Dave's 4th Sixty Day Sound-off Segment

Update from: Dave Wess Sr. Director, Ministry Operations

Dayspring Church of God Cincinnati, OH 45240

October 2010

Greetings Dayspring Church family and friends in the name of Jesus Christ! As I prepare to close out the fourth round of sixty day activities you may recall I indicated my focus would be on supporting the capital funds campaign in every way possible, and rolling out the new children’s ministry strategy. I praise God and am excited to report a few accomplishments regarding that focus. Some Information you may already know, while other updates may be new information. As a reminder, if you have any questions, concerns, or ideas, please don’t hesitate to contact me at: 513-825-2545 ext 106 or email me at AskDave@dayspringcincy.org

Children’s Ministry: As you recall, I facilitated a strategy session and received an awesome response. I completed my report and forwarded an executive summary to the executive board for review. Since that time God opened up a door of opportunity for Bethann Maxton who performed as Director of Children’s Ministry. Bethann had a life changing experience during a mission’s trip to Brazil and has responded to the call to return to Brazil and explore a potential fulltime mission’s ministry there. Having to react quickly, leadership put a leadership structure in place and made the following structure effective immediately. Sarah Hoover will continue to be the director of nursery; Jessica Ball has agreed to be the director of preschool; and Reverend Michael Thompson has agreed to take on the director of the elementary responsibilities held by Bethann. Because of these immediate changes, I decided to forward my summary information to the three directors so they can review it and prepare for the next steps relative to following up with the meeting participants. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me at: 513-825-2545 ext 106 or email me at AskDave@dayspringcincy.org

Technology: While there is not a lot to report here, thanks to Bethann Maxton we have made progress and using “Skype” technology to connect with Brazil. Our friends in Brazil actually view our service at Dayspring real time. We want to continue using this practice and share services with folks all over that cannot join us in person. If you want to Skype with us please shoot me an email at AskDave@dayspringcincy.org or call me at 513-825-2545 ext. 106

Public Relations & Marketing Communications (PRMC): I just want to again thank the following people for their continued support and plan to get involved in this area. Winky Clements: Thank you for your efforts to keep us informed with your weekly updates. Tracy Payne: Thank you for your efforts to keep our Facebook communications alive and current. Bobbie Griffin: Thank you for your interest in supporting our website development effort. Xuan Stanek: Thank you for you plans to take the Dayspring Blogsite to the next level and beyond. If you are reading this and you have an interest in getting more involved in this and any other ministry at Dayspring shoot me a note at AskDave@dayspringcincy.org . The next plan will be to launch out blogtalk radio account and upload sermons on our website.

New Website: As a reminder our new website is up and running. Be sure to visit http://dayspringweb.org

If you are interested in helping us out with website development send me an email at AskDave@dayspringcincy.org

The place with the Space: The worship team hosted the 3^rd Annual Worship Conference to include Joe Pace as the keynote speaker.

Church Plant Opportunity: The Spirit Life Ministries International services are going well. They are meeting in the Hispanic Chapel.

Outreach: My God is an AWESOME God! I shared in the last update about Nimrod Baguindas and Pastor Tim’s interest to have Nimrod share more time with us. God as answered so many prayers in the outreach arena. Since the last report God has provided so many outreach opportunities for Dayspring. I mentioned earlier about Bethann going to Brazil. While Bethann departed, one of our very own returned home. Erin Luken, who serves in mission under YWAM (Youth with a Mission) and based in Atlanta, GA has responded to the call from God to come and teach the people at Dayspring how to do outreach. Erin has agreed to do outreach training at Dayspring and work with Pastor Andy to help provide leadership over the youth ministry. There have been a few other people that have also come to me and have shared their heart and passion to do outreach work. While we are not planning to bring Nimrod here to work with us for now, Pastor Tim shared the Nimrod feels that God wants him to do ministry in this area of the United States and thinks Dayspring would be a good place to consider as a home base. Pastor Tim also informed me that Nimrod will be traveling through the Cincinnati, Ohio area soon and may stop in to worship with us. We also had a wonderful time and God blessed us as we celebrated Faith in Action Sunday! Last year we had 150 people participate. This year we had over 200 people come out to work with us. Isn’t God Great? Isn’t he AWESOME? If you have any thoughts on this please contact me at: AskDave@dayspringcincy.org or call me at 513-825-2545 ext. 106.

Things you may have heard; things you may hear and things to try and remember:

A. Dayspring Church 2010 Mosaic Ministry Model

Spiritual Development

Focus on Diversity

In/Outreach Invitation to Salvation & Service

B. Sayings:

1. “Catch the VISION” “Join the WORK” and “Make it PERSONAL” often said and led by Pastor Tim from the Pulpit.

2. Dayspring Church, “Where the nations worship” Something we are known for, also said occasionally by the Pastor and will be labeled on our new website.

3. Dayspring Church, “Making Ministry Happen, where the nations worship, in the place with the space, for people like you!” This was used on an ad created for the church and will be included as part of the welcome page on our new website.

