Welcome To Atlanta Where the Playas Play #1- You Work Where?
So I have put this question off long enough.
“Carlos, now where is it that you work?”
I work at like 4 places at once. But really one place. I know. It’s confusing.
So I start this week long series…
Welcome To Atlanta Where the Playas Play. I figure I don’t have a shot of convincing Jeff (sorry Jeff. It’s all I could find. you need a blog man.) to use this as a series title, so I’ll just go ahead and use it on my blog.
If you get bored with this kind of mumbo jumbo, click here. It will be far more interesting to you.
OK. This is really for the West Coasters. My wife thought Andy Stanley was Louie Giglio until 3 months ago. So this is all new for the West Side.
I work at a church. It is called Buckhead Church. Not “The Buckhead Church”. Not “Buckhead Community Church”. Just, Buckhead Church.
It is part of a parent organization called North Point Ministries. There are 3 North Point Ministry campuses and several strategic partners (btw, take a lesson on coding from that link when it comes to FAQ’s). The campuses are Browns Bridge Community Church, North Point Community Church, and Buckhead Church.
Look at the image below.
The circle is the perimeter freeway of Atlanta. It is called I-285. Not “The 285″ as I have been so politely reminded on a daily basis. But simply “I-285″. I know you west coasters are used to giving freeways their own identity. The 91. The 15. The 60. The 101. But not around here. They look at you like you are crazy if you say…
“So I will just shoot up the 85 to the 285 and exit at Lavista Rd. right?”
Trust me. So. I-285 surrounds Atlanta. The dot in the middle of my hand is Buckhead Church. In the “city” The dot on the perimeter, just north of I-285 is North Point Community Church. It is in Alpharetta. That is a city. That would be considered “the suburbs”. It is 20 miles north of Buckhead Church. The dot WAAAY up on my thumb is Browns Bridge Community Church. That is where Tyler works. It is like the suburbs of the suburbs. It is 20 miles north of Alpharetta. He has the same job I do. Only up there. If it looks 3 times as far as North Point is, it is not. I just suck at drawing and I like giving Tyler a hard time. They have the biggest stage in church history. You can land a 747 on it. I’m jealous. OK. Geography lesson over.
Andy Stanley (I wish I had a wiki) is the pastor and main teacher for all 3 campuses.
How does he do that?
Video.
So I work in a 40 million dollar building where thousands of people attend and the teaching is primarily on video?
Yes.
Crazy as it sounds. It works. Not only does it work. But lives are changing every day here at Buckhead Church and I am proud to be part of it.
I watched this Sunday as an HD, life size, preacher delivered a message of conviction and watched as thousands responded. My mouth still hangs open in awe at the effectiveness of this medium.
But the cool thing…on a screen or in the flesh…
Truth is Truth.
Los
And yes. That is Ludacris and Andy Stanley in the same Technorati tag. I like being the first.
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RAIN IT DOWN
Carlos, thanks for giving us Strategic Partners a mention! Just get comfortable, we’ll be annoying you soon enough.
I would like to see a day in the life vid of some Sunday. We’ll give you a little bit to get settled though, how’s next week? =)
And what is it that you do?
That’s tomorrow
i am glad to see that multi-campuses via video teaching works. My church just launched it’s first video campus and God willing, plans to launch more throughout the Central Valley of California.
Yea, I clicked the Youtube video….thanks for that.
some day i will come see this crazy city and its I-285 for myself
theres no way you wrote that on your hand.
Really, there’s no need to even put the I in it…. just 85 & 285.
I noticed how you plugged your old stompin’ ground, Lavista Rd.
Hi Albee.
And I learned it’s not a freeway either, it’s the Interstate.
Actually, just for the record, I’ve recently learned that giving freeways their own identity isn’t a West Coast thang, it’s actually just a SoCal thang. I get laughed at regularly up here in NorCal for using the vernacular. But I keep it going anyways. Keepin true to the roots!
Um, I like your other tattoo better.
my mouth hangs open as well. Not in awe
deep thoughts-285 is a circle around Atlanta, it’s not even an interstate! Us southerners are so tricky!!!
do they also talk in miles rather than minutes?
Cali: “It’s about 30 minutes to Anaheim from Riverside once you hit the 91.”
Atl: “It’s about 30 miles on I-285.”
i knew this.
it’s awesome! churches where unchurched people would want to attend.
SoCalers refer to freeways with the word “the” as a sacrifice to the mighty traffic gods in the hopes of procuring favorable travel times. We gots ta have rules, ‘Lil…
Sounds awesome,
How did you find the job?
Did this require any additional education?
I’d really love to do this type of job; I’m really interested as to how you went about preparing for it.
-cD
not that i didn’t track with the ‘mumbo jumbo’… but the youtube video link you put here doesn’t work