It’s really fun having a 2 1/2 year old at Christmas. It’s really fun having a 2 1/2 year old, period. We’ve been decorating our house for Christmas, and Charlie has done a little decorating of his own. Charlie is a big fan of the movie Cars, and he also love stickers. He combined his [...]
December 4, 2008
Categories: Church, Family . Tags: Baby Jesus, Cars, charlie, Manger, Nativity, Stickers . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 3 Comments
I’ve been posting very regularly, but those posts must have been getting lost in cyber space. Just an update on our new service- yesterday was our hiighest attended Sunday yet. We’ve been meeting for about 8 weeks now, and yesterday we had around 540 people. We’ve had 12 people join our church in [...]
November 10, 2008
Categories: Church . Tags: Chad Cottle, Eleven:Eleven, first baptist church, LaGrange . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
This past Sunday I had the awesome opportunity to speak in our new eleven:eleven contemporary service. I spoke on Matthew 5:10. Besides speaking on being a “hero” by being bold in your faith, I also spoke about the heroes that make up the persecuted church. At the end of the message, I mentioned 3 ways that [...]
October 6, 2008
Categories: Church . Tags: bold, heroes, Matthew 5:10, persecuted church, Voice Of The Martyrs . Author: chadcottle . Comments: Leave a Comment
I can’t believe it, but our launch date for the new service is upon us! Here’s the schedule we’re looking at: On September 7, we’ll have a volunteer orientation after church. We’ll feed everybody, see where they want to plug in, and show them what to do. On September 14, we’ll have a “dress rehearsal” [...]
August 26, 2008
Categories: Church . Tags: contemporary service, Eleven:Eleven, fbc lagrange, PDH . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 2 Comments
As you know, we entered J93’s Battle Of The Praise Bands. Yesterday, they made the first cut. I went online to vote for our praise band, and I was SHOCKED. We didnt make it. Lest you think I am just sour grapes, the three bands that I thought were WAY better than us didnt make [...]
July 22, 2008
Categories: Church . Tags: Battle of The Praise Bands, Ivey Media Group, J93 . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
We had an INCREDIBLE day of ministry today. We started the day off with Dunkin’ Donuts (America runs on Dunkin’) and drove about an hour to Rochester, NY. Our students performed at a Teen Challenge and it was amazing. God has blessed our group by allowing them to hear amazing life-change testimonies, and He continued [...]
July 4, 2008
Categories: Church, FBC Student Ministry . Tags: Buffalo, fbc lagrange, Mission Tour, Niagra Falls . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
Our student ministry is blessed with an awesome worship team. We have officially entered J93’s Battle of the Praise Bands. Here’s the deal: Your votes matter! Please click HERE or go to www.j933.com to view our video. After you watch it, you need to leave a comment and let the j93 viewing commuinity know how awesome [...]
June 27, 2008
Categories: Church . Tags: Battle of The Praise Bands, fbc lagrange, J 93.3 . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 3 Comments
Our Wednesday night service was rocking last night! The band was awesome.
We started the “One Prayer” series last night. The series is based around this question: If you could pray one prayer that God would answer for the church at large, what would it be? After a lot of praying, last night I preached that [...]
June 5, 2008
Categories: Church, FBC Student Ministry, Family . Tags: Different, fbc lagrange, One Prayer, PDH, Steven Furtick, student ministry . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
We have an awesome series beginning tonight called One Prayer. One Prayer is a nation-wide thing. Here’s how is works. The permise of the series is, “If you only had one prayer for the church, what would it be?” The first message will be given by me. The next 3 will be presented by 3 [...]
June 4, 2008
Categories: Church, FBC Student Ministry, Family, Fishing . Tags: BC LaGrange student ministry, Chris Tomin, Daughtry, Hillsong United, One Prayer, Steve Fee . Author: chadcottle . Comments: Leave a Comment
It was great this morning to have Dr. Baxter share his vision for the future of our church. Now that everything is public, let me tell you- I’m pumped about the new service. It is EXACTLY what our church needs. I think it will bring a breath of fresh air into our church. I think [...]
May 26, 2008
Categories: Church, Family . Tags: Arrow storage shed, contemporary service, fbc lagrange . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment