Update and Uptown Worship

Catalyst would like to thank everyone who joined us at the Uptown park on Sunday morning, July 1st for a great time of worship. The Catalyst Band played for about an hour after Cobblestone's worship team. We also handed out some information to young people promoting our ministry. Mostly we are trying to direct people to our website, www.catalystoxford.com, to get the gist of what Catalyst is and what we're all about.

However, a couple of people have written in wanting a few more specifics. So here you go...

Catalyst is the young adult ministry of Cobblestone Community Church that will launch this fall (2007). Primarily we will begin with a worship service designed for young adults, including music, prayer, a short message, and other elements that will help us connect with God and one another.

We're waiting to launch for a few reasons. First (and most importantly), since we are a ministry designed for young adults BY young adults, we want to gather as much information from this group as we can. That's why we are asking people to fill out our survey. Though we already have some standards set (music, prayer, message, etc.), we would like to know what helps you connect with God. We want your thoughts on what you would like this ministry to look like.

Second, since we are a ministry for young adults (18-35) we are waiting for the college students to return from summer break.

Finally, the Catalyst creative team is still working to nail down a few important details. Though we have a preliminary meeting space, we don't think it's going to be big enough to hold all of us. So we are working to secure a larger space in Oxford and our meeting time will probably be affected by our location. For example, if we are able to secure meeting space in one of the shops Uptown we will probably have to do so after hours. Our goal is to find a central place that will be easy for students and others in our community to get to. We are open to your suggestions on this as well.

Regarding this last point, part of Catalyst's vision is to do church in a way that's different from what people expect. We'd like to meet at an alternative time (maybe late in the evening or at night).

We have a little bit of time before we officially launch. We are praying for God to provide everything we need, including a larger space and a meeting time that will be conducive to our purposes. We ask you to join us in prayer regarding these things as well.

We will update you as soon as we have more info.

The Catalyst Team