Hitchhiking to Substance

Why such weird preaching pictures?

We just got more great publicity from the Star Tribune!  How cool is that?!  The article was on churches that market themselves through Twitter and Facebook.  Of course, a photograph of me and Substance was randomly put into the article.  Talk about random!  People started calling me last Sunday saying:  ”Pastor… what a cool little promo!”  But I had no idea what they were talking about.

Ironically, I didn’t “tweet” before this article  : )  (Tweeting is the verb for “to twitter”).   But, heck!  If the article is gonna talk about us… I might as well start!   So check out my new Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/PastorPeterHaas.  And in case you don’t know what Twitter is… it’s like a scaled down facebook!  I give periodic updates on all the crazy things I experience throughout the week.  So, if you like to hear random thoughts from me, then subscribe.  And, I’ll tell you what:  I’m gonna be unveiling some really cool leadership stuff in the coming months.  So, if you sign up, you’ll get the tantalizing scoop before anyone else!

But here is the link to the article if you want to check it out!  http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/47963531.html?elr=KArksUUUU

or alternately, you can search the startribune.com site for the June 14th 2009 article “Chapter, verse, text and tweet”

Thank you Star Tribune!

Well, I guess we are an officially “known” church in the Twin Cities.  After all, we just got our first Star Tribune article written!  We got two pretty large pics… one of which was a 8 x 10 spread across the front of the variety section.  Of course, I was uncertain how it would turn out; but, it happens to be a really nice article!

As I was sharing my crazy “coffee-in-my-lap” story in my message last week… I demonstrated how I was scooping iced-coffee out of my nether regions when the Star-trib photographer started taking pictures.  Suddenly, the thought occurred to me that I might actually need to pretend to look more dignified (but, there’s no sense in hiding the truth!)

So, If you’re wanting to read the online version, I’ve pasted the link right here:  http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/30269639.html?elr=KArksUUUU

And, if that doesn’t work, I’ll try to paste another copy down below.

But, isn’t it fun to start getting a reputation in the city?  I mean, we’re a brand new church.  We’re a four year old church — fresh out of our diapers.  I remember when we first planted, I tried to get a $10,000 line of credit at the local bank (to establish our credit and reputation for the future).  At my last church, I had numerous banks begging me to do million dollar loans, so I thought this would be easy.  After being denied, the banker said:  “I’m sorry.  You guys do not look like a very stable investment!”  (I was so shocked and mad!  After all, I was only doing it to establish some credit!!!)  But even still, I had to pick my fragile ego off the ground and look towards the future.  The bottom line was, our organization was too young — and had a weird name!

But doggonit!  We’re in the newspaper now!  So friends, let’s celebrate!  Twin Cities:  Here we come!