THE WELL MONTHLY
November 2008
Mission: Serve our community with the authentic love of Christ one person at a time
STORY OF THE MONTH
Our team bonded together more so than any other time. We spent an entire weekend together getting naked. What? Yeah you can read about it here. I’m humbled that God has continued to bring his team together. He does a far better job creating a team than I can – that’s obvious. We are inching closer to having 20 committed people on Team Well – praise Christ!
WELL UPDATED – SERVING
Parade Cleaning Crew
We once again knocked out a parade together. I’m so thrilled that our team isn’t above getting their hands dirty. People have taken notice of our servant acts of love and it is creating a buzz within our community.
Spaghetti Dinner for Team Claremore
We were given a special opportunity to host a dinner for over 30 runners that had entered the Route 66 Marathon. We partnered with Rogers County Young Prof Organization and it was a fun night of conversations with those of my same interest. Each person left with a Well water bottle. Thank you to all of those on our team that served – you guys rock!
Dickens on the Blvd
A highlight for me was knowing that as my family was away on vacation in Texas during Thanksgiving there wasn’t any worries that our team could handle serving without us. Many huddled together in 38 degree weather as they served food for Claremore’s annual Dickens on the Blvd event. They passed out brochures and little did they know a few weeks later a family would show up to unload our trailers and looking to be involved on Team Well. Because they endured some cold weather – we may have our sound man!
WELL UPDATED – GATHERINGS
This past month we met regularly in the Van Pay garage. It has begun to get a little colder and we’ve had to bring in a heater. It throws off a mean flame but reminds us that we are raw and nothing can stop us from gathering together as Christ followers. We continue to write names on our wall and pray, worship, and tell stories of life change. It is what we are about and what we will always be about.
WELL UPDATED – RELATIONSHIPS
Almost 350 names are listed on “The Wall” in our garage. We are challenging each other to invest, invest, invest, and invest in one person at a time through serving them, loving them, and encouraging them. We pray that one day an invite to a gathering could change their perception of church and cause transformation in their lives.
WELL UPDATED – FINANCES
- We’ve also set up online giving on our website for anyone wanting to give toward our start up costs.
- We’ve currently raised over $30,000 and with the grant will be at 60,000. We still lack $10,000 that we need to raise over the next three months. Anyone wanting to help can give online or send a check to: The Well / P.O. Box 266 / Claremore, OK 74018
- Thank you to Gateway Fellowship Church for giving us an offering of over $2000
WELL UPDATED – TEAM WELL
Like mentioned above we are adding to the team one by one. We just brought on someone to handle sound for us, as well as a young guy to do video editing for us. We have someone that is going to handle Children’s Church temporarily until we find someone permanent.
WELL UPDATED – BUZZ
A pretty cool suprise occurred a week ago Sunday. We opened up the paper to discover an ad on a church meeting in a theater in Ohio. Our Claremore Daily Progress decided to write an article about it and took it a step further – they went ahead and did a promo for The Well and placed our website as a link. I’m so thankful for God’s incredible favor. I’m sure glad he’s orchestrated this and doesn’t need much of our help.
WELL UPDATED – PRAYER REQUESTS
- Please pray against all spiritual warfare for our team and pray we would have the strength and endurance to fight through
- Pray that our team would continue to expand and each one would take ownership
- Pray for us that all purchases would be made and everything would come together over the next month so we can be ready for our next preview gathering.
- Pray for our band. We are still needing musicians that will become apart.
- Pray for continued favor for our finances, wisdom in every decision, and passion for the name of Christ and for the names on “The Wall”
UPCOMING EVENTS
December 13 Christmas Caroling at Wood Manor
December 14 The Well Preview #1
December 18-20 Teaching Team Retreat
December 25 Christmas lunch at the prison
January 11 Preview Gathering #2
