Team Well Gathering    

11.30.08

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

WELLBEING

Davey opened the night with a powerful song and we followed it in prayer.  

Well needs prayed for: Children’s Pastor, Preview Gathering on the 14th, team would continue to expand, relationships in community

WELLTOLD

1.  Brett –  shared about guy he works with inviting him to be apart of The Well

WELLUPDATED

1. Ricky shared our group strategy as he met with Brad and Morgan this afternoon to nail down the bolts of what this will look like in creating environments of authentic community.  We will only do two things at the Well and everything will flow out of them: gatherings and groups.

WELLTIMED   

We focused much of our attention as a team brainstorming and planning for our upcoming parade.  The team agreed to once again pick up trash and discussed passing out water bottles with our logo w/ survey cards attached.  Brett mentioned making trash pickers from work & the team delegated responsibilities.

• December 6: Space Usage Day at the Theater from 8am-12pm / We will be unloading the trailers for the first time and going through our set up / tear down strategy.  It is a must for all team well to be there to help out!  The band will decide after this day what all purchases need to be made and plan a guitar center outing that same week.
• December 7: Team Well Christmas Party @ the Van Pay’s – 5pm / Everyone bring a dirty Santa gift and a food dish.  We will be playing games, eating, and watching a flick.  Anyone is invited.
• December 13: Christmas caroling @ Wood Manor – email Jonna for details
• December 14: The Well Preview #1 at 10am

Tasks for the week:

1.  Jonna will be making call tomorrow to Wood Manor to find out specifics about Wood Manor, as well as scheduling time to          

     watch CCB videos

2.  Ricky will be calling prison this week to find out details about Christmas lunch

3.  Morgan will be thinking through the group strategy and knocking out CCB videos

4.  Michelle needs to finalize details and plans for Christmas party and email out info who needs to bring what.

5.  Amy & Davey need to plan a day week of 7th to head to guitar center to make purchases.  Will need to research out prices ahead of time

6.  Brad needs to look over Big Idea book and be prepared for teaching team retreat on 19-20th

7.  Amy needs to plan for Dec 18th PNO and send out evites.  We also need some Team Well to help volunteer.

8.  Matt needs to notify Ricky about the date for RCYPO dinner in January

9.  Amy will need to find out about shower date for our neighbor

10.  Ricky needs to find out about family adopting for Christmas as a team

WELLTAUGHT

As a team we read 1 Corinthians 12 and shared our observations.  Ricky read a page from the book: The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond.  We challenged each other to read this chapter everyday this week and apply it as we take a back seat in all of our relationships.  Ricky shared of one of the greatest acts of love in which he received a gift card this past Sunday from a Hurricane Katrina victim.

WELLPLAYED

The player of the week was Allen Brezine.  The dude showed up tonight after working a long shift at Arby’s.  Allen thank you for making our gatherings a priority – we love you man!  He will be a huge assett in helping us run the sound board on Sunday’s.  

WELLINFORMED 

Next week we will not be meeting in groups due to the Christmas Party.  Invite a friend as an opportunity to meet others involved with the church.

Team Well Gathering    

10.26.08

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

WELLBEING

Davey and Amy led in two worship songs as we opened up the night in prayer

WELLTOLD

1.  Brett –  mentioned his testimony from work with his former classmates & supervisor

WELLUPDATED

1. 1.  Online Community (CCB) - Everyone on the team can now go to our website and go to contact.  Click on the log-in link and enter personal information into our new database.  This will also keep track of our calendar and all financial information.   
2. Budget - Ricky encouraged everyone to stay committed with their tithes.  He shared the huge blessing God poured out with a business owner giving us a $1000 copy machine & random guy giving him $50 for gas.  This is what occurs has we are faithful in giving away – God will give back.
3. Team Status - We are currently looking at a couple of possibilities of Kid’s Pastors & several Teaching Pastors.  We added a few more at this gathering and are increasing our team as each passes by.

WELLTIMED   

We focused much of our attention as a team brainstorming and planning for our upcoming parade.  The team agreed to once again pick up trash and discussed passing out water bottles with our logo w/ survey cards attached.  Brett mentioned making trash pickers from work & the team delegated responsibilities.

