a vision bigger than ourselves!
- Want more information? Have questions? Please contact me (Mark Meyer) at mmeyer@gccwired.com, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/maximeyer, or Twitter http://twitter.com/markmeyer.
We have an incredible opportunity to love and reach people in ways that weren't possible just a few years ago, what do you say? Let's get it done!
Granger Notes 101
GCC attendees:
How many of you use the Granger Notes? Show of hands.... anyone? Okay- you there.. one in the back.. couple on the left. Got it.
I have to admit, my learning style involves a need to write things down. My Bible uses all four colors of highlighter. It has scribbles, notes, references all written inside. It is my textbook for living, so you should take some notes, right?
The Granger Notes are provided for the in house audience a few different ways. If you show up in person, the bulletin contains them. If you use your phone, the GCC YouVersion reader lists them for you, and if you do church online, then they are at the bottom margin when the Auditorium is open as we are live.
But what to do with them?
I find they are a fantastic way to go back and refresh yourself on what the message discussed every week. Not to say I am poring over them, but just as you don't eat just once a week, you also may feel a need to continue your spiritual feeding through the week. A quick review. Maybe a refresher of a particular key verse to share with a friend or coworker.
The Granger Notes let you do just that. When the Online Campus is active, simply click on the tab, type in the notes as the series progresses...and get this- you can print them out right there in the tab! What a great resource to help you get organized and interact rather than staring at the monitor.
Give it a try and see if it doesn't help you out too!
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