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God and Country Weekend 2009

I am so pumped about this weekend, July 4th is here and we are having God and Country weekend this weekend at C3 Church. I think this year is going to be even more exciting than last year. We are going to have 2 Nascar’s here, Jeff Gordon’s number 24 car and the number 88 car of Dale Earnhardt Jr. plus Miss North Carolina Amanda Watson. There is going to be so much going on here you are not going to want to miss it. We are also using this weekend to partner with the NC National Guard as we collect boxes for Operation We Care, supporting our troops overseas who support our freedom every day Our goal is 2000 Operation We Care boxes and we have given out 1700 so far.  You can come by the church office and pick yours up and bring them this weekend filled with essential items. Go to C3church.com for more info and check out this article in the News and Observer wrote about God and Country weekend, it’s gonna be awesome, hope to see you there!

Operation We Care

Operation We Care is well under way with nearly 1100 boxes already given out.  These boxes, once filled with the suggested items and returned to C3, will be shipped to our National Guard soldiers serving in Iraq & Afghanistan. There is still time to get a box this weekend, fill it with the suggested items and bring it back to C3 by July 4-5 weekend which is also God & Country Weekend! Our prayer is that we will collect 2000 care boxes to send to our National Guard troops. For more information on Operation We Care and the items that are suggested to be placed in the boxes click here.

EXODUS In Concert

It's going to be a great weekend at C3 as we celebrate Father's Day! Clayton Campus will have EXODUS from Liberty University leading worship at all three services. Raleigh Campus will have the mascot WoolEBull from the Durham Bulls Baseball Team and FREE popcorn. We will also be continuing our OnePrayer series as churches around the world partner together and pray the same prayer, "God Is ____________." Mark your calendar and invite a friend to C3 Church this weekend! C3 Clayton services are Saturday at 6pm and Sunday 9:30 and 11:30am. C3 Raleigh services are Sunday 9:00 and 10:30am at the North Hills Stadium 14 Cinema.

After our weekend services EXODUS will be heading down with our C3 Students to lead worship at their summer camp in Myrtle Beach, SC. It’s going to be an awesome week for our students to experience God’s power and get SERIOUSLY RIDICULOUS for Jesus!!

One Prayer Continues...

One Prayer continues this week at C3, Last week we kicked off our One Prayer Series partnering with Churches all over the world uniting and praying the same prayer to God. There are over 1800 churches involved representing an attendance of close to 1 million people. Join us this week as we have special guest speaker Dino Rizzo, joining us through One Prayer as he shares the message, God is Here and Anything Can Happen! We have 3 services at our Clayton Campus, Saturday Nights at 6:00pm, and Sunday's at 9:30 and 11:30am. If you live in Raleigh you could also join us at our C3 Raleigh Campus that meets in North Hills Cinema 14 at 9:00am and 10:30am. It's going to be an Awesome weekend, I hope to see you at one of our services as we continue One Prayer.

Dream Team Recap

This past Friday night we had our Dream Team Party at C3. The Dream Team is an army of volunteers that serve on the ministry teams at C3 to carry out the vision to Expose, Equip and Experience the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was packed out with almost 300 people excited about the Kingdom of God and ready to commit to serving another year! Thanks to everyone who made it out and brought some awesome food! The Staff made a video to thank the Dream Team and remind them that we are all in this together, if you missed it check it out here, and if you want to get plugged in and be a part of the Dream Team, go online and check out the ministry teams here at C3 and send us an e-mail or give us a call and let you know you are interested. I'm so pumped about what God has in store for us in the next year with the Dream Team here at C3. The Best is yet to come!

DREAM TEAM PARTY '09

Martha and I are so excited about tomorrow night's Dream Team Party at 6:30pm in the Worship Center. Our Dream Team is made up of hundreds of volunteers that come together every week and weekend and serve at C3 Church in many different capacities. We are so proud of our volunteers and appreciate you guys so much!

