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ARVO CHURCH PUBLIC LAUNCH

I’M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE PUBLIC LAUNCH OF ARVO CHURCH NARRABEEN!! IT’S THIS SUNDAY (10TH MARCH 2013) FROM 4PM AT ST FAITH’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, CLARKE STREET NARRABEEN.
WWW.ARVOCHURCH.COM // FACEBOOK EVENT // ALL WELCOME!

COME!

12 months ago St Faith’s Anglican Church Narrabeen began a new Sunday afternoon church. It was pioneered under the leadership of Ben Molyneux with a core team of less than 10 adults. It has grown to about 40 adults each week. I transitioned into the leadership of this new community at the end of 2012.

Over the last few months as Arvo Church has continued to grow we have felt that it would be good to “go public”. What will change? Not much. We’ll keep doing the same things. But we’re convinced that we have the best possible reason to gather. Jesus loves us and Jesus has gathered us through his death and resurrection. So we want to make some noise to let people know about our Him!

Arvo Church will grow naturally as Gen Y have kids and as young professionals keep moving into the area. But we are keen to see it grow by mission as well. We are seeking to reach out to our local community: neighbours, colleagues, surf life saving clubs, schools, cafes and markets.

In January we did a series called LOVE THE BEACHES (see overview of basic idea and talk 1 here). We’re using some of this teaching to help drive our local mission push.

Please pray for us! (You are more than welcome to attend the launch… or keep coming if you’re local).

We’ve done some marketing via SMS, email, web, facebook, facebook advertising, postcards, business cards, letterbox drops, street chalking and word of mouth. See below for our postcard (the business card is similar).
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ICEBREAKER QUESTIONS // App Giveaway

My friend Calum Henderson has followed up his killer GROUP GAMES iPhone App with another solid Youth Ministry tool. Calum’s latest release in his Group Games Network is the ICEBREAKER QUESTIONS iPhone App. Check out the short intro vid:

Here’s the official blurb:

Have you ever led a small group and needed a quick question to find out a little something about others?

Have you ever interviewed someone and wanted a non-standard question to get to know a bit more about who they really are?

Have you ever been in an awkward conversation and needed something to kickstart things?

Then this App is for you!

I regularly use Group Games and I’m sure that IceBreaker Questions will likewise be useful in our kids and youth ministry at St Faith’s.

I’ve clicked through a significant number of the random questions in this new App. They are creative, interesting, funny and would certainly be great conversation starters. I have a ridiculous number of apps on my phone. This one is probably the simplest! It does what it says it will do.

Want a free copy? I have 3 to give away. The first 3 people to say “ICE BREAK ME” in the comments of this blog post… it’s yours. If you miss out – it only costs 99c. Get on it!

I also have 2 free copies of Group Games App. First 2 people to say “GROUP GAMES” in the comments… it’s yours. (You can’t enter both competitions).

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