Team Well Gathering

10.12.08

“On this team you won’t make a difference, YOU WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE”

WELLBEING

We started the evening doing the most important thing – praying for specific needs.  We also listed several needs pertaining to The Well specifically:

WELLTOLD

1. Brad - talked about how awesome it was serving at the parade and then we discussed how our team could be the cleaning crew for all upcoming parades
2. Davey – shared about his grandpa & his conversation about church & God
3. Amy – shared about conversation at Mom’s Club
4. Ricky – mentioned the elderly lady from Citizen’s Academy that wants to come to The Well on Feb 22, the two RSU students he talked to at Java Dave’s, and the phone call from a friend inviting him to his wedding
5. Ricky shared how the morning went at Claremore A/G as the church took up pledges & an offering to go toward our endeavor.  So far a little over $1200 was brought in with $145 in monthly pledges.

WELLUPDATED

Website & First Touch Pieces

1. Website is up and running with a few kinks to work out (www.thewellchurch.tv) – please check it out and take the 5 minute survey!
2. We were able to pick up our sport bottles, t-shirts, first touch pieces, survey cards to begin putting into the hands of the curious – everyone grabbed handfulls

Budget

1. We’ve raised over $25,000 of our $75,000 start up goal and have been approved for the MX9 Grant from the A/G denomination.  We should be getting a $30,000 matching grant by mid November!
2. The team is brainstorming on what cause to give toward for our October missions offering
3. We received our tax exempt letter this past week!  This should have taken 3 months but took 2 weeks – this is huge, as we will be purchasing some major items in the next few months.

Team Status

1. Ricky & Amy attended an ORU Career Expo and met and got contact info for over 20 students.  We need to pray that God would speak to some hearts to come help us.  Perhaps there are some that are looking for internships.
2. The Well has continued to partner with 3 different organizations at RSU – CRU, BCM, and FCA.  All of these ministries are wide open for our involvement and are pumped at the thought of a church reaching out to the college campus.

WELLTAUGHT

We read from 1 Peter 4 and James 1 about enduring all persecution and setbacks.  We discussed how some of us how felt like we are in a funk.  This was perhaps a break through night for our team as we completely opened up and fulfilled a core value – to be authentic and to be completely ourselves.  The team layed hands on each other and showed one another how much we cared and loved each other.  This by far was the greatest team gathering yet as we went to another level with each other.

WELLTIMED

 We focused most of our attention on our second serving opportunity in October.  We will be giving ourselves away to our neighborhood of Springbrook with a FREE GARAGE SALE!  We delegated out task to make this happen.  We also discussed a weekend retreat and staying in Claremore to cut back on cost.

• October 25 – Free Garage Sale in the Springbrook Neighborhood
• October 19 – Team Gathering next week followed by trip to theater to discuss space usage
• November 1 – Special Olympics Event / Will Rogers Parade
• November 8-9 – Team Retreat

WELLPLAYED

The player of the week was Brad Robinson.  Brad is our research and development leader and is working closely with Ricky to develop the behind the scene systems that help us with structure.  Although we will be organic in our relational approach we still need some organization.  We put him on the “hot seat” for one minute and had a blast getting to know him more!

WELLLISTED

Davey led us in a sweet worship song as we added more names to the wall and ended our time in prayer.

WELLINFORMED

Ricky encouraged everyone to think of one or two friends they could invite to come check out the weekly gathering next week.  We dismissed and hung out eating more, checking our website, laughing, and played some mean ping pong.