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 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
Good morning everyone! It’s 7:15 a.m. and I’m sitting in the lobby of the Hampton Inn in Columbia, SC. Just know that I really love Jesus and students to voluntarily go anywhere near Columbia. I saw plenty of Gamecock stuff at the mall last night. It was sickening.
Yesterday afternoon the students performed for [...]
May 29, 2008
Categories: FBC Student Ministry . Tags: anthony criswell, Chad Cottle, first baptist lagrange, south carolina, warriors mission tour . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
We are leaving this morning to go on the junior high mission tour to Myrtle Beach. 5 days with middle schoolers? To most people, that sounds insane. To us, that’s a good time. I’m looking forward to watching my junior high students minister in South Carolina. With all the Gamecock fnas up there, there’s plenty [...]
May 28, 2008
Categories: FBC Student Ministry, Family . Tags: fbc lagrange, junior high choir tour, Myrtle Beach, youth ministry . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
Before I get to the “meat” of today’s post, I wanted to post a video of our worship team playing Everlasting God last night. I am so blessed to have a faithful team that is not only committed to leading in worship every week, but they are also really good!
Our set [...]
May 22, 2008
Categories: Church, FBC Student Ministry . Tags: fbc lagrange, Thom Rainger, Worship . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
This will probably be the last of my comments on Drive. And this comment may be more directed towards North Point than their Drive Conference. One of the things I love about North Point is their strategy. Everything they do has structure and vision behind it. How many Amerian churches have a strategy for making [...]
May 15, 2008
Categories: Church, FBC Student Ministry . Tags: Andy Stanley, Chris Tomlin, Drive, fbc lagrange, Hillsong United, North Point Community Church, Steve Fee, student ministry, Todd Fields . Author: chadcottle . Comments: Leave a Comment
One of the big takeaways the Drive conference promoted was healthy staff cultures. Do you have a healthy staff culture at your church. Andy said that whenever there is a gap between what you expect from someone and what they actually deliver, you have to choose what you place in that gap. There are only [...]
May 8, 2008
Categories: Church, FBC Student Ministry . Tags: Andy Stanley, Drive Conference, fbc lagrange, Northpoint Community Church, Remote Control, Staff Culture, student ministry . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
Last night we had our Ecuador Share share service. First off, our crowd was off the chain. We had between 250 and 275 people there last night. WOW!
We tried to gear everything around missions last night. Our worship team played “Where The Streets Have No Name” by U2 and we had video footage of the [...]
May 1, 2008
Categories: Church, Ecuador, FBC Student Ministry . Tags: Ecuador, LaGrange, share time, student ministry, U2, Where The Streets Have No Name . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment
Just got home from band practice. It was great! I am really excited about our student worship service this week. Our team that went to Ecuador will share with their fellow students how God worked, how their life has been changed, and why other students should do missions. It will be powerful. I think it [...]
April 28, 2008
Categories: Church, Ecuador, FBC Student Ministry . Tags: dream house, Hillsong United, Kristian Stanfill, Louder Than Creation, Matt Redman, U2, Worship . Author: chadcottle . Comments: 1 Comment