Clings available at Campus Grounds

Thanks to Debbie over at Campus Grounds for sticking one of our 704 clings right where everyone can see it when they walk up to the counter! Not only that, but we’re keeping her supplied with enough so you can pick one up on your next visit. Good coffee, good cling, and the undeniably great feeling that comes with supporting local coffeehouse and a local cause.

- Paul

704 Cling Sighting

It’s late, but I’ve got to post this before I hit the sack (which is a weird saying, because who hits a sack while they sleep and who sleeps on a sack?). If you read my blog at all, then you know that I’ve taken up running over the past 2 months or so, and tonight while I was in the middle of my 3 mile run, I had my first 704 sticker sighting!!

[Okay, let's pause for a second, and clear something up. The first sighting was actually the other day down at the Albemarle Christian Bookstore. Mandy (the better half of the PateWatch) had a sticker in the side window of her car and I snapped a picture of it which turned out horribly - stupid phone camera. If you look closely, you can see the sticker even though it's a bit blurry. So, that would be the first sighting, but the one I'm posting about now is the first really, truly, random and unexpected sighting.]

Now, back to the main reason for posting. As I’m finishing the last uphill climb of my run, I look up and see the back of the car that just passed me and noticed a 704 cling on the back window, just above the third brake light, of the black Honda. I don’t know if it was a Civic or a Honda, but it was proudly displaying a 704 cling and it gave me the lift I needed to knock out the last half mile or so of my run.

By the way, if you’re reading this and you are the driver, post a comment and let us know. You are awesome!!! The first of many sightings to come.

- Paul

Hanging with The Awakening

I’ll post more over on my blog about the great time I had out at Memorial Baptist Church in Norwood on Sunday night, but here I wanted to say “thanks” to all the students who wrote down their FAVE FIVE things they’d love to see in 704. That input is the best we can get. There’s no sense building a youth center if it doesn’t have some of the stuff youth actually want! Some of the suggestions, in no particular order, were:

• Food court
• Laser tag
• Basketball courts
• Recording studio
• Concert hall
• Go carts
• Starbucks
• Very large big mammoth screen TV
• Coffee shop
• Climbing wall
• Theater, and my personal favorite
• Elephant rides

Thanks, again, all you great Awakening-ers, for some awesome ideas.

- Paul

Centerview presentation

Thanks to everyone at Centerview Baptist church for showing up last night for our 704 presentation. I really appreciate the opportunity, and Jennifer and I were pumped to share the vision!  I had to go solo on this one; Paul, the professional communicator, was already booked up to speak to a youth group elsewhere. Aside from a few technical difficulties, the presentation went really well. I’m still trying to get the hang of this! Thanks to Pastor Todd for giving us the evening!

-Phil

A skating state of mind…

One of the things we are most excited about at 704 is the ramp park.  We have a ton of skaters/BMXers in Stanly County with no place to unleash and harness their skills!  With that in mind we are going to create the most awesome ramp park in the area!  http://the704.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/imagine-this/

Here are a couple of companies we will most likely purchase our start-up materials from. 

• American Ramp Company
• Splinter Skate Park

Go check these out, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE A SKATER (boards and inline) or BMX RIDER!!!

If you’re a student and you’re excited about the thought of a kcikin ramp park, we need some help!  We need to know:

• what do you prefer: boarding, inline, or BMX?
• what features would you like to see in a ramp park?
• if we had a skate/bike pro-shop in 704, would you get your gear there?
• what are your favorite skate board gear companies?
• your favorite inline skating companies?
• your favorite BMX companies?
• how often would you come use the ramp park?

The biggest way you can help is SPREAD THE WORD!!!  Skaters of Stanly County, UNITE!!!  Get pumped about what’s coming and make sure everybody rollin around on wheels knows about it!

***Here’s a little secret.  We have a NAME for our ramp park and are working on designing a LOGO for it!  Stay tuned-we’ll be revealing that in the next few months!

-Phil

1st Pres. @ 2nd Pres

Don’t let the title confuse you.  Paul, Wendy, Jennifer and myself made our first 704 presentation at 2nd St. Presbyterian last night.  We had a blast sharing our vision, meeting new people, enlisting our first street team members and getting feedback.

A HUGE thanks to everyone at 2nd Street for listening and to Pastor John for letting us come.  We even got to hang out with his awesome family at Zaxby’s afterwards.  It was an awesome night altogether!

-Phil

Watch a car clinging

Like Phil said in the previous post, please go by the businesses listed and get your cling. Don’t worry - we can always get more made! And make sure to visit the 704 site to get your bad self signed up for updates, or to get on our prayer team. Click the curled page in the upper right corner to sign up!

- Paul

Cling me!

Picked up all 5,000 704 window clings today!  They look awesome too!  Right now you can get your very own at the churches we get around to visit, the Albemarle Christian Bookstore (as of tomorrow), and at Embroidered Specialties (the fine folks who got them made for us). 

They are FREE to you, just make sure you put them on your cars!  They have a supposed super easy to remove adhesive if you decide to take them off (but why???). 

We want to see one on every car in Stanly County!  I spotted the first one on this guy’s sweet little white truck…

We will hopefully have them available at lots of businesses soon, including prayer cards.  Keep an eye on the site for a location where you can get your very own cling, or just ask me or Paul next time you run into us.  We’ll try to have them handy at all times.

-Phil

6/2/2008

Paul and I met this morning to finalize our 704 presentation at 2nd Street Presbyterian Wednesday night.  We are pumped about getting the opportunity to share our vision with local churches, and this will be our first official visit!

Sunday night ( 6/8 ) we get the opportunity to share with the folks at Centerview Baptist.  Thanks Pastor John (2nd St) and Pastor Todd (Centerview) for the chance to come! 

A couple other updates:

• new and improved business cards came in today (If you have a business/office and would like to make 704 cards available on display, let me know and I’ll get you a stack. Thanks!)
• banners (see previous post) will be in tomorrow!  very pumped about these!
• 704 pens and window clings should be in within a matter of days!

By the way, if you aren’t on the official 704 email update list, and you don’t want to stay that way, click HERE!  You will ONLY get updates and news from 704’s progress, and nothing else! 

-Phil

Banners are on order

Just placed the order for 2 of these retractable banners this morning. Hopefully we’ll have them in time for our first 3 trips out since we really got busy with the 704 project: June 4 @ Second Street Pres, and June 8th at Centerview Baptist and Memorial Baptist.

These bad boys are gonna look very nice.

- Paul