Pastor Kevin

Tips on doing a BIG event.

Here are some reasons to do a big event.

Give students that have never come to your youth ministry a reason to show up.

Get students that have not attended in a while to come back for that evenings services.

Give your hard-core Christian students a reason to bring a friend with them to church.

Give your volunteers something to rally around, pray for and be excited about.

How to use events to build momentum in your ministry.

Put the BIG event at the end of a teaching series.

Take three weeks to preach on reaching out to the lost before the event.

Use the BIG event as the first service in your new teaching series.

Have something else exciting or extra going on in your service the following week.

Follow up effectively with your first time visitors.

Get your first time salvation students plugged into a discipleship program right after the event.

Top questions to ask yourself before doing your event.

Why are you doing the event?

What is the event?

What is your goal?

What is your follow up plan?

What is coming up after the event?

Is what we're doing really a BIG event or just a special service?

Pastor George's top three ways to do a big event.

I have the honor of serving one of the greatest pastors, teachers and outreach guru's of all time.  Pastor Willie George is a master at crafting outreach events that not only draw large crowds, but have an eternal impact in the lives of people.  Here are the three things he teaches on how to do a Big event.

Develop Your Plan.

What is the service going to be?  Who is going to speak?  What is the music going to be like?  Are you going to have special give-a-ways?  What is your budget?  What is your goal?  (Having a goal is important because, if you aim for nothing you'll hit it every time.)

Build Anticipation.

Take 3 to 6 weeks advertise. Start off slow, then as the days and weeks go by build more and more into your advertising campaign.  Do flyers, T-shirts, Videos, Drama's, etc to build anticipation toward the day of the event.

Equip Your people.

The best advertisement is your people getting out there and spreading the word.  Give them flyers, ask them to canvas the areas they live in, wear T-shirts on certain days, or do facebook and myspace pushes. Have them fill out cards with the list of friends they are going to bring to the event, then you as a staff take copies of those cards and pray over those names for weeks before the event.  However you do it, equip your people to bring in the lost for your outreach event.

These are just a few tips on doing a BIG event.  

Please email me on some of the BIG events you have done this past year, I'd love to hear them.

Social Issues

Ok, so I've got to be totally honest, I'm not one to jump on the band wagon of the latest social issue thats out there. Sometimes I think people are more about raising awareness than actually making a difference, so right or wrong it is easy for me to shrug some of that stuff off.

With that being said, several months ago in my study time I read these words from the bible..."I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink...as you have done this to the least of these, you have done also to me." As I read those words, while sipping a totally pure glass of ice water, I realized, this is one social issue that I can get behind.

I recently read that nearly 1 billion people don't have safe water to drink and that close to every 15 seconds a child dies because of lack of clean drinking water. Wether you are "into" the social issue thing or not, you have to agree that this is totally unacceptable. Somebody needs to do something.

This Holiday Season that someone is ONEIGHTY. 

On November 2nd and 9th I'm inviting every teenager and college student from the Tulsa area to show up at Oneighty with a friend and some money to give towards building a water well in the continent of Africa. A complete clean water well that will serve hundreds of adults and children with pure water only cost $4,500. So we are going to build them one.

I know it is totally politically incorrect to say, but I'm not really into the "social issue" thing, however, I am very much into giving families clean water to drink.  

Oneighty's World Premier Event

 

On October 28th Oneighty is hosting our World Premier of "The End is Near 3".  This will be our most epic and scary movie to date and our students are totally jazzed.  Here is the lowdown.  Each year we make a scary movie with this character named "The Ender" there is no blood, no gore, no evil spirits to the movie at all, however it is actually very scary.   (you can see the teaser video by clicking HERE.)

We use this premier complete with red carpet, poporratzi, awards for the best dressed (kids come decked out in tuxes, prom dresses the whole deal) free popcorn and some sweet prizes to draw in student that have not attended Oneighty in a while or would not regularly attend church but come for the event. While they are here we present the gospel to them in a very powerful way.

Year One of the End is Near - I spoke on End Times and the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ.

Year Two of the End is Near - I talked about how all good things must come to an end.  That sin has its pleasure for a season, but in the end the fun is over and you have to pay the bill for your mistakes.

Year Three of the End is Near (thats this year) - I am going to come out dressed in a sweet tuxedo. I'm going to talk about how just like the Ender -  our sin and addictions are always around the corner waiting on us and if we don't confess them, and bring them to Christ they will ruin, destroy our heart and future. I'm going to illustrate this by totally ripping my tuxedo to shreds as I speak.

We are going to try and put this entire message up at www.oneighty.com so you can check it out for yourself if you would like.

This World Premier Event is going to be a monster night....and we are praying that tons of students will come to the saving grace of Jesus Christ because of our efforts.  I'll give you a full report on October 29th.  

Three Key Ingredients in Marketing.

A successful marketing campaign must have these three essential ingredients.

1) Excitement - is whatever your going exiting?

2)  News - what story do you have to tell?

3) A compelling call to action - what role can your students and workers play?

Just some food for thought for the next program, event or ministry you want people to find out about.