the elements blog

Continuum [Episode 007]

Bryan Lee — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:01:10 +0000

Let’s keep things going. Now is the time to step up to lead, and find your place in elements…
podcast episode “continuum” 03-19-08[4:24]
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Advance [Episode 006]

Jesse Colburn — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:55:57 +0000

We are moving forward as a community, a vision is developing, teams are forming… we are on the front lines of building and advancing God’s dream for the progressive culture in Tucson. This week Bryan will remind us of the simple basics that define us as followers of Jesus, and hidden in this amazing podcast are some references to scriptures that lay out the fundamentals (ha! i used the word “fundamentals”) of our faith. sit back. listen. enjoy. come.

podcast episode “advance” 03-012-08 [2:57]
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I’m With The Band [Episode 005]

Jesse Colburn — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:55:11 +0000

it’s been a while but we are back from our break from podcasting. things seem to be coming together with teams, and our sunday’s are rolling. it’s been exciting to see things develop. Bryan and i sat down to talk about worship – how we see the bands developing, what we are looking for with the music. although most of that stuff didn’t get on the podcast itself (sadly) we did talk about the opportunity for people to get involved in leading worship, and making that our number one priority right now. thanks for tuning in.

podcast episode “i’m with the band” 03-05-08 [4:38]
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Process [Episode 004]

Jesse Colburn — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:23:05 +0000

Bryan was so wrong about the super bowl wasn’t he? Join us as we take a drive and talk about this fallacious prediction and the new schedule for elements… 5pm leader training, and 6pm community building.

podcast episode “process” 02-06-08 [3:16]
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Structure [Episode 003]

Jesse Colburn — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:55:48 +0000

Bryan got me caught up on last week’s events (i can’t believe i missed the karaoke!!!) and we talked about adding a little more structure, timing and direction to our meetings. nice and short.

sorry for posting this so late… 3 episodes into the podcast and already having technical difficulties. the future is looking great though, since we learn the most through failure.

podcast episode “structure” 01-30-08 [3:26]
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Connecting [Episode 002]

Jesse Colburn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:46:23 +0000

Following last weeks discussions Bryan and i sat down to talk about how the conversation will effect how teams are developing in elements. We talked about the “connectors” who have that gift of seeing how people fit together in a community, and how table leaders will be used.

podcast episode “connecting” 01-23-08 [4:12]
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Teamwork [Episode 001]

Jesse Colburn — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:23:06 +0000

Bryan and I sat down at Starbucks to chat about the teams we need to develop around the elements worship service at Pantano Christian Church. If you would like more information about how you can get involved, or have any questions you can leave a comment here, fill out an online connection card, or call bryan at 906-8192.

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» podcast episode “teamwork” 1-16-08 (5:08)

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Pause

Bryan Lee — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:47:32 +0000

I just want to thank you for your involvement in the Elements gathering. We have been meeting since September 8th. We have experienced some hurdles and God has taught me some pretty really cool things about my self and about building a community. We have realized we need to slow down and put some structure to some things that we overlooked.

I am convinced we need to reach the culture represented in the 20-30 somethings. I think we missed it in how we did the service and when to hold the service (Sat. pm is not the optimum time for the target age group). We must have a gathering time that is consistent and compelling. we have not done that so we need to pause our current plan is to end elements as a regular service the last weekend of the year.

Then our plan is for us to take the next couple months (or more) to re-organized, develop teams and plan a re-launch. It was announced to PCC Live in Glen’s end of the year message called Looking Forward. We have a better chance of re-starting the Elements weekly gathering It will allow us the time needed to re-start properly.

We will be moving to Sun pm meetings starting Jan 6 to begin forming and training the launch team for an March 08 launch. this will allow us to stay on the current weekly teaching and better and less schedule conflicts if we start on Sunday nights
this is a summation from Glen Elliot the lead pastor:

Bottom line – this is not an issue of failure. We took a risk, learned some great lessons, and now re-group to move forward. I always want to honor risk taking along with the honesty of admitting we missed it and figure out what or how to do things differently. We die if we fail to risk. There is no story in total safeness. The gospel story is ALL about risk.

Leveraging

Bryan Lee — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:02:12 +0000

Do you feel like you have control?

Do you feel like you lose control easily?

Do you feel like you need to control the power and influence in your relationships?

This week we discussed how Jesus was the most powerful person on the earth, and how He chose to leverage His power to intentional value to other people in the room.

How do you leverage your power?
Humilty or control?

Facebook and Twitter

Philip Cain — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:47:47 +0000

We’ve created elements groups at two more social networking sites: Twitter, where you can subscribe to our SMS updates, and by popular demand, Facebook, the friend network site almost as popular as MySpace. ;)

If you want to know what’s happening at the elements gathering each week, you can subscribe to our Twitter feed by texting “follow elementspcc” to 40404. If you prefer not to use your phone, you can just visit the Twitter link above and follow the RSS feed. Very soon we will be starting an email listserv for those who don’t want to join the MySpace or Facebook groups and who don’t want to follow the Twitter feed. In any case, it will be easy to stay connected to the elements community.

Also coming soon: digital welcome cards, so you don’t have to touch paper and pencil to let us know you’ve joined us for a gathering.

So many generic profile faces to choose from: “*Quiz* No image, No photo!”