June 25, 2009 • 3:40 pm 0
I have transferred all of my blog posting to our permanent website. The new location of our blog will be www.relevantnc.com/blog.
Please make sure that you change your rss feed if you have it saved.
We will soon have our church website up at www.relevantnc.com.
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June 21, 2009 • 8:00 pm 2
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. One of the greatest joys in my life is be the dad of 3 awesome kids. They are truly a blessing in my life.
Dads, God has given us the great responsibility of raising up a generation of men and women that will follow after Him. We should never take lightly the call of fatherhood. Whether you had a great father figure in your life or not, remember the best example we have is our Heavenly Father. He loves us unconditionally and shows us how we can do that with out kids.
I know that this is your day, but take some time to spend it with the people that matter most to us, our family.
Filed under: Uncategorized , dads, Father's day, God, Jesus
June 20, 2009 • 5:20 pm 0
Over the last couple of weeks I have really seen how the enemy can really be a punk. I knew that going into the ministry was going to bring the heat, and I was kinda prepared for it. What I wasn’t prepared for was how sneaky and conniving Satan is.
Two weeks ago my family and some of our launch team leaders were going to prayer walk the area we are planting Relevant Church. We had it all planned out; we were going to have the kids play at the park while we prayed. As the kids began to play, it wasn’t 5 minutes and we heard crying a screaming. As I ran over to see what was happening, I saw my 7 year old daughter lying on the ground. She had fallen and broken her arm. Prayer walk was obviously cancelled.
Looking back on it, my wife and I were talking about the timing of it all. We both felt like the enemy used my daughter to break up what was going to be a great time of spiritual warfare.
The application to all of this is that we must be ready for whatever the enemy has for us. When we are doing the work of God, Satan is never happy. He will come after you and in my case my family. We are to put on the full armor of God (Eph. 6). This armor protects us, but we also need to be ready to be on the offensive and help protect those around us. The devil is a punk and he will come after you in whatever way he can.
The end of my story did not end at the hospital, I made a stand and went back to the same park the next day and did some warfare. Take that Satan.
Filed under: My Journal , God, Jesus, Relevant Church Charlotte, satan, spiritual warfare
June 19, 2009 • 11:50 pm 0
I just wanted to post something before I go off to bed. It has been a little while since my last post. As I sit here with my eyes closing from another long day, I am reflecting on what God is doing. I am so blessed. God has done so many great things in my life; too many to number.
I am completely overwhelmed at the fact that He has called me into His service. I have a chance to do one of the greatest jobs on the planet. No way do I feel like I deserve this call, but I know that He does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called. Boy do I need the qualifying.
We are only 112 days away from our first preview service at Relevant Church. We have a ton of things to do and very little time to do it in. I know that God is faithful and He will provide all that we need.
So tonight, I will be counting my blessings, not sheep.
Filed under: My Journal , God, god's calling, Jesus, relevant church, Relevant Church Charlotte, Religion, thanksgiving
June 1, 2009 • 8:19 am 0
The best way to start this post is to completely give God the glory for all He does. He is truly the God of all supply. With that being said, I wanted to give a quick update on the status of our “Get Connected” financial campaign. In my last post we told you about the 9 partners we have seen come along side us to help us toward our 40,000 dollar start-up goal.
I am so excited to tell you about how God has blessed us just this past week. We have been meeting with several people to ask them to become a partner of ours, and we have seen one person step up and donate 500 dollars! I told you God was good.
We have also been blessed with someone donating our business card printing, and another 2 people donating 300 dollars.
So far we have seen God move on the hearts of people to get us to 17 partners. These 17 partners have cought the vision of Relevant Church and know that God wants to connect with people in a deep way.
Please continue to pray for Relevant Church as we grow closer to our launch of January 10, 2010.
Blessings
Pastor Kalum
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May 20, 2009 • 12:15 pm 1
I just wanted to speak my peace about something. There have been people talking about the good and bad things about twitter lately. Some people are really hating on it and I just wanted to chime in on my two cents.
First of all, social networking, just like anything else can be used for the wrong reasons. With that being said, I have come to realize that Twitter along with Facebook, are two of the most effective social networking tools available to churches today. (this is only my opinion) My basis on this came from an experience that happened today. I use Twitter to network with other churches and church planters to pass along useful information and to network with like minded people. This morning I had breakfast with a guy that I met via Twitter. This meeting, from my opinion, was a God appointment. There were things shared between us that I needed to hear.
I believe that God can use the social networking tools to His benefit and glory if we use them properly.
This is my two cents. If you want to check me out on Twitter you can follow me here.
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May 14, 2009 • 1:47 pm 1
In my last post I told you about our financial campaign we were beginning. We are calling this campaign the “Get Connected” campaign. The thought was to allow anyone to be a part of what is happening with Relevant Church.
