Jun12008
Filed under: Churches
Author: tony
I hopped in the car and headed down to Atlanta this morning to visit Buckhead Church. Here’s a picture of the crew. Meet Lindsay (NewSpring Ministries), Suzanne (Communications), Davey (Greenville Students), Howard (Greenville Campus Pastor) and Joshua (web/design goodness). Here are the highlights of our trip today:
- We stopped at Starbucks…twice.
- Jeff Henderson graciously spent time with us before the service answering questions. I love spending time with Jeff. One of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet.
- Steve Fee led worship this morning. The production was incredible. I absolutely loved the combo of lights, motions graphics, camera shots, etc. Fee rocked.
- One of the things that has impressed me both times that I’ve been to Buckhead is how they make it easy for first-time guests to catch up to speed with what’s happening in the service. It’s as if they know guests are going to show up each week.
- There was no bulletin! I’m guessing Buckhead may be the only church in the country that didn’t have a bulletin to pass out this morning. Instead, they just handed out business cards with the web address for their current series.
- We caught up with Los after the service. (In case you’re wondering, we hugged.) I also had the opportunity to meet Mrs. Los and the three little Losses. He married way over his head.
- Before hitting the road to get back for the evening services at NewSpring, we stopped at Maggiano’s for lunch. I had the lasagna.
Thanks, Buckhead crew, for being great hosts. It was a fun visit.
Oh, in case you haven’t heard, multi-site works.
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Tina Harkey
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 am
No, our church http://www.ug-3.com doesn’t have bullentins/handouts either. I’ve asked for invite cards so I can invite people. Hopefully we will get them…or I’m just going to make them myself.
Scott Fillmer
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:08 am
I am looking forward to visiting Buckhead sometime, sounds like a great worship experience.
Isma Martinez
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 am
hi Tony,
This is Isma Martinez from Barcelona, Spain, Europe.
We planted a new church in Sitges (40 min driving South from Barcelona) and the guys from Buckhead are helping us to develop environtments to reach the outsiders instead what almost (i dont’ know any but i hope there’s some church doing it for the outsiders) every church is doing is Spain just trying to keep the insiders. You can see our beta website at http://www.iglesiadevilanova.org.
I’ve been two times at Buckhead Church and i felt like touching heaven, great service, awesome worship, incredible people, and the most important, you can feel love in the air.
Too strange they didn’t have bulletin this week…
Love!
Isma Martinez
Eric Thompson
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Hey Tony,
What are some of the things they did to help first-time guests catch up to speed with what’s happening in the service? Thanks!
Robb
June 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Maggianos rocks, but their lasagna has way too much ricotta cheese! Next time, I HIGHLY recommend getting the Rigatoni D. You’ll never order anything else again!!!
alex mclean
June 7th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I love no bulletin - very green, very now, and no “hey I know it’s last minute, but can you put this in the bulletin for tomorrow?” emails.