If you are faithfully serving on any Ministry Team at C3 Church you are invited to tomorrow night and it is going to be a BLAST! This will be a potluck style dinner so bring your favorite dish and be ready to have some fun. We will have games, giveaways and you will get to see the C3 Staff like never before.

It's not to late to sign up to attend, just call the church office at (919)934-3551 to RSVP. We can't wait to see you there!

American Idol 2009 - Kris Allen

Just wanted to say Congratulations to Kris Allen, winner of 2009 American Idol
Kris is a worship Leader at New Life Church in Arkansas with Pastor Rick Bezet.
Rick will be here in September of this year for our Accelerate Conference, don't miss it, and check out this awesome video of Kris singing "God of this City"

Kris Allen Singing "God Of This City" {American Idol} from Rick Smith on Vimeo.

Check out Some Great Conferences

Innovate in Lynchburg, VA May 18-20th 2009

Advance 09 in Durham, NC June 4-6th 2009

Accelerate Conference in Clayton, NC September 11-12 2009

Dirt Conference in Little Rock AR November 10-11th 2009

Here is a Promo Video from the Dirt Conference

Reflecting on All Access 09

Last week we had the privilege of hosting All Access 09 ARC conference here at C3.  What an amazing experience as approximately 1500 pastors and church leaders gathered for 3 days of powerful leadership training, workshops and fellowship.  I am so proud of the C3 staff and hundreds of volunteers that helped make it happen.  Here are a few highlights…

•    For the first time ever Live Feed was provided for the entire conference which include behind the scenes interviews and interaction with those online.  We had as many as 260 online during the conference.You will be able to watch the sessions archived on www.allaccessconference.com
•    The conference was recorded in HD and can be seen on God.tv and Daystar network to potentially 55 million homes.  (details and air time tba info) 
•    Every session was powerful. Some of the highlights for me was Ed Young talking about dealing with crazy people.
•    Dino Rizzo shared the three keys to longevity: humility, honesty, honor.
•    Billy Hornsby sharing the vision for the ARC from Joshua 1:1.  We have already planted over 100 churches in the past 8 years and the vision is to plant 2000 churches by 2020.
•    Greg Surratt encouraged us to base our preaching on the simplicity of the gospel of Jesus Christ, remember God has chosen you, and base your hope that we are a part of the winning team!
•    Chris Hodges reminded us to love life, love people and love God.
•    Wednesday morning was powerful and hilarious as Rick Bezet, Joe Champion, Ed Young and Stovall Weems spoke back to back. I can’t remember a time that I laughed that hard for like 3 hours.  Stovall Weems was our closer and brought a powerful and passionate message about frontline leadership… 3 tests:  Understanding pain, submission and identity.
•    43 vendors this year that included Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Feed the Children, Book of Hope, BMC Ferrell and many more.

The results of this conference will be seen in the coming years as the ARC continues to plant life giving churches in the U.S. and around the world.  These are exciting days and I can’t wait to see all that God is going to do.  See you next year in Little Rock at Pastor Rick Bezet’s church!

 

All Access 2009 Live Feed

All Access is here, I am pumped and the atmosphere is electric here at C3. Just wanted to let you know that the ARC All Access Conference  is going to be live online this coming week! Starting tonight we’ll have a live webcast with chat during all the main sessions of the conference I'll be speaking tonight as well as doing an interview at 6:30pm -Other speakers include Ed Young Jr., Rick Bezet, Dino Rizzo, Greg Surratt, Stovall Weems, and many other of my ARC friends.

Plus, between sessions, we’ll have some interviews with the speakers and other ARC pastors and ministry leaders from all over. We’ll have a live twitter feed of tweets including the hashtag #ARCConf, We’ve even got some bloggers lined up to do some live blogging from the sessions.

Don’t miss out - plan on being with us at the ARC All Access Conference live online Monday evening through Wednesday morning. And help spread the word! Whether you’re going to the conference in person or watching online, be sure to include the tag #ARCConf in your tweets, and do all you can to help us get the word out about this great opportunity to be a part of this amazing gathering.

Live conference page (will begin Monday evening by 6:30pm ET): http://www.allaccessconference.com