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Just Who Do You Think You Are Talking To?
Mark Beeson
In 1986, Mark and Shelia Beeson came to northern Indiana with a dream of planting a church. They had no congregation, no building. But they did have a vision. From its early days, when they met in a movie theater, Granger Community Church has grown to [...]

What’s buzz? What’s worthy? What’s buzz worthy?
Tim Stevens
Tim joined Granger Community Church after serving nearly 10 years in various leadership positions, including executive management with Life Action Ministries. With a desire to make an impact in the local church, he develops the church’s vision and values and helps plan for the future.
He is instrumental in [...]

Breakout 1
Web Strategy
Kem Meyer
Kem draws from more that 14 years experience in corporate communications to help increase the competitive edge of the church today. She uses a non-nonsense approach to lead a team of communications and technology professionals at Granger Community Church. Using best practices, they live to find ways to remove barriers that keep [...]

Is Anybody Listening?
Rob Wegner
Since 1992, Rob has passionately communicated the message of Christ at Granger’s midweek and weekend services and Core Class 401 – the final class in the church membership series. He has taught Purpose-Driven ® Church to church leaders throughout the world, including Sudan, India, and Slovakia. He’s also been a main session [...]

The Granger Experience: By Design
Mark Waltz & Butch Whitmire
Mark began asking who had been to Disney.
When it started, Walt Disney wanted to build a theme park around the Disney characters. Walt asked the team developing it, “when people go back, what photos do we want to see in their photo albums?” What experience do we [...]

Blogging
Tony Morgan & the GCC Bloggers
I just went to this workshop for fun and to learn how to explain blogging to some members of our staff who are toying the idea of starting a blog.
If you are reading this, chances are you know what a blog is, so therefore I won’t post all my notes.
It [...]

We Are Not Alone, Part 1
Mark Batterson
Mark serves as lead pastor of National Community Church (NCC) in Washington DC, which meets in movie theaters throughout the district. NCC targets emerging generations; 73 percent of those who attend are single “twenty-somethings” who live or work on Capitol Hill. Mark enjoys life in DC with his wife [...]

We Are Not Alone, Part 2
Perry Noble
Perry Noble is the founding and senior pastor of one of America’s fastest-growing churches, NewSpring Church in Anderson, South Carolina. What began in his home in 1998 as a weekly Bible study for college students grew from eight people more than 150 in less than two months. From there, [...]

Are We Up to The Challenge?
Mark Beeson
We live in a real world with real hurt and real heartaches and we need people to know that we are real.
Arts have an impact – they do something to us. Art moves us to think about reality.
Good theater is mutually agreed upon suspended disbelief: the actors believe there [...]