SEA MIST- 180 Meeting Place

Ok, here it is in HI-Def!!!  This animated looking map is much better.  Notice where the ocean front highrise entitled: The Tides is located.  Right behind it to the back left is a little building "Movie Theater".  THATS US!!!  There is a little sign that is in front of the theater entrance.  Just go up the stairs.  I will be so excited, I will probably be standing outside waving you all in so don't worry about it.  We will try to have the 180 sign out front to help too!  Thanks- Stu

180-Degrees Worship Meeting Space

180-Degrees is planning to have a great start to the new year by holding our services at the SEA MIST RESORT.  The map to the right is awfully small, but it is the best I could come up with.  Look at the link above and click on the SEA MIST website to view the map a little bit better (on the maps link at the top of the page.   For all you Myrtle Beacheans, the Sea Mist is located between 12th and 13th Ave. South and Ocean Blvd.  We will be meeting in the "Movie Theater" attached to the high rise right near the oceanfront.  Services will be at the same time as usual, 600-7:30 p.m.  Parking is available on the street and in two parking decks nearby.  HERE WE GO 2011!!!!

Stuart. 

180-Worship Time: 6-7:30 as usual

I have had a lot of questions about our meeting times for this sunday.    Please note that our regular time of 6-7:30 p.m. is still in effect.  Solidifying our location hopefully by Thursday so keep your ear out!  More later-  Stu

Snow!!!

Well, our last meeting at the current facility for church was done, largely because of the Christmas season travel, a snow storm on the East coast and a bit of tricky weather for frozen roads in Myrtle Beach.  We decided to hunker down in Clayton, NC and take advantage of the snow with our family.  Hope you all were able to enjoy some of the snow too.  I laugh because in a time when many presents could have been scarce, the Lord provided a "white Christmas"....something that you just can't buy.  My kid' this have been telling me this is the best Christmas they ever remembered!

Enjoy the video clip of sledding Royall's...ok. the video won't load.  I will work on that tomorrow :)

180-Cancellation

Ok,  Myrtle Beach is a beach....but tonight, our last meeting in Fresh Brewed Coffee House is cancelled due to cold and wet weather.

I've already heard it from a few folks, but I am on snow lock down in N.C. and it is to get a little slippery tonight on the roads.

God bless you all and we will see you in the new year.


Peace-  Stuart

New Facility....Pray in the equipment!!!

Ok guys, Merry Christmas EVE!  Loving being with my family.  Pricie and little Syd on the left goofin off.  Looking forward to being with mom and dad, kids, and some of the family.

Just an update....wanted to keep you all in the loop.  We are not official yet, but have the papers in the mail for me to sign for contract.   It will be a year contract (something we have never done!)  A little concerned about price and time, but for the most part feeling awesome to be in Myrtle Beach and even in the resort area.  Our ministry focus is not so much on tourists, so it will be interesting to be down with the millions of them in the summer.  Our focus continues to be on the community that God has called us to in MB.  We focus on community, reaching unbelievers and then Biblical training (discipleship/life transformation).  One of the things our Sunday services have taken on is a very artsy feel.  One of the values that has developed (not due to my gifts but by the people around me).  In the coffee house everything we needed was provided, so stepping out on our own means getting ahold of the equipment we need.  Michael Tucholski, our Techy put together a needs list for the ministry moving on for 2011.  Please pray over this list and if you know of any of this stuff laying around, please know a little church developing in myrtle beach can make use of it!

Thanks for all your prayers, support and interactions in 2010.  God has been so faithful and so have you all.  I am hoping for more blogging and interaction about all the goings on in 2011, so keep giving me your feedback and thoughts.

See our prayer list for audio/visual below:
Merry Christmas. - Stu

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Equipment	Quantity	Unit Cost	Cost	Notes
2	Stage Wash Flown Lighting Package	1	$1,500.00	$1,500.00	(8) PAR 64 Lights, (8) Clamps, Cabling, (2) Dimmer Packs, Control Board
3	15” Self-Powered Speaker w/Stand	2	$400.00	$800.00	Front of house sound
4	Self-Powered Sub	1	$650.00	$650.00	Front of house sound
5	24 Channel Mixer	1	$350.00	$350.00	Front of house sound
6	15” Self-Powered Speaker	1	$350.00	$350.00	Second monitor speaker for band (We already own one)
7	Wired Microphone with floor stand	3	$50.00	$150.00	Band microphones
8	Podium	1	$200.00	$200.00
9	Wireless LAV Microphone	1	$100.00	$100.00	Pastor
10	8’x8’ Screen w/Skirt	1	$450.00	$450.00
11	Projector Cart w/Skirt	1	$150.00	$150.00
12	LCD Projector				We already own, correct?
13	Music Stands	3	$40.00	$120.00
14	Wireless Remote	1	$50.00	$50.00
15	Video Camera				We already own
16	Tripod	1	$50.00	$50.00
17	Direct Box (PC Sound & Video Camera Audio)	2	$15.00	$30.00
18	Power Cabling	1	$200.00	$200.00	Ball Park
19	XLR Audio Cabling	1	$300.00	$300.00	Ball Park
20	Audio Snake				We already own, correct?
21				$5,450.00
22
23	Children's Space
24	42” LCD TV	1	$400.00	$400.00
25	TV Cart	1	$115.00	$115.00
26	DVD Player	1	$50.00	$50.00
27				$565.00
28
29	Additional House Lights for Theater		TBD
30