• November 1 – Will Rogers Parade (400-600pm) picking up trash
• November 8-9 – Team Retreat (cost $20 plus food)
• November 15 – Spaghetti Dinner (6pm)
• November 21-22 Dickens on the Blvd (6-10pm)

WELLTAUGHT

Ricky briefly shared using the text from Exodus 18 in which Moses was overloaded with needs and responsibilities.  Ricky shared that this is not his thing and that it is the team’s.  A team is now in place and we need to start going from “Me” to “We”.  He quoted an older minister mentioning the lack of commitment from this generation and how they quit.  We will not be that way.  He challenged the team to get their fingerprints all over the well and take ownership.

WELLPLAYED

The player of the week was Jonna Brumbaugh.  She hadn’t even attended a weekly gathering yet and already served like crazy at the garage sale!   

WELLINFORMED 

Ricky encouraged everyone to hang out & challenged everyone with a short exerp of BEING THE CHURCH rather than just doing it.

Team Well Gathering

10.19.08

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

WELLTOLD

1. 1.  Davey -  shared about his experience with the drunkard
2. 2.  Amy – shared about her new focus on picking up trash ever since the parade 
3. Ricky – shared about his conversation with a high school senior and telling him about The Well and making the name of Jesus famous in our community.  He also mentioned the opportunity we have to partner with the county prison for a Christmas feeding.

WELLBEING

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

• We prayed for our new group format meeting an hour before the gatherings.  We are believing that this will be a time to form a brother and sisterhood amongst our team.
• We added more names to the Wall and layed hands
• We prayed over an upcoming interview with a potential kid’s pastor, as well as teaching pastor
• We lifted up the garage sale and that we would show our community the love of God by giving away free items to those in need

WELLUPDATED

1. 1.  Online Community (CCB) - Everyone on the team can now go to our website and go to contact.  Click on the log-in link and enter personal information into our new database.  This will also keep track of our calendar and all financial information.   
2. Budget – Ricky encouraged anyone that wanted to view our budget and expense reports
3. Team Status – We will be interviewing a potential Kid’s Pastor on Tues pm, as well as someone that may help out with the teaching on Sunday’s.  We also added three more to the team tonight!
4. Personal Growth – Everyone was invited to grab books on the table for growth

WELLTIMED

 We focused most of our attention again this week on our Free Garage Sale.  Amy led the way with sharing all of our to do list and delegated out tasks to make this happen.  We also began discussion about our upcoming parade, Dickens on Blvd opportunity, as well as our team retreat.

• October 25 – Free Garage Sale in the Springbrook Neighborhood  (7am-12pm)
• November 1 – Will Rogers Parade (430-600pm) picking up trash
• November 8-9 – Team Retreat (cost $20 plus food)
• November 21-22 Dickens on the Blvd (6-10pm)

WELLTAUGHT

Ricky read from Acts 2 and discussed the content from the book “It”.  He shared that it doesn’t matter what size building you meet in, how much money you have in your budget, how big your team is (we’re in a garge for crying out loud!) but it comes down to having “it”.  People know when we don’t.  He shared that we can have a cool website, pass out cool flyers, and even serve the community and it may attract people to a theater.  What we need is a crazy passion and be madly in love with Jesus and let it drench from our pores.  People must see that we are madly in love with our Savior and madly in love with them!  He quoted Albert Pine “what we do for ourselves dies with us, what we do for others in the world remains and is immortal”

WELLPLAYED

The player of the week was Mark Goodman.  Ricky notified everyone that Mark is our new graphic designer and affirmed everything Mark had done over the past week.

WELLLISTED

Davey & Amy led us in a couple of worship songs as we gave praise to Christ!

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 awhile before watching the Red Sox downfall.

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.

Team Well Gathering

10.05.08

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

WELLBEING

We met earlier to spend more time in prayer for specific needs.  We also listed several needs pertaining to The Well specifically:

• Next Sunday’s commissioning at Claremore A/G
• That God would send us someone that is absolutely head over heels passionate about kids
• For all 431 names listed on the garage wall and that we would serve them one by one

WELLTOLD

1. Brett – shared about the neighbor he met and has invited to dinner after his wedding
2. Prissi – shared about lady she recently helped in a court case
3. Michelle – she bought cookies from a child that is a neighbor they are working a
4. Ricky – shared about mowing his neighbor’s lawn yesterday
5. Shawn – shared about a guy he met in Africa

WELLUPDATED

• Everyone has agreed to give away our last month’s offering to a special cause
• Ricky talked with an RSU student about graphic design
• Ricky let everyone know that there’s 11 possible church partners com next year
• Several from the team will be going down to Dallas at end of month to pick up sound equipment

WELLTAUGHT

We started out creating different parts of the body with play-doh.  We were missing several parts and couldn’t put together a full body.  It illustrated everything Paul spoke of in 1 Cor 12.  We proceeded to discover each of our “Shape’s”.   We followed it up with a short 10 minute break.

