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Join us on April 5th...Your Dinner is
Served!
Posted: March 10, 2008
Information: Grace Lin, 617-262-4567 x178,
glin[at]egc.org
**Click here to view the 2008 Annual Dinner electronic invitation**
The Emmanuel Gospel Center is hosting its
annual evening of celebration and fundraising
on Saturday, April 5, 2008. This year the dinner will be held at Our Lady of the Cedars of Lebanon in Jamaica Plain. Come join us! And bring
others with you!
The theme for this year, It’s Getting Louder!, refers
to the growing sense among many in Boston
that the Quiet Revival is entering a new phase. Over
the past 30 to 40 years, as God has been building
his Kingdom in Greater Boston,
he has been growing new churches,
strengthening systems, developing
unity, increasing outreach, and
encouraging more prayer. Many people feel God is about to move
even more significantly in our region.
It’s Getting Louder! will be a
celebration of what God has been
and still is doing in
Greater
Boston
through the Quiet Revival,
and a public declaration
that, individually
and corporately, we
want to be aware of and ready to be involved in
what God is going to
do next.
Last year, 250 people
joined us for dinner.
This year, we move to a
different venue so we
can accommodate even
more people. So please
come celebrate with us
on April 5, and bring
other people (lots of
them!) with you. There
will be plenty of room
and plenty of food. We
hope to see you then!
If you would like to attend, please let us know by sending
an e-mail to our dinner coordinator, Grace Lin, at glin[at]egc.org with your
name and postal mailing address as well as the names of your guests. We
will send you a confirmation letter with directions to Cedars of Lebanon.
—Dana Wade
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Ministry Opportunity
Emmanuel Gospel Center, Boston, MA
Vitality Project Director
February 2008
Posted: March 10, 2008
Information: Jeffrey Bass, 617-262-4567 x165, jbass[at]egc.org
The Vitality Project Director is a key leadership position at the Emmanuel Gospel Center (EGC). The Vitality Project represents EGC’s forward thinking about urban ministry and revival. Information about EGC and the Vitality Project can be found at www.egc.org.
The Vitality Project Director is responsible to oversee and guide the work of the Vitality Project in alignment with the vision provided by the Vitality Project Vision Team (of which the Director is a member).
Reports to: Jeffrey Bass, Executive Director
Full-time (40 hours per week)
Specific responsibilities include:
- Direct the work of the Vitality Project staff to develop, implement, and coordinate each of the four areas of the Vitality Project: Prayer, City Networking, New School of Thought, and Media
- Ensure the effective administration of the Vitality Project, including supervising administrative staff, and overseeing financial management and communications.
- Work with the Vitality Project Vision Team to understand, articulate and develop the overall direction of the Vitality Project, and to ensure its continued alignment with EGC’s mission and priorities and its connection to EGC research, programs, activities and systems. This team is led by Dr. Elijah Kim.
- Strengthen the base of financial support for the Vitality Project, including the fundraising efforts of its missionary staff and programs.
- Be an integral part of EGC's family and ministry, such as by attending weekly EGC staff meetings, daily prayer times, and periodic events, as well as serve as a leadership resource, including being on the Ministry Development Team (EGC’s senior leadership team).
- Perform other tasks consistent with the above as directed by the Executive Director.
Desired Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will be a committed Christian active in an urban church; bring a creative, entrepreneurial energy to the work; have excellent interpersonal, administrative, communication, and organizational skills; be able to manage multiple projects concurrently; be gifted at empowering the work of others; and be excited about EGC’s mission and approach to ministry. Project development, supervisory, and fundraising experience are desired. People of color are encouraged to apply.
If interested, please send cover letter and resume to Jeffrey Bass, jbass[at]egc.org.
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GBCPC Collaboration Gathering on Feb. 2, 2008
If you haven’t finalized your plans yet for Groundhog Day this year (Feb. 2), as a church planter or a supporter of the church planting enterprise you might want to consider this option: attend the Greater Boston Church Planting Collaborative Gathering to be held on Groundhog Day, on Saturday morning, Feb. 2.
Groundhog Day may be the perfect day for us church planters to stick our heads up, come out of our holes, sniff the wind, seek the light, assess the shadows, and ask ourselves “do the weeks ahead of me still look pretty wintry, or am I more optimistic than that?”
Questions we’ll lay flat out on the table on Feb. 2 can include, for group consideration, mutual learning, and intercessory prayer:
- This church planting business is too hard. How do you keep going?
- I’m ready to quit. How do we know when it’s time to quit?
- This is what I’ve discovered is most important in starting a church.
- Why isn’t my church planting working?
- Why is my church planting working?
- How do you get started in starting a new church?
- Where do you go to learn what you need to learn?
- What is successful church planting anyway?
- How long does it take to start a church in Greater Boston?
- What are examples of successful church plants in the last five years in Greater Boston?
- How do you get the money you need to start a church and to support yourself and your family?
- Etc. etc. etc.
Church planting groundhogs, sticking together, can help and encourage and learn from one another. And encourage those who maybe will quit, having given it their best shot. There’s no shame in that.
Saturday, February 2, 9:30 – 11:30 AM at the Emmanuel Gospel Center, 2 San Juan St., Boston 02118. RSVP is helpful, but not required. Free.
for directions, more information, or with suggestions you have. Let’s learn from each other.
Ralph Kee, animator
Greater Boston Church Planting Collaborative
GBCPC is not an organization or a group, but, peers to peers, a call, a reference, a resource, a spirit and a hop
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