Today starts the beginning of the biggest outreach LifeStone Church will do all year! CITY REACH 2010! City Reach is a outreach that is done by all or most of the MCM Network church plants at the same time during the same week of the year. Our goal is to reach out to the entire city of Pittsburgh and show the love of Jesus Christ in relevant and practical ways! This is not only going to be the biggest event we do all year as a church, but I have a feeling it is going to be the funnest event we do. Here is a break down of the week. Since City Reach lasts the entire week (Monday-Sunday), you can imagine that we all are going to spend a lot of time together. Monday night is our prep and prayer night. This is sort of an orientation for our church members and leaders/prayer meeting/stuffing backpacks night. A lot will happen on Monday night in getting everyone prepared and ready for the week of ministry. Tuesday-Thursday is our Jungle Mania Kids program. These nights will be specifically designed for the kids of South Side. Jungle Mania will be a multi-media type event that will happen three days in a row loaded with games, loud music, prizes and most importantly, an opportunity for the kids to make Jesus Christ lord of their life! We are excited to connect and minister to many of the kids from this community during these three awesome nights! Friday night we will host our huge “Running Start Block Party”. This party is going to be bigger than any community family event the South Side has ever seen! The big deal on Friday night is we will be giving away 250 backpacks stuffed with school supplies to the kids of the community! There will also be inflatables, games, food, and so much more! The block party is surely going to be a highlight of the week. Saturday, many people from our church are going to be making phone calls to people who attended City Reach and inviting them to come back to LifeStone Church on Sunday morning. After an event like this, follow up is crucial (as it should be with everything we do), because we want to be able to connect people to our LifeStone Church family on Sunday. Which all of it leads to Sunday morning at LifeStone Church where we will be giving away a Nintendo Wii to a very lucky person. We also have some really neat things planned during the service. I will be speaking on the power of your testimony and we will have 30+ people sharing their testimonies of how God has changed their lives via “Cardboard testimonies”. If you have never seen cardboard testimonies, go to youtube.com and check them out. It is an extremely powerful way to share what God has done in your life. I really am looking forward to connecting with people on Sunday morning who came to City Reach during the week!
As you can see, it is a crazy week, but I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am to partner with God and reach this great city with the love of God! If you have any questions about City Reach or want to get involved, you can contact our City Reach Coordinator and LifeStone Church Outreach Director, Tiffany Hendrix at tiffanyh@lifestonechurch.com. Also, if you want to just come and check it out, go to our website at www.lifestonechurch.com for directions, times, and locations. We hope to see you this week at CITY REACH 2010!!!
















