4. “Imagine what God can do” “Believe what God can do” These are the concepts and phrases shared and promoted during our Capital Funds Campaign supported by the passage of scripture found in Ephesians 3:20-21.

If you can think of another one or have any questions shoot me a note at AskDave@dayspringcincy.org or call me at 513-825-2545 ext 106.

Dayspring DID YOU KNOW? I know some if not most of you know about the famous NBA superstar that played for the Chicago Bulls and wore the jersey number 23. I even certain you Bible scholars know the well known scripture found in the 23^rd chapter of book of Psalm. But do you the person who was the 23^rd among the first group of people baptized at Dayspring Church at this location? IF you answer is Pam Rearigh, you are absolutely right! I believe Pam was the 23^rd or around the 23^rd person to experience baptism at Dayspring Church. If you have more Dayspring history stories you would like to share shoot me a note at AskDave@dayspringcincy.org

Church Corporate Buzz: I plan to use this section to let you know what I have been hearing as suggestions and ideas for ministry. I want your feedback on the following.

Questions in the May 2010 report	Response to August 2010 questions
Why can’t we receive this updates more frequently? Like on a monthly basis or in the bulletin each week?	I plan to continue using the 60 day cycle to share activity updates. With that said, we will also continue to use other avenues for more frequent updates; such as email updates for Winky, the new blogsite, facebook and the weekly bulletin.
Is the student intern ever coming back to share his gifts with us again?	We certainly enjoyed Myron El while he shared his gift of worship leadership with us. While we may invite Myron to come back and share, there is no definite commitment or certainty of when or if that will happen. We will keep you posted.
Why are these updates so long? So much information!	I plan to consider the content of this update to produce a more manageable amount or reading. There is quite a bit of activity at Dayspring right now. I will do my best to keep everyone well informed with current information.
Regarding the concerts that are being held here. Is there a reason why not too much was shared with the church at large?	So many activities go on here at Dayspring. Thus reason we are viewed as the “place with the space”. As a church we realize the opportunity we have for better communicating our events and are working toward increasing and enhancing our practice of effective advertising and promoting both in the community and internally.
New buzz With all of this campaign talk, can we also have drives and request for the church members to bring all of their recyclable cans so we can raise money that way?	Response will be in next update. Fund raisers of many types add value and can even be a fun way to join in as a team to achieve financial goals. As we move forward with the campaign, our campaign advisors suggest that during the campaign drive we should try to keep to a minimum other fund raising projects. With that said we have turned this over to the children’s ministry and they may consider this approach as a way to get our kids more involved with campaign effort.
To increase our outreach of food to provide those in need, can we periodically ask the church members to bring in can goods and boxed foods to replenish our food pantry.	My research shows that this effort has been done in the past. This will be passed on to the appropriate area to consider.

Over the next sixty days my focus will be on mobilizing men’s ministry, launching blog talk radio, assimilation of new members, and discipleship ministry. If you have any questions feel free to send me a note at AskDave@dayspringcincy.org.

“Recalling Your Personal History Can Be Revitalizing”

Do you have a relationship with God?

“Recalling Your Personal History Can Be Revitalizing”

I have a history with God. He has brought me through many trials and tribulations; hurts and pains. He has also showered me with favor and mountain top experiences. I know God for myself; I believe in Him and trust Him. I really love God and am learning how to love Him even more. I already know he won’t leave me nor forsake me; God has delivered me from my past; and even right now HE is delivering me from my present. The exciting thing is I know HE has already provided for me in my future.

No I don’t have it all together, so don’t get me wrong. This walk; this journey is a process. I’m just trying to be obedient. I have my days; I have situations that I go through that appear to be insurmountable. Illness, suffering relationships, out of work, you name it I have been through it. I have those days when I look into space and just wonder what is next for me. I think things like….

“God, are you sure this is what you want for me?”

“God this doesn’t feel good!”

“Hey God……………., I’m still here!”

“Oh God, can you hear me?”

“Are you listening?”

“Oh yeah, in the name of Jesus………did I forget to say that?”

Then I have to shake myself out of that thinking because that is when doubt creeps in. I can’t go there. When I go there I definitely can’t stay there long. If I go there and stay long, the enemy starts licking his chops; getting ready to eat me alive!

Have you ever been there and done that? You can’t stay there long, right? One thing that helps me work through situations is remembering my past; my past relationship with God, that is. Try it. Try remembering your personal history of events that you may recall experiencing when things were not going so well. Then ask yourself the following five questions. 1. What was your situation? 2. What things occurred that seemed to make matters worse? 3. What took place that gave indication that change or help was on the way? 4. What part did God play in this situation? 5. How was your relationship with God before, during and after you experienced this situation?

Please share with me your response to these questions as it pertains to at least one or a few situations in your past where God brought you through. Also share whether or not recalling that situation has helped you in the present. I am not only very much interested in reading your comments about this blog; I also want to read your answers to these questions.

Remember; if you are working through a challenge in your life and trying to make it through a situation, hopefully this blog and these questions will help you establish an outline of your past as “recalling your personal history can be revitalizing” and may help you think through your current situation.