Buzz Pre-Conference:  The National Community Church Story

Orginally published on Thursday, June 28, 2007 at 6:30 AM
by Todd Rhoades

I really enjoyed my first day at the BUZZ Conference yesterday. It was one of the hottest days of the year yesterday here in DC, but it was a great day. Mark Batterson and his staff shared some of their best practices; and were very candid about things they've tried that didn't work (that, to me, is always refreshing...

Rather than copy some of my own notes from yesterday, I want to send you over to my colleague Stephen Shields blog.  First, here’s some comments Stephen writes about Mark Batterson’s talk:

--NCC has a budget of $2 million per year, yet they give $300,000 every year to missions.

--73% of their folks are single 20somethings and because so many are Capitol Hill interns, they’re typically there only 2 years. NCC has to gauge their discipleship strategy accordingly

--NCC has a coffee house - Ebenezers - that’s in a bldg that was built in 1908. Mark prayed that God would give NCC that building, a former crack house, for 8 years.

--It’s right beside Union Station which is one of the NCC sites. They finally were able to buy the site - over superior competing offers - for the very low price of $325,000. It was worth at least $1,000,000.

--Mark comments, “We grossly underestimate our spiritual authority in prayer.” Mark also says that we should not be afraid to pray ridiculous prayers. He says that we need to believe in something bigger than us so that we can grow into that vision.

--54% of folks who go to the church site that meets on the floor below Ebenezer’s had never gone to any other NCC site.

Here are some of Stephen’s notes on the other comments yesterday from Mark’s Staff at NCC...

Looking forward to today… Tony Morgan, Mark Batterson, Craig Groeschel, and Tim Stevens are up.  I’ll report back in the morning…

Todd

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