Easter Services for all of Orange County

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Apr 212011
 

Easter Sunday is a few days away, on Sunday, that’s the day after Saturday, which is the day after Friday. Easter services on Sunday 4/24 at 9:00am and 11:00am – at the OC Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, California.

A most beautiful thing they’ve done in preparation is the invitational website at www.oceaster.com. For web-savvy users who can appreciate great content & beautiful design as well as web developers who can appreciate lightweight design (without requiring Flash Player), this one is destined to be award-winning, if not already.

Sometimes a community Easter service is done collaboratively by a handful of churches. This isn’t that kind, per se. This un-branded event is hosted by a megachurch called ROCKHARBOR, doing the heavy-lifting with programming and production and the making-it-happen part. (disclosure: it’s my home church.)

Any other megachurch you know of that’d do a public worship service at an 8,500-seat venue without branding it? [update] plus, the event’s printed bulletin lists a dozen or so great churches in Orange and Los Angeles Counties for people to get connected to after Easter.

Big Easter Celebration without church brand

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Apr 112009
 

You’re invited to the celebrate Easter with me and 1,000s of others tomorrow — there’s a huge Easter Celebration tomorrow (Sun 4/12) at the Pacific Amphitheater (OC Fair & Event Center) in Costa Mesa, California. 9:00am and 11:15am. It’s a big deal — the amphitheater has 8,500 seats! Of course the event is free, and hospitality will overflow with donuts, coffee, and bottled water.

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The incognito church is Rock Harbor. The church has estimated weekend attendance of around 5,000 (according to Wikipedia). This un-branding approach does fit their value for “giving ourselves away.”

It is common practice for churches (or any other organization) to host a community event as a way of attracting and inviting people to their church (or organization). At this Easter Celebration, the event website lists more than a dozen churches in the Orange County and Los Angeles areas. Yet, far as I know, only this one church is (primarily?) running the event.

Do you know of any other (large-ish) churches that would do a large-ish event, yet without advertising their church?

I’d be curious what Dawn Nicole Baldwin thinks of this.

[disclosure: Rock Harbor is my home church.]

a round of Spring conferences

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Mar 202008
 

As Holy Week wraps up and culminates with thousands of worship celebrations for Easter, I’ll hit the ground running with a whole slew of conference-attending on my itinerary:

Do say hello if you’re there too!