WELLTIMED

Ricky reminded everyone about next week’s service at Claremore A/G and that everyone is invited, but that if you need to choose – please make next week’s gathering at 5pm more of the priority.  We focused most of our attention on our October serving opportunities. 

1. October 10 this Friday 4pm – Homecoming Parade
2. October 25 – Free Garage Sale in the Springbrook Neighborhood

Based on everyone’s “Shape” we delegated out tasks.

WELLPLAYED

The player of the week was Davey Rumsey.  Ricky affirmed the fact that Davey has been serving alongside him at Wood Manor, as well as been faithful with the worship.  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 went to lunch at Charlie’s Chicken.

The kids learned about how Jesus calms the storm and how he protects us.  Mark chapter 4 provided the text.  Amy had them craft little boats together and had different ones get up on the kids table while the others “rocked the ship to visualize a storm.”  I guess since the adults used play-doh we all had kid’s church today – it’s amazing that we can have fun at church!

Team Well Gathering

09.28.08

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

WELL BEING

Personal needs

1.  Prissi – the work week

2.  Brett – got food poisoning last night and needs healing

3.  Davey – renewal out of the funk from this past week

4.  Ricky - complete focus on “the one or two” God puts in his path this week

5.  Amy – displine in planning so won’t get so stressed

The Well needs

1.  Start-up budget – friends, churches, and family will commit to partner financially, itineration opps

2.  Players on Team Well - many we’ve talked to would answer a call to serve alongside us

3.  Comissioning service with partnering church on oct 12 – that God would open the flood gates financially

4.  Every name on “the wall” that God would give us opps to serve them and show Christ’s authentic love

WELL TOLD

1. Davy – shared about the older handicapped man that he helped in town last week
2. Brad – shared about his neighbor, as well as client he is working with
3. Amy – mentioned friends she’s spoke to about The Well, as well as picking up trash at the lake during a jog
4. Prissi - spoke about a lady that she has been reaching out too at work
5. Ricky – shared about the elderly lady he helped at the post office, as well as older man while doing inspections

WELL PLAYED

The Player of the Week was Prissi Klepczyk for volunteering to touch our kids lives a few weeks ago in a very small bedroom.  Ricky thanked Prissi for being involved and her support from the very beginning stages of The Well and how it will never be forgotten!

WELL UPDATED 

□ Church Community Builder – this will be our church software program

□ Big Brother & Big Sisters – Amy has an opportunity to serve on the board

□ Leadership Rogers County & Citizens Academy – In the past week Ricky has been able to make 40 new

    contacts

□ Website Production / First Touch Pieces - Our graphic designer will completing our site within the next two

    weeks, as well as providing us with 2500 promo materials and 2500 survey cards to pass out to our friends. 

□ T-shirts – these should be in by end of the week so we can begin wearing as we serve together in the community

□ October Missions offering – we will begin designating each month $ toward a cause
□ Financial report : we’ve currently raised close to $25,000 / still waiting on our tax exempt app to go through 

□ Affiliation in November with the OK District

WELL TIMED

OCTOBER

4                      Dickens Bike Ride @ 1pm

5                      T3 Triathlon @ 8am

                        Team Gathering “Shape” @ 10am-12pm

7                      CRU Gathering RSU @ 7pm

10                   Homecoming Parade @ 4pm

11                    Wood Manor @ 9am

12                   Commissing Service @ 1030am

                       Team Gathering “Boot Camp” @ 5pm-7pm

14                    CRU Gathering RSU @ 7pm

17-18               Guys Camping Venture

19                   Team Gathering “SOAP” @ 10am-12pm

                       BnB Theater Space Usage / Prayer @ 4pm

                       Team Movie Night @ BNB – TBA

21                    CRU Gathering RSU @ 7pm

24                    Halloween Extravaganza (pumpkins) @ 6pm

25                    Free Garage Sale @ Springbrook – TBA

26                    Team Gathering @ 10am-12pm                     

28                     CRU Gathering RSU @ 7pm

Players Present

Prissi Klepcvyk – Kids leader / Planning

Davy Rumsey – Wood Manor / RSU / Worship

Brad Robinson – Systems Development

Michelle Brogdon – Admin Assistant

Amy Van Pay – Worship / Kids

WELL TAUGHT

Ricky shared on the topic of “It’s About One”

