So yesterday (November 21st) we launched the Like Me series at our Orillia Campus all about social media and its impact on faith and relationships.

We also told you about our contest to win a trip to Great Wolf Lodge for you and your family (a $500 gift voucher). The draw is open to anyone who is ‘new’ at Connexus during the series.  There is one prize per campus.  Your ballot for the draw is a comment on our blog during the series. Just identify yourself as someone who’s new.

We consider ourselves a learning organization, so while we’re at it, we’d love to pick your brain about how we can continue to get better at accomplishing our mission and realizing our vision.  Our mission as a community is to lead people into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, and our vision is trying to create a church that unchurched people love to attend.  Your response to two question would be so appreciated:

1. What (if anything) made you decide you wanted to come back to Connexus after your first visit (or alternatively, decide you did not want to come back)?
2. Is there anything we could have done that would have made your first visit a better experience?

Any insight you provide would be so helpful.  But if you simply post your name with a comment that says “We just really want to win the trip”, we’ll still enter you.  If you end up posting on another post over the series, don’t worry we’ll enter you as well.  (We really like families around here).  And make sure you identify your campus.  There is a separate blog post for Barrie campus attenders.

Anyway, in the meantime, we just thought we might learn something along the way.

So post away.  We’re listening Orillia!

- Carey

May 22

Often we can talk a good game in the Christian world, but the real issue is who lives a good game? The longer I live my life as a Christ follower, the more I ask why my life doesn't look more like Jesus' life. It's easy to talk compassion and sacrifice, I love it when Christ-followers go out and do it.  I want to foster that kind of atmosphere as a community. So that's why... 

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May 6

Hello again friends. . . So this week I'm back in Atlanta with a number of people from our team.  (Andrew Walker - music dude, Tim Walker - video dude, Rob Meeder - host dude, Carey Nieuwhof - my boss dude)  This week we're attending the Drive Conference at our partner church down here called North Point Community Church.  Since the thing got rolling yesterday they... 

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