This post is to give a quick update on the progress. We started this just this past Monday 5-12-09 and already we have 9 people committed for $100 each. God is awesome and He continues to blow me away with His provisions.
With that being said, we still need your help. You can be part of advancing the Kingdom of God from wherever you are. We have a start-up equipment budget of $40,000 that we need to meet. Our need is not just dollars, it is also equipment. If you have the ability to donate any equipment on our list, that would go to help us reach our goal.
Some of the major items we are in need of are:
Would you consider becoming a partner? Help Relevant Church connect people to Jesus.
Filed under: Church Planting , budget, church, Church Planting, donations, finances, God, Jesus, partners, relevant church, Relevant Church Charlotte
May 8, 2009 • 12:31 pm 2
Relevant Church is a new, exciting, and diverse community of people that are dedicated to seeing the people of Charlotte NC connected to Jesus. Charlotte, NC is one of the fastest growing cities on the East Coast. The growth numbers are staggering. Our commitment is to the people of this great city. Our desire and passion is to give ourselves fully to the mission of reaching the lost for Jesus. Our hearts are big, Our dreams are bigger, but we know that Our God is the biggest. With all of this being said, we still need YOUR help.
We have 2 goals that you could help us attain. We are calling this financial campaign “Get Connected.” We want you to have an opportunity to partner with us as we connect people to Jesus.
Our first goal is to raise $40,000 for all of the equipment we need to have to launch. You can download a copy of our equipment list to see what we need. Our prayer with this goal is to see 400 people donate $100 each to help us raise the funds. We know that starting a church in the middle of a recession isn’t the smartest thing to do by the world’s standards, but God is calling us to raise up to His standards and to trust in Him.
Our second goal is gather monthly partners. These partners would donate help support Relevant Church in maitaining our monthly budget. Our prayer is to raise $100,000 in yearly support for the first 2 years. Our goal is to be self supporting by year 3. You can download a copy of our first years budget here.
Financial donations are always a blessing, but there may be items on the equipment list that you, your business, or church could donate. Not only will the cash equivalent of these donations count toward our grand total of $40,000, but these donations are also tax deductible.
If you would like to know more about who Relevant Church is you may email us at or you can download a copy of our vision proposal here.
Remember, all of your financial donations are tax deductable. Please send your financial support to
Grace Covenant Church c/o Relevant Church Plant 17301 Statesville Rd Cornelius, NC 28031 “Please mark all payments for Relevant Church Plant.” Feel Free to check us out on Twitter and you can check out Pastor Kalum’s Facebook and Twitter pages here.Filed under: Church Planting, Uncategorized , church, connected, finances, fund raising, God, Jesus, relevant church, support, Vision
April 21, 2009 • 9:24 am 3
The Beatles wrote a song entitled “All You Need Is Love.” Now, I am not sure that they were necessarily pulling their lyrics from Scripture, but what they sang was biblical. Right now I am re-reading Rick Warren’s book Purpose Driven Life. This book is full of mini sermons and life changing thoughts. Mainly because he is pulling all of the concepts right from the Word of God.
I have been reading the chapter entitled “What Matters Most”. This chapter is dealing with love. He opens the chapter with this statement, “Life is all about love.” How true this statement is! I, like many of you, are challenged with the concept of loving all people and seeing them as Christ sees them. There are time when people get under your skin and make it difficult for us to love them. But the reality is, we can be that person as well.
Rick makes this statements in his book have really challenged me today. I am sharing them with you that they may do the same for you.
I believe that how we love others shows the quality of our relationships, and the quality of our relationships shows the quality of our lives.
Quality Relationships=Quality Lives.
Be Blessed and love others as Christ loves you.
Filed under: Uncategorized , Bible, God, Jesus, love, Purpose Driven Life, relationships, Religion, Rick Warren
April 20, 2009 • 12:47 pm 1
Yesterday, our pastor spoke a message based out of Gen 37:3-10 on the story of Joseph and his dreams.
The concept of the message was that everyone has a God-given dream, but some have either not realized it, or it is being hindered by something. How about you? Do you have a dream that God has given you? I am not talking solely about a dream at night, but rather something that God has placed in your heart. It could come from multiple ways; Dream, prophecy, God’s Word, your passions, etc.
The thing that we need to realize about our dreams is that God has placed them in us, and He is working them out. he does not give them to us for us to figure out on our own how to accomplish them. God is always true to His word.
Now the harsh reality that I have been living; the dream does not come true on our time, but on His. Our pastor made this statement “God has to develop the dreamer to live the dream.”
What is God developing in you to live out the dream He has given?
Filed under: My Journal, Uncategorized , Bible, dreams, God, Jesus, Religion
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