It's All Coming Together Now

We're off tomorrow for the Super Bowl and then we have five weeks of preview services left before we move to the elementary school. Our launch date is going to be Easter Sunday, but we will be going public in the sense of advertising to the community starting the week before Palm Sunday.

Now that we have our EIN number from the IRS we have been able to do a lot of things that we've been waiting to do. We got our phone number this week, as well as our bank account and mailing address. This also allowed us to get our insurance so that we can rent the school. We should be getting our paperwork back for our permit to use the school any day now and then the paper work nightmare will start to come to a close.

Advertising has been a big priority in my mind. I don't think many churches realize that they need to let people know that they are there and want visitors to come check them out. We don't have a lot of money but we've been blessed with some and we are going to spend a healthy percent of it on getting the word out. We are going to send in our mailer order this week and probably get the signs ordered in the next couple weeks. It's pretty simple stuff, but I've seen it work wonders for our mother church and I think it's a big mistake not to make an effort at letting people know you're there.