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Mar 20
Wed, 03/20/2013 - 08:05pm |
Written by Banning Liebscher

Jesus Culture is re-locating to the Sacramento area! We are excited about this transition for our ministry and we'd love to share the journey with you through blog updates and videos. Below is a letter from our director, Banning Liebscher that begins to fill in the details and answer some questions you may have. There is also a video you can watch that formally announces our move. As things fall into place and more details become clear, we will continue to update you through these posts. We appreciate your interest and support of our ministry and we invite you to pray with our team as we make this exciting move

Letter from Banning

As many of you may have already heard, Jesus Culture is moving to the Sacramento area! This news was formally announced at our local church Bethel a few weeks ago. (link to the video of Sunday morning announcement)

When we originally announced that Bethel was sending us to Sacramento, we were purposefully vague in some of the details. The purpose of this letter is to begin to fill in details and answer any questions you may have as well as continue to share our heart about the move. Many people have had questions about our move and while we don’t have all of the answers yet, we will begin to fill in details as they develop and unfold by posting regular updates.

We have been so encouraged by all

 
Mar 07
Thu, 03/07/2013 - 05:44pm |
Written by Eric Johnson

 

Check out this letter from the local pastor of Bethel Redding, Eric Johnson, about the Inspire Conference happening in Redding, CA this summer. It's going to be an amazing gathering for young leaders:

Leaders,

I am very excited for INSPIRE and what God is going to do in this time. This is a gathering for leaders in their 20's and 30's that want to be inspired, developed and desire to influence the world with the Kingdom. Whether you're a pastor, business owner, professional athlete, teacher, lawyer or in any other profession, this gathering is for you. We will be pursuing God together as well as taking time to help develop you as leaders and create a place where relationships can be forged. 

We will have 6 leadership sessions during the day that are a half-hour in length where key leadership principles will be taught. The speakers we have lined up for this time are each unique and diverse in how they do life and leadership. Following these leadership sessions will be a half-hour small group time that will help you to understand, apply and assimilate what was taught into your life and leadership. Each small group will have one of our leaders from Bethel that will be helping to facilitate these small groups.

Our heart is to create a place where there is lots of interaction and we can engage with each

 
Feb 05
Tue, 02/05/2013 - 05:05pm |
Written by Jesus Culture

In March, Kim Walker-Smight will be hitting the west coast for an album release tour! The Still Believe Tour runs March 8th - March 17th in various cities along the western U.S. Each night is an evening of worship featuring Derek Johnson as a guest worship leader and then Kim will be sharing her heart and leading an evening of worship with songs from her new album.

 
Jan 24
Thu, 01/24/2013 - 04:25pm |
Written by Andrew Scofield

Have you ever dreamed about seeing your whole campus or city transformed? For 21 days, we are going to introduce you to 21 revivalists who impacted students, schools, and the world in dramatic ways. God uses ordinary people to bring about incredible encounters and outpourings of His Spirit.

For years all over the world, radical believers founded universities in order to raise up Spirit-filled leaders and see the Kingdom of God continue for future generations. At one point in time, Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton trained their students to become ministers and world-class leaders both in society and the Church. Faith in God was once the normal response to the world’s most difficult questions, and universities pointed people to His higher truth as the best answer. God used schools this way in the past—He can do it again.

Follow along with us for 21 days and learn more here

Start with Day 1:

"My conscious is captive to the Word of God."

— Martin Luther

Martin Luther lived in a society much like the one we live in today—it was resistant to truth, and answers to basic questions about God were being challenged. It was in this culture that Luther took a stand for the truth of God’s freedom.

Luther believed that all people had the right and privilege to read and interpret the Word of God for themselves, in their own languages. He translated the Bible into the native language of

 
Dec 18
Tue, 12/18/2012 - 09:55pm |
Written by Becky Johnson

 

Hey friends,

Becky Johnson here. Christmas is in full swing at the Jesus Culture offices and we are happily bouncing around with tons of Christmas cheer. Well, maybe I'm the only one but still... At staff meeting today (which happens every glorious Tuesday) we went around and asked everyone what their favorite Christmas movie is. You can tell a lot about someone by what their favorite holiday movie choice is. Here were ours:

  • The Santa Clause
  • Elf (this was three people's choice!)
  • The Family Stone
  • Home Alone
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  • White Christmas
  • Scrooged
  • The Christmas Carol
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • Die Hard
  • Doctor Who Christmas Specials

What's your favorite Christmas movie?


