Comments on: Are You Open During the Week? http://www.wdavidphillips.com/2008/05/30/are-you-open-during-the-week/ Integrating Missional Thinking, Living, and Culture Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:38:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shawn http://www.wdavidphillips.com/2008/05/30/are-you-open-during-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-8021 Shawn Sat, 31 May 2008 17:15:41 +0000 http://www.wdavidphillips.com/?p=772#comment-8021 I am a member at IBC (10 1/2 years) and have now been on staff for the last 4 1/2 years. I would like to add to the picture of IBC. We not only have all of our common areas open every day of the week from 8:00am to 10:00p, free Wi-Fi, a coffee shop, and more, we also allow the community to use our facility for meetings, dinners, graduations, conference, etc. This is my ministry at IBC. I help provide our facilities for outside use. We are like any other church in that there are many times that our facilities just sit empty. Having so much free space creates a unique opportunity to SERVE our community. We have over 60 outside events on our campus every year. That's over 1 a week. And, it really doesn't take much. It just takes a church to look at their facilities as not just an opportunity to serve their members, regular attenders, or visitors but as venue for connection points to your neighbors. Every church has this service opportunity whether it's High School graduations, MOPS, AA, PTA, Chamber of Commerce meetings, or a class room for continuing education classes. Oh, and did I mention that we don't charge anything above personnel costs? I could go on and on but more than anything it is my hope that more churches make their facilities more open to the public events. The opportunity is too great to miss. I am a member at IBC (10 1/2 years) and have now been on staff for the last 4 1/2 years. I would like to add to the picture of IBC. We not only have all of our common areas open every day of the week from 8:00am to 10:00p, free Wi-Fi, a coffee shop, and more, we also allow the community to use our facility for meetings, dinners, graduations, conference, etc.

This is my ministry at IBC. I help provide our facilities for outside use. We are like any other church in that there are many times that our facilities just sit empty. Having so much free space creates a unique opportunity to SERVE our community.

We have over 60 outside events on our campus every year. That’s over 1 a week. And, it really doesn’t take much. It just takes a church to look at their facilities as not just an opportunity to serve their members, regular attenders, or visitors but as venue for connection points to your neighbors. Every church has this service opportunity whether it’s High School graduations, MOPS, AA, PTA, Chamber of Commerce meetings, or a class room for continuing education classes. Oh, and did I mention that we don’t charge anything above personnel costs?

I could go on and on but more than anything it is my hope that more churches make their facilities more open to the public events. The opportunity is too great to miss.

]]> By: Tim G http://www.wdavidphillips.com/2008/05/30/are-you-open-during-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-8019 Tim G Sat, 31 May 2008 04:34:17 +0000 http://www.wdavidphillips.com/?p=772#comment-8019 Great article and great perspective. We should be and need to be open all week long! Super job! Great article and great perspective. We should be and need to be open all week long!

Super job!

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