Business Meeting Goodies

We had our monthly business meeting tonight and the leadership team all agreed on some basic things in terms of a few new things we are going to be doing. There is way too much to list here but we are adding three new ministries to the church. So here goes.

1. A Womens Marketplace ministry: So here is the deal. Martha is going to conduct a weekly brown bag luncheon for women. She'll be starting this may doing a weekly study. She is going to personally visit 50-100 businesses inviting all the women to come and enjoy this time of encouragement and fellowship.
2. Graceland services: Ok, I know you love the name as much as I do. Here is the deal. Real Life will do a Saturday night service every other month starting in June. Graceland services will focus much more attention on worship. Instead of doing four or five worship songs we'll do eight or ten. We'll also have time for communion, prayer, and fellowship by doing a potluck dinner afterwards. Graceland services will be one more avenue for us to not only connect with God and each other, they'll be a time when we can invite our friends and family to connect with God on a personal and more intimate level. Our prayer is that Graceland services will also be a place were ministry workers not just from our church but from other churches will be able to come and get refreshed and renewed to go back out and serve others.
3. Man Fun: Ok I know that sounds weird, or for some of you a little off. Here is the deal. We want to create a series of events that allow the guys in our church to have some real guy fun and hang out with other guys from church. Here is what we are going to do. We are going to host a Texas Hold Em tournament in June. We are going to go all out and provide prizes for the winners, do up some man food, and invite many manly men to come and have some fun. Each month we'll do something different for the guys to enjoy.
   

We have a ton of other things on the radar but this will get us started for now. I'd love to hear what you think!