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Rock this City is now here. This past weekend we kicked off a brand new series going, verse-by-verse, through the book of Nehemiah. It will last for the next 4.5 months and during the summer portion, as a church, we will be ‘living the story out’ as we take radical steps to love and help build up the city we live in.

The basic concept is that everyone in the church selects one hour of community service for each month of summer off of the menu of outreach opportunities that we have established. (3 is the minimum but not the maximum–one super hardcore dude picked 30 hours) Once they have made their choices they just take their form to the “Rock this City Center” and get a free RTC shirt that they wear to their three events over the course of the summer.

No big deal right? Wrong. Even though the individual sacrifice is small, (the average american watches 4.5 hours of tv per day–all we are asking for is 3 hours in a period of 3 months) the group yield is huge. If everyone puts their back into it we will have given thousands and thousands of hours to this city in Christ’s name.

As a staff, we have been praying and prepping for this for months, and we believe that God is going to do some straight-up killer stuff in and through this study and initiative. And we were so stoked to see the body respond to the vision enthusiastically. Hundreds of people flocked to the RTC Center at all of our services committing to thousands of hours of service and happily receiving their shirts.

You can read more about Rock this City and be a part of it, even if you live in another part of the country, Rocking your city for Jesus by serving, logging your hours online and sharing your story with us–here.

You can see photos from the launch here.

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