Ricky reminded the team why are we doing Sunday Feb 22?  A life will be changed forever, generations effected, families, businesses, marriages.  He encouraged to narrow our vision a bit more: serving our community with the authentic love of Christ one person at a time.

He stated that “Each day I believe there will be one, or two, maybe three people he puts in my path – and that’s why I lived that day”.  Ricky reminded everyone that we will always spend time celebrating stories of how we are building relationships with unchurched people during the week.  It reinforces our mission and answers the why question for everything else we do.  We went on to discover how we can all specifically come up with a relational network and better keep track of the names on “the wall”.

“We each carried out our servant assignment.  I planted the seed.  Apollos watered the plants, but god made you grow.  It’s not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God who makes things grow.  Planting and watering are menial servant jobs, what makes them worth doing is the God we are serving.”  1 cor 3:5-9 exerps

Look at your day – who’s the one on your list?  Pick one everyday to make a difference in them! Who can you pray for, encourage, pastor, pursue, invest, or love? Who can I pray for, encourage, pastor, pursue, invest how can we give ourselves away? 

“we want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well” 1 cor 10:24

• The kids were taught the story of Gideon and used play doh for the object lesson.  They also worshipped to a Hillsong video.

WELL LISTED 

The team wrote 51 new names on “the list”.  We then placed hands on the wall and we soaked these names in prayer.

WELL CONNECTED 

The team dismissed and had lunch at Arby’s.  Everyone was invited to the Tulsa Fair.

Team Well Gathering

09.14.08

“on this team you won’t make a difference, you will be the difference”

WELL BEING

We started the morning off eating cinammon rolls and splitting up into a band of brothers & sisters.  The guys gathered together for prayer on the back deck, while the girls stayed inside to keep warm & dry.  We then gathered as one for worship.  We then took an offering in the City of Claremore water bottle.

Personal needs

1.  Andy – work week

2.  Brett – job

3.  Davey – filling a little under the weather

4.  Ricky – remained focus & not get bogged down with other stuff

5.  Michelle – health

6.  Amy – trusting in God to lead us into the unknown

The Well needs

1.  start-up budget – grant partners

2.  players on Team Well

3.  meeting with A/G section tomorrow

4.  road trip to Dallas to check out sound equipment

5.  comissioning service with partnering church on oct 12

WELL TOLD

1. Brett shared story about his grandpa at age 80 going to church for first time
2. Davy told story about James Bond and visiting Wood Manor this past week
3. Michelle shared about experience at hair salon with young girl
4. Morgan told about getting to know her neighbor
5. Amy shared about Mom’s club
6. Ricky talked about the message he left for our City Manager and the girl he got to talk to at Wood Manor

WELL PLAYED

The Player of the Week was Davey Rumsey for all his volunteering at Wood Manor & help with worship

WELL UPDATED 

1.  Ricky encouraged everyone to continue to look on the blog site for information as a team

2.  Everyone filled out the rest of our paperwork & finished signing partnership forms

WELL TIMED

Sept 15             Meeting with Executive Presbytery

Sept 20-21        Guys Road Trip to Dallas / Girls Recon in Tulsa

Sept 28             Well Gathering “Relational Network”

Oct 4-5              Dickens Ride / T3 Triathlon (serving opp)

Oct 5                 Well Gathering “The Well Bootcamp”

Oct 12               Commissioning Service @ Claremore A/G

Nov 1                Special Olympics – (serving opp)

