Easter is always a pretty busy time for the church. We try our best to build up to Easter empowering our members to be praying for and reaching out to their friends and family. Here is what we got going down at GBCK gearing up for Easter.

March 12: Beverage Blast
Passed out free drinks to people at the parks in Kapolei who were participating in sports.

March 26: Womens lunch outreach
The women of the church invited others and gathered for a time of outreach and fellowship.

April 20: Easter Supplies
We will set up a table after school at Mauka Lani Elementary (the school that we meet at every Sunday) and pass out supplies for parents who want to give Easter baskets to their kids, but might need help providing this for their kids.

April 23: Prayer and Door Hangers
We will walk the community praying and hanging door hangers with plastic easter eggs with candy and small gifts inside. The door hangers will also have an invitation to our Easter services.

Each year we take a week at the beginning of the year to dedicate ourselves to God in prayer and fasting.  For GBCK this is happening next week Jan 24-30.  We will take a week to dethrone the all powerful stomach God and focus more time and attention on Jesus.

We will be opening up a bunch of prayer pockets at our new office space here in Kapolei.  Here is the schedule.

Monday
700pm-830pm

Tuesday
9am-1030am
7pm-830pm

Wednesday
9am-1030am
7pm-830pm

Thursday
9am-1030am
700pm-830pm

Friday
730pm:  Xchange Youth Service

It’s been a while since I last posted one of these.  Too much to catch yall up with everything happening at GBCK, but let me roll out some thoughts…

-Christmas eve service was a hit.  It always feels good to pack out a room.  Tons of new people exposed to Jesus.

-1 Service sunday is my favorite service of the year

-great time with our volunteers at our volunteer appreciation lunch last sunday.  definitely love our volunteers

-God moving in big ways in the lives of people in our church… Praying and asking for prayer for these guys.

-launched a new series today.  Be One, Make One.

-realized today we made a bunch of big time improvements to our facility last year

-bunch of people stepping up and saying they want to start new small groups.  gotta love discipleship.

-youth encounter weekend was powerful.  amazed at how much our youth is growing in Jesus.

-excited for seek week happening at the end of January.

-OUR PLAN FOR 2011:  SAME PLAN AS 2010.  MAKE DISCIPLES.

One of my favorite services of the year is definitely the 1 time a year that we scale things down to give our volunteers a break. The idea is to bring the 2 services together, and scale down the set up to what is absolutely necessary.  No kids ministry, no road signs, no hospitality.  We have a scaled down worship and a preacher, and that is about it.

Many pastors would consider this suicide.  Loss of tithes, loss of momentum and a bunch of other concerns most pastors have. For me I think it is a gain.  Gain of time to simplify and focus on Jesus and relationships.  Gain of filling up the tank of the volunteers.  Gain of showing our hard working volunteers that we value them more than the task.  Gain of fighting against that internal drive every pastor has to grow their church.

This past Halloween our youth team threw a party in an effort to reach out to their friends.  Understanding that the first step to discipleship is evangelism our team did a great job of engaging those far from Christ.

Check out some pictures from the party.