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• ISBN13: 9781590523964
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Product Description
In Creating Community, Andy Stanley and Bill Willits take you on their amazing journey of developing the small group culture at North Point Community Church. They reveal their five key discoveries about what it takes to create a compelling small group ministry. These discoveries have helped connect almost 8,000 people into North Point’s adult small groups.

This is not just another book about community; this is a book about strategy—strategy that builds a small group culture. Creating Community shares clear and simple principles to help people connect into meaningful relationships. The kind God desires for each of us. The kind He uses to change our lives.

Small Groups That Succeed.

Small groups are the key to impacting lives in your church. But a healthy small-group environment—one that fosters meaningful, lasting connections—doesn’t just happen.

So pull up a chair. Let’s talk about how to make it happen.

Bill Willits and bestselling author Andy Stanley share their successful approach, which has resulted in nearly eight thousand adults becoming involved in small groups at North Point Community Church in Atlanta . Simply put, the five principles clearly described here have passed the test.

Put this proven method to work in your ministry and enjoy the tangible results—God’s people doing life TOGETHER.

FRONT FLAP

[Head]:

Small Groups.

Big Change.

“The small-group program at North Point Community Church is not an appendage; it is not a program we tacked on to an existing structure. It is part of our lifestyle. We think groups. We organize groups. We are driven by groups. Creating Community contains our blueprint for success. And I believe it has the potential power to revolutionize your own small-group ministry!” — Andy Stanley

Story Behind the Book

Creating Community flows out of the North Point Community Church story. The message here is not just some new small group program, but reflects a passion lived out and implemented in their church from the very beginning. Even with phenomenal growth, the church has stayed true to its commitment to small groups and has fine-tuned its ministry process into one of the most unique and effective models in churches today. Andy Stanley and Bill Willits have put these successful principles into this new book with the hope and prayer that pastors, churches, and leader with put them into practice.

Creating Community: Five Keys to Building a Small Group Culture

Fishing in the Florida Keys: Islamorada

At the southern most part of the United States, located between the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Florida Bay are the Florida Keys. Not only is this one of the most amazing places to vacation, with breathtaking scenery, sandy beaches, and crystal clear water; but there is an abundance of fish that inhabit the warm waters of the Florida Keys. Here, the enormous variety of fish species ranges from Kingfish to Permit. You can go off shore fishing for the big game such as Tuna and Marlin, but the Keys are also ideal for flat fishing on the Florida Bay for Bonefish or Tarpon. Each of the Keys is acknowledged for a special type of fish. Although the species of fish available may vary in different seasons, there is always something to catch year-round in the Keys.

Islamorada is one of the Upper Keys, and known as the sport fishing capital of the world. There have been more record-breaking fish caught here than anywhere in the world. Unlike anywhere else on the Atlantic Coast, the waters of the Gulf Stream are only a few miles offshore. These waters carry hundreds of different species of fish, as well as all warm water game fish that swims in the Northern hemisphere.

Fly fishing is becoming increasingly popular in Islamorada, catching many different types of fish. Some of the most popular fish caught on fly are Spotted Trout, Blue Marlin, Tarpon, and Bonefish.

You may choose to go offshore fishing in the breathtaking blue-green waters of Islamorada. Here you will find fish such as Sailfish, Dolphin, Marlin, Kingfish, Yellowtail, Wahoo, and Mutton Snapper.

If you fish in the beautiful backcountry bays, you will likely find Redfish, Snook, Sea Trout, Tarpon, Bonefish, Permit, as well as many other fish. The waters here are calmer and shallower than that of the ocean. This allows for the use of flats and poling your boat.

Although you are likely to find most species of fish year round, there are certain seasons when specific fish are most abundant in the area.

Winter

Cobia, Grouper, Kingfish, Sailfish, Tuna, Shark

Spring

Blue Marlin, Dolphin, Snapper, Tarpon, Yellowtail, Wahoo

Summer

Tarpon, Dolphin, Yellowtail, Blue Marlin

Fall

Wahoo, Kingfish, Grouper, Bonefish, Snook

There are many fishing tournaments throughout the year in Islamorada. Some of these tournaments include; Captains take “the Cup”, Islamorada Swordfish Tournament, Islamorada Sailfish Tournament, Take Stock in Children Backcountry Challenge, George Bush Cheeca Lodge Bonefish Tournament, and Hog’s Breath King Mackerel Tournament.

There are hundreds of fishing charters, boat rentals, and guides located at the many marinas, to familiarize you with the best areas to fish. The different fishing charters include backcountry flats fishing, light tackle fishing, party boats, and offshore fishing. Because of the importance of local knowledge, it is best to choose fishing charter captains from locals who are familiar to fishing in the area.

All of the Microsoft Office programs include the use of quick keys. Quick keys are simple short cuts for functions that are done using the ‘Ctrl’ key and a corresponding letter. There are a few quick keys that are fairly well known but there are many more that users do not use that are just as helpful. All quick keys are designed to speed up the process of document creation by eliminating the time that it takes the user to use the mouse. They also usually use a letter that is easy to remember for that quick key function (like using ‘S’ for Save). While the quick keys reviewed in this article are specifically from the Microsoft Office software many are universal and can be used in nearly all Windows based programs.

                Each quick key is listed with the keys necessary to push for the function, its name and a brief description of its meaning or use. Some additional notes may provide extra information for specific programs or functions.

1.       Save [Ctrl+S] – Saves the file. If you have not saved your file yet by the first time you use this quick key, the ‘Save As’ box will appear.

2.       Select All [Ctrl+A] – This will select, or highlight, all content within the document. This also works within form entries on websites.

3.       Copy [Ctrl+C] – Copies the selected content. Usually always used with the Paste quick key.

4.       Paste [Ctrl+V] –Paste’s the copied content into a new location or document after clicking in the desired location.

Note for Excel: If you copy on cell, you can highlight multiple cells and have the copied content pasted into each of the selected cells. This works for text and formulas.

5.       Cut [Ctrl+X] – Cut is exact like ‘Copy’ except for the fact that if removes the original content. It is as if you are literally cutting it from one location and moving it to another, while copy makes a duplicate. (If you are moving content to a new location within the same document it is also possible to select the desired content and click and drag it to its desired location.)

Notes on Cut, Copy & Paste: The letters for Cut and Paste may not seem obvious at first but here is a way to remember them. They are all in order on the key board (X,C,V), Copy is already easy to remember and Paste it right next to it (remember they are almost always used together). Cut is next to Copy in function and location and ‘X’ is similar to the shape of a pair of scissors.

6.       Underline [Ctrl+U] – Underlines selected text.

7.       Italics [Ctrl+I] – Italicizes selected text.

8.       Bold [Ctrl+B] – Bolds selected text.

9.       Undo [Ctrl+Z] – Undoes the most recent action. In some programs, including Microsoft Word, this can be done a number of times consecutively. Undoing the last, second to last, third to last item and so on.

10.   Open [Ctrl+O] – Opens the ‘Open’  box so you can open a new file.

11.   New [Ctrl+N] – Opens a new document within the program that you are currently using.

12.   New Slide[Ctrl+M] – This PowerPoint only quick key will insert a new blank slide into your presentation where you have your cursor.

The quick keys listed here are some of the most commonly used ones. As you may have noticed in just the short list above, we have used every letter in the bottom row of the keyboard plus some. There may actually be a quick key function for each letter on the keyboard. You can open the ‘Help’ section within any program to search for program specific quick keys.