The Avenue

Yesterday we had a great worship time @ the Old Louisville coffee shop

We focused in on 2 stories – The Palm Sunday story in John 12 & Nehemiah 2:11 – end of the chapter

Here are the highlights – Launch team you will receive the video this week:

• Nehemiah’s saw the reputation of God was at stake
• Are we really aware of how deeply the name & renown of God is at stake in our culture & how far are we willing to go to repair it
• Nehemiah’s toughest task was not personal sacrifice it was asking others to join him in that sacrifice
• That is the task of our launch team – To share the vision & invite others to join us
• Our fear is that everyone loves the celebration (palm Sunday but no one loves the road to Gethsemane or Calvary)
• Our task is to work hard, to commit to the vision & to do the hard work of becoming the change we wish to see

We are asking the launch team to step it up (here is what we need)

1. Commit to be here every week – Make the Avenue Church your priority – We need you each week because what we are discussing is important for future events
2. Consider joining one of our leadership teams – Teams include – Serve team – University team – Fund raising team – Communications team (use your leadership to help out on these teams)
3. Join a learning community sign ups start next week - (Learning communities will meet on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday nights and one early morning weekday)  They will include a study on basic theology, basic apologetics, a study of Acts and one additional study.  These studies will prepare us to engage the culture we are moving into.
4. Pray for who is going to be invited to your home group – We are asking each launch team member to start a home group in August are you praying over who to invite to the Avenue church & to be a part of this church.
5. Join The Avenue Street Team - We need your help raising the money needed to make our dreams reality.  Street team meetings on Tuesday March 30 5:30 Pm @ offices or April 15th 5:30 PM

Many people have been asking us a simple question How can we help get the word out?

Well here is your chance we are having 2 meetings in the next few weeks for the Avenue street team where we will train you how to get the word out about the good work God is @ the avenue!

I hope you can join us either tomorrow night 3/30 @ 5:30PM @ 1146 S 3rd St or on April 15th @ 5:30PM @ 1146 S 3rd St

Hope you can make it pray with us dream with us & spread the word with us!

Recap March 21, 2010 from Travis Whalen on Vimeo.

Hey friends we recently kicked off the fund raising phase of planting for the Avenue Church.  It is a lot of work and we are learning that it costs a lot of money to plant a church!

We have over 15 dinners coming up in the next few months all over Ohio, Indiana & Kentucky.  If you would like to join us at one let us know & we will make sure you are invited.  We are also in need of 100 people to commit to project 28:19 please consider giving $28.19 a month to join us in making the dream of a church plant in Old Louisville near the University of Louisville reality.

This week we are having 2 events @ Southeast Christian Church that we would like to invite you to…………..

• On Monday night we are meeting @ ED 315 from 6:30 – 8:00pm for desserts snacks & a quick presentation
• On Friday night we are meeting @ the block cafe from 7 to 8:30 for desserts & a quick presentation

Please consider joining us praying with us & giving to the Avenue church!

Check out this story in the Southeast Outlook about the Avenue

If you are interested in more info about the Avenue contact us @ info@avechurch.com

His Work > Our Work – We believe our lives are too small of a thing to give ourselves to.  We have looked for success everywhere but God and found nothing but emptiness.  We believe the true fulfillment is not found in our own ambitions & selfish goals but is found when we fully embrace God’s plan for our lives.

 So what does this mean?

 First we look at what fulfillment in our own ambitions and goals is and what it leads to. Most people find themselves in one of two places when it comes to achieving success. The first is there are some people who achieve everything they set out to do. They get into the school they want, they get the job they want, they get the promotion, the house, the car, and the expense account. But the same story comes up time and time again. After awhile, it stops bringing meaning. The promotion is great but three months later the shine wears off. The new house is amazing but a year later it’s just a house. And people get stuck in a cycle where they keep trying to find meaning in their goals and their goals bring only temporary and short lived relief. After a while people stop believing in fulfillment or they spend their whole life chasing it in different places only to come up empty.

 The second place people find themselves is never achieving their dreams. The school rejects your application. The job doesn’t happen. The loan doesn’t get approved. You buy the ring and she says no. You try for years to have kids and it just doesn’t happen.  And what starts out as frustration and disappoint leads to giving up on life and God. And you wind up feeling empty.

 In both cases, people are left thinking there has to be more to life than this. And there is! God has so much more planned for us than we can ever dream. But a part in everyone’s story that discovers this is that there comes a time when we stop pursuing our own way of life and start pursuing God.                                                 

The Avenue Church is a place where we are committed to making sure God and his work in us and through us are what we focus on. We’ve seen and felt the pain and emptiness from trying to pursue a life of our own goals and plans. We see that we are most fulfilled in life when God is at the center of our hopes and dreams. And so here in Old Louisville and with the people and students of the colleges and universities we want people to discover and embrace what Jesus meant when he said, “I have come to give them life to the fullest.” (John 10:10) Through the partnerships with college students, the outreach to the community, and the building of meaningful lives we exist to create a city where the overflow of God in us changes everything around us and people understand and embrace what life truly is.