 
Nov 17
Sat, 11/17/2012 - 05:10am |
Written by Jesus Culture

 

Our new album, Jesus Culture with Martin Smith: Live From New York comes out on Tuesday!!! We've been so excited about this release, we've hardly stopped talking about it. We've given away a free track, showed you behind the album videos, had live Q&A sessions on Twitter with Kim and Chris, done a giveaway and now to celebrate the release of the album we are hosting a live web stream party with the Jesus Culture team and Banning Liebscher!

We want you to tune in and celebrate with us, hear more fun stories about the album, and hear about our team's special Thanksgiving plans! PLUS -- it gets better -- if you ask a question on Twitter with the hashtag #askJesusCulture or ask a question on our Facebook page and we pick your question to answer you win a SIGNED COPY OF THE NEW ALBUM!

Okay, so now you REALLY want to join us, right? Like, you have to put it in your calendar right now! Tuesday November 20th at 11:30am PST. Go to jesusculture.com/ny and the live web stream will be going. Then we ask for your questions, make sure you submit!

What do I do in the mean time???

Get your question in now to @jesusculture with the hashtag #askJesusCulture

Like our Facebook page so you see the post on Tuesday at facebook.com/jesusculture

The stream party is over! You can watch it on youtube

 
Nov 05
Mon, 11/05/2012 - 05:38pm |
Written by Becky Johnson

Encounter is only 2 months away! We are so excited for this conference, which is our annual home church conference we host every year here in Redding, California. This year our speakers are Banning Liebscher, Tom Crandall, and Jude Fouquier and our worship will be with Jesus Culture worship led by Chirs Quilala and Kim Walker-Smith, Kristene DiMarco, Bryan and Katie Torwalt, and Derek Johnson. We are having a special Campus Awakening session that's going to be an interactive and inspiring time for students learning how to be revivlalists on their campus! Make sure you register your group sooner than later, spots fill up quickly for Encounter. We also spent a lot of time thinking about how we can help you mobilize your group to get here so we made posters, postcards, backgrounds and more, all downloadable! Seriously, you need to check these great resources out. You can find a list of nearby hotels that offer discounts for conference attendees as well. Pretty much anything you need to know to get to Jesus Culture Encounter 2013 can be found here. Why do we do this? Because we want to see you there, of course! Let us know if you're coming by shouting out on Twitter with the hashtag #JCEncounter or give us a mention on Facebook. We want to know who is joining us! See you at Encounter, January 11 and 12!

 
Nov 02

Thanks for joining us for Jesus Culture updates over morning coffee.  Here is a list of what we went over:

Thanks for joining us for another round of updates. We will see you next time!

 
Nov 01
Thu, 11/01/2012 - 09:28pm |
Written by Jesus Culture
Last year, God called us to Chicago to empower and release a generation that would bring transformation to our nation and the rest of the world. During this event, we experienced three days of passionate worship, powerful teaching and amazing ministry. On the final night, we stood in awe, as fourteen thousand fully engaged followers of Jesus, spontaneously worshiped Him for almost twenty minutes. The ongoing testimonies from these participants and the tens of thousands who watched online, confirmed to us God’s presence and power was released that day in a phenomenal way to mark a generation.

This Year, God took things to a new level and called us to gather again in two of the most influential cities in the world: New York and Los Angeles.

Our summer began with New York. We had the absolute honor and privilege to partner with Martin Smith, former lead singer for ‘Delirious?’ and someone who has fathered the worship movement of this generation with great impact. For the past few years, the Lord has brought our two paths together and we were thrilled to have him at our Jesus Culture Conference in New York. Our own Chris Quilala and Kim Walker-Smith led the main worship sessions with Martin. The passion and hunger that came forth in those sets was indescribable and we are excited to be releasing this album that captured many of those moments.

We were also joined by Kristene DiMarco, Byran and Katie Torwalt, and Derek