The Ideas Post

~Announcements~

Ok, so now that I know that there are people out there, checking this blog, I think it is time to get this thing up and running. Thank you so much for joining up! I really feel like God is doing something great in this generation, and I would love for us, the young people of Grace Community Church, to be apart of it. I am so excited!

So what's the point of this website? While I kinda laid this out in my first post, I'll try to make a little bit more sense.

I would love for us gracers to continue to form a cohesive group, where we can really help each other with accountability, discussion and application, and having fun. This is not my blog. The point is not for me to post and then all of you comment on it, saying how great what I said was. The point is for us to make this website our own. Bring up whatever questions, thoughts or discussions you have, prayer requests, struggles with sin, whatever. That's why I am allowing people other than just me to post. I am looking for these people that I am allowing to post to lead the discussion!

A second purpose is help us get organized. As more people join (hopefully), I would like to take ideas for events and get-togethers and post them here, instead of sending church-wide emails. Not everything we do has to involve everyone in the church! However, if you are heading to go see a baseball game or a movie and you want to invite anyone to come, post here. That way, we are getting time for fellowship and fun, but it's not a huge event, and there's no controversy about age groups or people not getting invited, etc.

Whew! Well, those are my plans for this blog. What would you like to see? Any suggestions are VERY welcome. Thanks for being apart of this, I know this is just the start of what God is doing.

- Charlie

Anyone out there?

~Announcments~

Since I have not seen too much activity here as of yet, I am wondering if there are any technical difficulties with this site. If you are able to get here, and even if you don't want to post, reply here stating that you've been here. Surely someone from out there in cyberworld knows of this humble blog's exisitence!

Some problems you are experiencing may have to do with being a Blogger member. If you have a Gmail account, you already are a member. If not, it is easy to sign up, just go here.

Any other problems, just email me- charlie.mulligan@gmail.com

Contributors

If you are interested in writing articles and really contributing to this blog, go ahead and reply to this post with your email address. I'll send you an email so that you can write stuff on here!

Welcome to the Mooresville-Kannapolis Counterculture!

The point of this blog is to help all of us discuss and apply what we learned at the Do Hard Things conference and to think of new ways in which we can grow and encourage each other. It will also serve as the center of everything we're doing youth-wise at Grace Community Church (I hope).

The more everyone posts comments and articles, the more useful this will be, so be active- bring your ideas- for ways to apply doing hard things, for ways to encourage, for things to do. I'm game for anything, and if you have a well-thought out plan, we will try to make sure it happens!

Here are my plans upcoming:
- Do Hard Things book study, for everyone who is interested. I think we'll go at 2-3 chapters a week pace. The discussion can take place here on the blog.
- Discussion of new topics that Alex and Brett post on their blog.
- Whatever else anyone wants to talk about!