Show Us What You're Made Of - Year 2 October 05, 2006

You really blew us away last year with your phenomenally creative Show Us What You're Made Of Contest entries - we had to do it again! Our second annual contest is officially underway. Send us your creative ideas by November 3rd and you could win 2 free tickets to our Creative Church Conference in February and 2 copies of Ed's book The Creative Leader. Get the whole scoop here!

It's a blast seeing how churches throughout the world are pushing the creative envelope to reach their communities, so we'll share the fun with you throughout the month by highlighting some entries here. The ideas have already started to show up in our inbox! Check out the first official entry we received this afternoon from Adam Flynt of Mars Hill Worship Gathering in Jacksonville, Florida:

We have just started Mars Hill about a month ago after two years worth of praying and working.  We launched with over 200 people in worship the first night and have been running strong since.

The idea I'm submitting is for our next series called "Identity".  It is a 5 week study of Psalm 139 about where we find our true identity.  I've attached a picture of our worship guide.  They are actually custom made credit cards with the series information on them.  Each person will get one as they come to worship.  At the end of the series we will make sure everyone has two so that they can sign one and turn it in as a sign they want their true identity in Christ.  They can sign and keep the other one as a reminder.  We hope it will be a great invite tool as well.  We are also thinking about putting a couple bucks on each card at the local coffee shop so people can go after worship and spend some time getting to know each other.

Pretty cool, Adam! Thanks for sharing your idea. We can't wait to hear from the rest of you!