Drummer Boy

Sunday night worship at 180 was a sweet fellowship.  Counting down to one more Sunday and we will be in a new venue.  A highlight for the night was Jeremiah on drum for the "little drummer boy" song.  We were sorry to not have Christopher Tucholski with him tonight.  Get well little brother.  The video is a snippet of the song.  Forgive the sound, it is not true to sound in the crowd.  The mics are alot louder in the video.  Have a wonderful holiday season and remember to "play your best for Him!".  Tim Turesco is "helping" JJ and is the majority of the jam out...JJ is helping keep time.

Church Moving On From Coffee House

Well, it has been a terrific run so far at the Fresh Brewed Coffee House.  We have been there for two years and made some great relationships.  After much prayer and a push from circumstances, 180 will be moving into a new location for ministry for 2011. 

We are excited about our new venture as we were coming into FB.  Please keep an eye out for where we will be going as we hope to have a place locked in by Dec. 26th.  January 2nd will be held in a new location!!!

Thanks for keeping us up in your prayers as we have a meeting on Monday @ 1 with a possible venue. 

Peace:  Stuart

Sincerity in Prayer

Two blog posts in one day...feelin it.  Sorry if this offends some, but it is so stinking authentic I had to give it out.  Again from Spurgeoun, Praying Successfully:

"Real prayer is far better than mere ritual because there is meaning in it.  When grace is absent, there is no meaning in ritual.  It is as senseless as a fool's game.  Did you ever stand in a Roman Catholic cathedral and watch the daily service, especially if it happens to be on a holiday?  With the boys in white, and the men in violet, pink, red or black, there are enough performers to entertain a city.  There are those who carry candlesticks, those who carry crosses, those who carry cushions and books, those who ring bells, those who sprinkle water, those who bob their heads, and those who bow their knees.  The whole scene is very strange to look at- very amazing, very amusing, very childish.  One wonders, when he sees it, what it is all about, and what kind of people are really made better by it.  One wonders also what an idea Roman Catholics must have of God if they imagine that He is pleased with such perfomances.  Do you wonder how the Lord endures it?  What must His glorious mind think of it all?  The glorious God cares nothing for pomp and show.  But when you call upon him in the day of trouble and ask Him to deliever you, there is meaning in your groan of anguish.  This is no empty formality.  There is heart in it, is there not?  There is meaning in the sorrowful appeal.  Therefore, God prefers the prayer of a broken heart to the finest service that was ever performed by priests and choirs."  And more: "How we mock God when we do not discern Him as present and do not come near to the Lord Himself!  When the heart or the mind or the soul breaks through itself to get to its God, then God is glorified.  But He is not glorified when we merely perfom ritualistic exercises and forget about Him.  Oh, how real God is to a person who is perishing and feels that only God can save him!  He truly believes that God exists, or else he would not make so passionate a prayer to Him.  When he said his prayers before, he cared little whether God heard or not .  But he genuinely prays now, and God's hearing is his chief concern."  Let us pray real prayers to a REAL GOD!- Stu

Troubled Prayer

It has been a good long while since putting out a post.  Busy, challenged, overwhelmed or whatever, it is good to process some stuff.  In an overwhelming time personally right now.  So much resistance in the reality of life.  Don't get me wrong, not in a bad way but in a good one.  Been learning alot about depending on God.  Running out of what I can do.  Knowing that God brought me to a place where He wants me to be and all I can do is wait.  The Lord is amazing and teaching me about learning how to TOTALLY TRUST HIM.  Here is a great excerpt from the book: Praying Successfully from the Preacher of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon,

"God Himself cannot deliver a person who is not in trouble.  Therefore, it is to some advantage to be in distress, because God can then deliver you.  Even Jesus Christ the Healer of men, cannot heal a person who is not sick.  Therefore, sickness is not an adversity for us, but rather an advantageous opportunity for Christ to heal us....I have sometimes wished that very comfortable Christians, who seem to treat religion as if it were a bed of roses, could have just a little time of "roughing it" and really come into actual difficulties.  A life of ease breeds hosts of falsehoods and pretenses which would soon vanish in the presence of matter-of-fact trials.  Many a man has been converted to God by hunger, weariness, and lonelines, who, when he was a wealthy man, surrounded by frivolous flatterers never thought of God at all.  Many a man on board a ship out on the ocean has learned to pray in the cold chill of an iceberg, or in the horrors of a tidal wave out of which the ship could not rise.  When the mast has gone by the board and every timber has been strained and the ship has seemed doomed, then hearts have begun to pray in sincerity.  God loves sincerity.  When we mean it; when the soul melts in prayer; when we say, 'I must have it or be lost'; when it is no sham, no vain performance but a real heartbreaking, agonizing cry, then God accepts it.  That is why He says, "Call upon me in the day of trouble."  Such a cry is the kind of worship that He cares for, because there is sincerity in it, and this is acceptable with the God of truth." p55.