Hope Rising
Eastside Christian Church Two years ago today I sat down with a great friend, Gene Appel who has served as the Senior Pastor of 3 mega churches and decided 4 weeks from Easter Sunday to create a breakthrough series titled Hope Rising designed to connect everyone who attended Easter Sunday services. I have always known this could happen on any given Sunday but always dreamed about doing this on an Easter Sunday. Gene had the faith to give it a try and we had the team to make it happen.
The net result was well over 100% of his Easter Sunday attendance launched 400 new groups & over 4000 people were connected into groups in a single Sunday.
The process was simple and transferable to not just do a full blown church campaign but any upcoming sermon series could become the foundation for a professionally written & beautifully designed print curriculum and companion DVD series taught by you and/or your pastor.
All Gene did was share with me his Easter Sunday sermon series and we wrote, designed, produced and printed a DVD curriculum series that aligned with his 5 part sermon series following Easter weekend. We did the entire production in a single day complete with Gene’s teaching sessions, leadership training, video previews and over 30 unique testimonies. The finished product was in a full color, magazine style layout with over 200 congregational photos.
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