Nov 23              Gateway Fellowship Itinerating

Every Sun        Team Well Gathering @ Van Pay’s 10am-12pm

Every Tues       CRU Gathering @ RSU 7pm  

WELL CHOSEN 

Players Present

Brett Brumbaugh

Prissi Klepcvyk

Davy Rumsey

Brad Robinson

Morgan

Michelle Brogdon

Andy Brogdon

Amy Van Pay

Ricky Van Pay

WELL TAUGHT

• Ricky shared about “Giving Ourselves Away”.  We listened to the U2 Song and pondered on the lyrics.  He commented that our primary focus is not so much starting a new church as it is to serve our community. 
• Everyone read different quotes about servanthood and several read passages of scripture (Mark 10:44-45; Luke 6:37-38; Acts 1)
• We reviewed the main content of the book: Externally Focused Church
• Main question asked, “If a church building caught on fire and burned, who would grieve?  Those that attended on the inside or those in the neighborhoods nearby?
• We then brainstormed ideas about how we could serve together as a team & ideas to serve individually during the week

The kids were taught the story about Peter, James, & John throwing their nets out and catching all the fish.

WELL LISTED 

The team wrote 287 new names on “the list”.  Everyone then placed hands on the wall and we soaked these names in prayer.

WELL CONNECTED 

The team dismissed and had lunch at Goldie’s.  The cool part is our waitress happened to already be a name on the wall.  

Team Well Gathering

09.07.08

“on this team you won’t make a difference, you will be the difference”

WELL BUILT

Crowd breaker: i-favorites

WELL POINT 

Connect with players on Team Well, celebrate wins, share stories, pray, hand out binders

WELL BEING

Ricky reminded everyone that this team will be like family and will become a small band of brothers and sisters that will have each other’s backs in prayer

Personal needs

1.       Brad – step brother

2.       Brett – cousin in prison & long-distance relationship

3.       A majority of the team filling the spiritual attacks from getting on the team

The Well needs

1.       start-up budget – grant partners

2.       players on Team Well

3.       meeting with A/G section

WELL DONE

1. Ricky told a story of meeting a new friend named Chris while jogging, shared how several rsu students are interested in serving at The Well.  He reminded the team how much of a priority RSU will be as a church.
2. Davy suggested opening a facebook & myspace page for The Well.

WELL PLAYED

The Player of the Week was Michelle Brogdon for all her countless hours helping mail out the proposal packets

WELL TOLD 

1. Ricky shared the greatest miracle God has granted thus far in this endeavor – an unexpected financial blessing. 
2. Davy said he wasn’t expecting that and that he’s in this more than ever!
3. Ricky challenged everyone to be prepared each week to share stories of those that they have initiated relationships with and ways they have personally served people

WELL UPDATED 

1. Prissi has a colored printer she wants to donate for office purposes
2. Ricky informed everyone that

·          a website is being developed and will be finished in a few weeks

·          in the next few weeks the team will go over to the theater to look at space usage

·          we have an opportunity to purchase some sound equipment

·          Amy is currently organizing the kids area and we need to be praying for a kids leader

WELL TIMED

Sept 14             Well Gathering to discuss “Serving ideas & relational network”

Sept 15             Meeting with Executive Presbytery

Sept 21             Well Gathering “The Well Boot Camp”

Oct 4                 Dickens Ride – serving opportunity

Oct 5                 C3 Triathlon – serving opportunity

Nov 1                Special Olympics – serving opportunity

Nov 23              Gateway Fellowship Itinerating

Every Sun         Team Well Gathering @ Van Pay’s 10am-12pm

Every Tues        CRU Gathering @ RSU 7pm

WELL ASKED 

Prissi said she had a wonderful time at Wood Manor several weeks ago serving the elderly hot dogs.  The best part was being able to bring her boys with her and watching them have an opportunity to serve.

WELL CHOSEN 

Ricky went over team expectations & partnership.  The team signed a commitment for 6 months and was encouraged to play a role and not sit the bench.

Players Present

Brett Brumbaugh

Prissi Klepcvyk

Davy Rumsey

Brad Robinson

Michelle Brogdon

Andy Brogdon

Amy Van Pay

Ricky Van Pay

WELL TAUGHT

• Ricky read a verse in Matthew in which Jesus commissions his disciples to go out two by two “don’t worry about doing a fundraising campaign, don’t worry about all the equipment, you are the equipment!”.
• He shared that it doesn’t matter how many are on the team right now and how much money we’ve raised – at this point God has all he needs to make this endeavor go forth.  It is his team and his church!
• Ricky cast the vision that Claremore doesn’t need another church, but it needs something different.  It needs an externally focused church and our vision will and always will be to serve our community with the authentic love of Christ.
• He told the illustration of a Thomas Kincade puzzle in how no one likes putting together the “sky” pieces but they are a must to the bigger picture.  We must go through the process of affiliation and the list of legal issues to become a church.  We don’t have too but God will honor us as we submit to our elders.  Our primary focus will not be the “doing church” nearly as much as the “being the church”.

