Announcing a New Initiative: Multi-Gatherings
By Stovall Weems
It’s been an incredible weekend at Celebration Church! As you may have heard from Pastor Stovall this weekend, Celebration is launching a new initiative this fall we are calling multi-gatherings.
Multi-gatherings are designed to bring the Celebration service experience (worship and message) out into our community. For those people in our world who are not coming to church for whatever reason, we are taking church to them.
We are launching over 200 extension gatherings the weekend of September 5th. These gatherings will be added to the current weekend services at Celebration Church and none of the services already taking place will go away.
These extension gatherings are church services that are held anytime and anywhere. They are not small groups or just video messages. They are hosted services where people can participate in worship, receive the same weekend message shared at our campuses, and connect in with the community and life of the local church – just like they do at any of our current venues. These gatherings can take place both locally in Jacksonville and globally around the world.
Extension gatherings will range in sizes from 10 to 300 people and can include but are not limited to gatherings at college campuses, nursing homes, prisons, coffee shops, community club houses, workplaces (with permission of course), hospital chapels, military bases, theaters, bars, clubs and neighborhoods. People have already expressed interest in many of these locations and are ready to take church to those they hope to reach in their circle of friends, colleagues, and to their family members.
We are believing for 3000 souls to be added in a day (weekend) just like we saw in the book of Acts, and that’s just the start!
As Pastor Stovall said this weekend, Celebration Church serves to empower people to live the God-first life. He is simply giving permission to those who are fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ, to take church to their world and reach more people.
We’re also pleased to announce two new campuses kicking off the weekend of September 5th in the cities of St. Mary’s and St. Augustine.
Look out for regular postings on this initiative as we believe something special is taking shape.
Since this is unchartered territory for us, we welcome any constructive feedback or questions. Please let us know your thoughts in the comments.
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It’s so exciting to be on the forefront in a move of God. Thank you for hearing and for being brave enough to move on it. Here’s to being active participants in the great commission!
[…] believe the next wave of decentralization in the church in America will be the movement of multi-gatherings. I believe it will ignite the biggest, rawest, closest-to-the-book-of Acts-experience we have seen […]
This is incredible!! This is the big “Go ye”
It’s fulfilling the Great Commission at the highest level. What a witness!! Here in Africa this will have a huge impact. Praise be to God!! Dixon
I think you’re seeing what happens when you loose the leash on God-first people…
I’m truly excited to see what happens next! (Which is how “church” is supposed to be!!!)
Mark
Lou and I moved to Fort Worth, TX recently. Although we miss all our friends at Celebration church, we know this is where God wants us to be. We are so blessed to be able to see Celebration by Podcast. Thank you for using this technology. We are beleiving God in sending us to the Church we are to serve in the Fort Worth area.
Now that’s what I’m talking about!!! I would be honored to participate in this new program God has begun. Some of the guys on our base here in Adraskan Afghanistan meet several times a week already and watch the word of God, through Celebration Church, with the use of the podcast system. These men are so excited to watch the teaching of God and are beginning to live their lives by the “God Grid”. Thanks for thinking of the individuals who are unable to attend. Please keep us informed and count Adraskan Afghanistan in on this wonderful program.
Awesome, was the first word that came to mind. I’m lovin the “out of control” and “go out and see what God will do” part of this whole thing. I think we will all be in awe of what God will do over these next weeks and months.
Big John- you are right- the meeting Monday night was awesome. We already have over 200 new services launching and it is just the first info meeting. It was just amazing. I am so excited. Michael and Mike thanks for posting. I agree with you guys, this is going to be huge. Let’s all keep praying and believing God!
What exciting times we are living in. I am honored to be a part of all the great new things happening here and around the world. I truly believe this is the start of something HUGE!!!
This is brilliant! I’m so excited about the lives that will be impacted from this revolutionary God sized vision. Go God!
this has us excited to the max! imagine the response when this intiative gets into the life of the church! pumped about the meeting tonight!