Guest Blogger: Larry Hubatka, Creative Pastor

This week we’re sharing some of the things we learned from our Thr3e event earlier this year. Here’s one of the best things I walked away with:

To become all you’re destined for requires sacrifice.

It wasn’t worded exactly like that, but that’s how it came together in my head. If we’re ever going to go where we’ve never been before, it’s going to be hard. Lots of sacrifice along the way. No one gets to go where they’re intended to go without feeling incredibly challenged along the way.

If you did, would it really be that exciting anyway? Probably not. It’s like being handed a gold medal for a race you never ran. You might think that’s great and claim it’s working smarter, not harder. I’d say…lame…and you’re missing the point. I think the process is the point, and what we learn along the way matters. And how we learn it matters.

All that to say, you don’t get to cheat destiny. You don’t get to decide you’re great and then you just are. You become great. You work toward greatness. God wants you to become great. But, you don’t get the badge until you’ve sacrificed along the way.

Don’t miss out on your opportunity to get amped up about what God’s done through this church and how it could help your process at Impart on Oct. 27. And after you register, read this and try to land a new loaded Kindle. Bam.

Guest Blogger: Chunks Corbett

All right, here’s the deal. We’re getting kinda crazy with a giveaway for the people that are choosing to come spend a day with us in late Oct for our Impart event.  If you haven’t heard about the event, this link will catch you up.

Registration for the event is nearly full and with the early bird pricing ending this Friday, we’re expecting it to fill up fast.

So, now on to the contest…if it seems like I’m delaying, I am, this is not a cheap giveaway. Beginning today and running through this Friday, July 31st, we will be randomly selecting a winner of a brand new Kindle loaded with 10 of Pastor Steven’s favorite books.

“How do I win?” Good question. All you have to do is tag #impart in any of your tweets and we will randomly select 1 winner a day for 5 days (that’s 5 loaded Kindles).  You can only win once and we will select the winner every day at 5pm EST from the qualifying tweets of the day. So if you don’t win today keep trying ’til Friday.

You do have to be a paid registrant to the Impart event to qualify so sign up here today. You also have to have a twitter account, so join the revolution or “twitterverse.” And if you don’t know what twitter is then you probably don’t know what a Kindle is either so no hard feelings.

If you do win, you’ll know who you are. Don’t contact us, we’ll contact you. This contest if officially on starting right now. Tweet away.

Guest Blogger: Chunks Corbett

Here is a quick refresher on why we are bringing back the one day event we did in April (THR3E).  A few comments we’ve received:

“The sessions with Pastor Steven…all were amazing.  I also loved that all the staff members were around and available to talk throughout the day. Picking their brains was very beneficial for me.”

“The resources on the jump drive have revolutionized our processes and systems.”

“No comparison…Really.  I believe church leaders and pastors need it raw and real…no fluff.  You exceeded my expectations…”

“Seeing firsthand what a vision is and the cost a leader must endure to see it come to pass has transformed how we do church…”

Impart is in late October but early bird pricing ends in less than 2 weeks. With limited registration, we expect it to fill up before the 31st. Sign up here . And we have a giveaway planned for next week that will make at least 5 people very happy…but you have to be signed up to be eligible. Stay tuned.

Guest Bloggers: Chunks and Larry

IMPART is right around the corner…well, the corner of the next block…actually, it’s a couple blocks away still…but the early bird registration is right around the corner…

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If you’ve missed it up to this point, IMPART is an event to literally impart everything we’ve learned at Elevation over the past 3 and a half years. Pastor Steven will be bringing the heat again for a 1-day event on Oct 27 sharing everything God’s revealed to him about how to reach lost people and grow a church.

Register by clicking here and take advantage of early bird pricing, $500/person up through the end of July. After that, you’ll have to add a pair of Benjamins to register, $700/person after July. We’ve got room for the first 100 people who register, and that’s it. That’s what I said, 100 people, that’s it.

For any questions in the meantime, email us at info@elevationchurch.org or click here to visit the site.

See a hundred of you in October.