Fwd: EXPLORE Breakfast - Influence & Invites

My fellow servants and brothers in the Lord -

 

I want to personally invite each of you to our Men's Breakfast is Sat. Aug. 30 from 9-11am at the church. 

 

If you haven't already signed up, please let me know if there's a reason you can't make it and I hope to help you try, since I know if you see what we'll be doing, I know it will inspire you guys to be part of this special time in the history of our church.

 

To make it as easy as possible, shoot me an email back and I can sign you up myself.

 

God bless you and keep you in His loving care -

 

Randall

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From: Mike Hardcastle
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: EXPLORE Breakfast - Influence & Invites

Gentlemen,

Most of you were able to get your cards and participate in the distribution efforts this weekend.  I know for some of you, this was a real stretch.  Approaching guys and introducing yourself and encouraging or inviting to the breakfast can be difficult for some.  I hope you were able to take that step and grow, and see what an awesome thing it is to assist others in getting involved.  If you weren't able to give your invites out this weekend, please do so this coming weekend.  We don't want to have any uninvited guys.  If you don't think you can get them out, see Darren or I and we'll assist.

To celebrate your efforts, we had about 80 guys signed up this weekend!  That's AWESOME !  I pray that we will see another 50-100 this next week, to go along with the 50 or so that were registered prior to this weekend, we'll exceed our goal of 200 guys.  Thank you for your leadership and ownership.  This is your church and it will be what you make it.  (with Jesus help, of course!)

This coming weekend, I encourage you to continue the inviting and walking guys over to sign up, even if you don't have cards.  Guys just want to be asked!  This is the last weekend for signups.  (between us, if a guy hasn't signed up, we encourage him to attend if he decides to or suddenly has a break in his schedule.  We'll plan for food for walk ins.  Should anyone ask you.)

Have a fantastic week in the Lord, and be praying for signups, attendance, and for the message that Allen will share.  Also, please be praying about the Retreat.  We need God's provision and guidance and for men to show up in record numbers to have the impact that we want to have in our church and with our men.  There is a real spiritual war going on out there, so prayer is the weapon of choice.

Blessings,

Mike

On 8/13/08 4:42 PM, "Mike Hardcastle" wrote:

Men,

As you know, our Men's Breakfast is Sat. Aug. 30 from 9-11am at the church.  We are calling it EXPLORE, as it will be a peak into our Men's Retreat theme on exploration.

I would like to personally ask each of you to plan to attend.  This is a very important event in the life of our church, and we are praying that God will do something huge in our men and in our church this year, and this is a starting point.

This weekend, we would like to ask you to assist us in inviting 20 guys each to the event.  To aid you in this endeavor, we have created the attached cards and will give each of you 20 to distribute this weekend.

Personal invites are powerful.  Personal influence is powerful.  Each of you can make a huge difference in the success of this event by taking ownership for getting other guys there.  You are investing in their personal and spiritual lives.  There is no telling what God will do in their lives through this.

I would like you to

1. find 20 guys that have not been invited with a card
2. introduce yourself, get their name, and shake
3. ask them if they have been personally invited to the breakfast
4. if yes, ask them if they are going and if they have signed up (if not, they need to immediately)
5. if no, say, I personally want you to come and am giving you this card.  Will you come?  Get them to go sign up.
6. Ask them to then to introduce themselves to 1 person, and give that card to someone who HAS NOT rec'd one (it may take them 2-3 tries), and ask that guy to come and sign up
   

I think you can see the power in this.  We will ultimately invite 500+ guys personally to this event.  We will get other guys in the game, and get guys meeting guys they've never met.  The relational factor just went up 300 fold.

HOW DO YOU GET YOUR CARDS?
Each pastor will have a stack for guys he's identified.  We've identified more guys than we will have stacks, so it's a first come first serve effort.  Come early to get your cards, so you can invite before, during and after services.  Get rid of them before you leave.  Walk the guys over to sign up.  That's the end goal.

Here is your pastor contact for your stack:
Allen – Stephen, Toby, Rico, Patrick, David Nunez
Darren – McConnell, Randall, Achee, Greg A, Beltran, Milan, Thoe, Jim S, Brian B, Brian Scott, Derrick, Damon
Mike – Bones, Brandon, John L, Robert V, G, Steve B, Gary F, Rey, Josh, Cecil, Don Duncan, David Wills, Gabe V

Thanks guys for your leadership.  Please be in prayer for this event and the Men's Retreat.  It's going to ROCK !

Mike