The kids were taught the story of Balaam from Numbers 22.  They re-enacted the story by learning the importance of obeying God and they made donkey puppets as a sticky factor.

WELL LISTED 

The team wrote 51 new names on “the list” – which will be left on the Van Pay’s living room wall for the next six months.  We will commit these names to prayer and hope to one day lead them into a relationship with Christ.

WELL CONNECTED 

Ricky encouraged everyone to stay connected by checking emails regularly and reading blogs posted on the team blog: www.thewellclaremore.com  

Everyone was encouraged to bring binders & Bibles next week and read Acts 1

We ended by taking up our first team offering

Purpose

Connect with potential players of the well team, share updates, q n a, prayer

Present

Brett Brumbaugh

Amy Van Pay

Ricky Van Pay

Prayer

Personal needs

1.  Brett – work / upcoming marriage

2.  Amy – family / the boys

3.  Ricky – injury free during training

The Well needs

1. Ministry Plan: mail out to friends/family/churches (two scheduled services, 3 pending)
2. Non-profit ideas
3. Community favor
4. Team commitment

Wins to Celebrate

Email from Mayor Brant Shallenburger

Daily Progress / Magazine Article

Check for $900

Equipment Donation from church

Calendar

Aug 13           CRU (campus crusade for Christ) leadership meeting

Aug 19           Executive Presbytery meets to stamp approval (pastor owens, steve pike call)

Aug 23           Wood Manor hot dog grill out

Sept 5-6        Chili Festival

Sept 7           begin gathering weekly as a team (survey will be sent out time/place)

Vision

Serving our community with the authentic love of Christ

Community Partnerships (red cross/vol for youth/rcy/wood manor/big bro’s/hab for humanity/rsu public relations/coalition/young profs/rc gov’t academy/rc ldshp council)

Strategy

1.  Location in a theater

2.  Launch Team of 50 (warfare)

3.  $75,000 budget

4.  Relational Network of 1500

5.  Equipment

5 G Expectations (gatherings, groups, gifts, giving, growth)

The Power of One: Ricky talked about God using David a little shepherd boy to cause a giant to fall and ignite a whole army

Meeting Date: July 13

Meeting Time: 5:00

Venue: Pizza Time Buffet

Present:

Prissi Klepchek

Ricky & Amy Van Pay

Andy & Michelle Brogdon

Brad Robinson

Mark Peaden

Davy Rumsey

Rachel Mueller

Lindsey Tatum (watching the kids) 

Opening: spent time eating together and then followed it up with team building:

• animal kindom: grab a stuffed animal and tell us what personality you are most like
• favorite popcorn: everyone throwing out answers to some of their favorites
• the sheet: everyone had to get on a sheet and work together to turn it over without getting off

Tonight’s Purpose: Connect with each other, share updates, and have time of q n a

Wins to Celebrate

1.  Ricky shared how one of our friends that is serving in Iraq sent a check to cover the deposit for our website

2.  We shared how much favor we received from Claremore A/G board and the approval process

3.  Ricky also shared how much favor we received from the B n B theater for a location

OUR CALENDAR

Aug 10 – a well social gathering

Sept – begin meeting weekly as a team to launch The Well in February 09

Q & A

Brad asked, “where are we in the overall process with getting district approved?”

Brad also asked, “what is the current situation with the theater location?”

Worship / Vision

• Amy & Davey led two songs as we gave praise to Christ and connected with him
• Ricky shared the story of Gideon and how God received all the credit – same way right now with The Well.  He also spoke on the vision and where we are going from here.
• Michelle commented how excited she is and how she has been praying for a new church to start that she could be apart of.

CLOSING PRAYER: butcher paper w/ markers (wrote down friends far from god)

Dessert: Several went over to the Van Pay’s for cookies and more time of questions and sharing