{"id":2321,"date":"2012-11-06T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:32:42","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:32:42","slug":"our-churches-community-covenant-church-lenexa-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2012\/11\/our-churches-community-covenant-church-lenexa-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Churches: Community Covenant Church &#8211; Lenexa, Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We continue our series of posts here on the Worship Connect blog profiling individual Covenant churches. Our purpose is to celebrate God\u2019s work in and through us, to demonstrate the diversity of approaches to worship in the ECC, and to prompt prayer for one another. We are better together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our latest post comes to us from Chris Logan, Pastor of Worship Arts at <a title=\"Community Covenant Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cccks.org\" target=\"_blank\">Community Covenant Church<\/a> in Lenexa, KS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/CCC-Logo1.png\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[2321]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2334\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/CCC-Logo1-1024x384.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/CCC-Logo1-1024x384.png 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/CCC-Logo1-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It\u2019s kind of like trying to pour a concrete foundation in the middle of an earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2331\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/community_covenant_church_001-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/community_covenant_church_001-300x172.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/community_covenant_church_001.jpeg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Culture in the West is changing; the new realities are that 50% of the congregation attend 50% of the time, 25% attend 25% of the time, and a faithful 25% attend 75% of the time or more. The culture in the Kansas City Metro Area is no different, and it\u2019s a challenge for our community. AsBaby Boomers transition into a new era of taking care of aging parents, as Gen-Xers are confronted with the increasing demands of sports for their kids on\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0and as college-aged and young adults migrate away from the Church in droves, we can\u2019t help but notice that the earthquake is not being kind. Given that our entire pastoral staff has changed in the last five years, and given our rather large building, you\u2019d think the deck was stacked against us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Think again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/20120408_9635-sm.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[2321]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2323\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/20120408_9635-sm-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/20120408_9635-sm-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/20120408_9635-sm-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>The people of Community Covenant Church of Lenexa, KS, are learning how to be cultural architects in these new realities. As the missional conversation has taken ahold of us, we have been well-positioned to become missionaries to our local contexts because we already think of ourselves as a big family: our (rather talented) choir is the biggest small group in our church; our pastoral team, while all new to the Covenant (and all in orientation at the same time this last year), have become good friends with a deep respect for the diverse gifts the others bring to the table; most of our volunteer base is, while busy, very dedicated to each other and the community they serve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It\u2019s a good place in which to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While there are the inevitable cultural conflicts, we recognize that these are what come in the midst of such a diverse community. Ethnically we are fairly homogenous (though this does tend to reflect our context), but in so many other ways we reflect a wide variety of ages, socioeconomic statuses, political affiliations, family backgrounds, and of course, artistic preferences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2325 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_1234-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_1234-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_1234-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We hold two different worship gatherings on Sunday morning that sandwich a Christian Formation hour (the new fancy term for \u201cSunday School\u201d). The traditional gathering at 8:45 incorporates hymnody (led by voice, choir, organ and piano), liturgy, and tends towards a more conservative, reserved, formal flavor. Many of the regular attenders here reflect the heritage of our church family, families (now grandparents, parents, and children) who have been attending since the very beginning of our charter. The modern gathering at 11:00 is in many ways opposite in flavor; the music is generally upbeat, led by a band (that changes weekly; sometimes by a single guitar and voice, but more often by a full team with electric, acoustic, bass, multiple keyboards, drums, violin, and flute).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_0413.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[2321]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2326\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_0413-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_0413-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_0413-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The sanctuary itself was built eight years ago with the traditional gathering in mind, incorporating stained glass, pews, and a full choir loft. Modular lighting is very valuable to us, as it gives us the ability to create a more colorful environment for our modern gathering, but maintain the traditional look of the sanctuary for the early gathering. It also gives us more flexibility when the space is used by many outside groups, but also by the preschool we run and by the College Prep school that utilizes our building all five days of the work week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Through all of this, what has been most valuable has been our processing through Reggie Joiner\u2019s book <em><a title=\"Think Orange\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2012\/05\/orange\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Orange<\/a><\/em> with our staff and many in our council. To sum it up, when the light of the gospel in the Church (yellow) is combined with the loving hearts of families (red) we get an orange partnership. This has led us to retask one of our pastors to Family Ministry, to renovate our children&#8217;s wing to better reflect the culture and needs of the children themselves, and to regularly incorporate the full family of Jesus into our worship gatherings (\u201cOrange\u00a0Sundays&#8221;\u00a0 or \u201cFamily\u00a0Sundays&#8221;\u00a0) and into events throughout the year such as our\u00a0\u201cIlluminate\u201d event at Christmas, our \u201cFall Light Festival\u201d at Halloween, and our Tenebrae and Easter Gatherings. Both incorporate all generations &#8211; the full family &#8211; in diverse ways, such as fellowship, worship\u00a0through\u00a0song, games, artistic presentations, and of course, food.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2327\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_8858-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_8858-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2012\/10\/IMG_8858-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lots and lots of food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We are still learning. Our pastors have weekly meetings to discuss the ongoing project of casting (and re-casting) the compelling vision God is slowly revealing to us; we\u2019re experimenting with meeting schedules, new ministry formats, and church leadership models; we\u2019re reading &#8211; a lot &#8211; and we\u2019ve joined a cohort of other pastors in the KC Metro area who are in the same boat as we are. I\u2019m often overwhelmed thinking about the enormity of the task before us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But as I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2012\/10\/restore\/\" target=\"_blank\">written before<\/a>, God is doing a mighty work among us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And I, for one, am thrilled to be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2321&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our series of posts here on the Worship Connect blog profiling individual Covenant churches. Our purpose is to celebrate God\u2019s work in and through us, to demonstrate the diversity of approaches to worship in the ECC, and to prompt prayer for one another. We are better together. Our latest post comes to us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14503,83,15,14,40,14507,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-better-together","category-church-history","category-intergenerational","category-local-church","category-missional","category-our-churches","category-vocation-and-call"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Our Churches: Community Covenant Church - Lenexa, Kansas - Worship Connect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/wc\/2012\/11\/our-churches-community-covenant-church-lenexa-kansas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our Churches: Community Covenant Church - Lenexa, Kansas - Worship Connect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We continue our series of posts here on the Worship Connect blog profiling individual Covenant churches. 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Though he was born and raised in Rochester NY, Chris is a third-culture child, a dual citizen of the United States and Switzerland. In addition to voice and guitar, he is also plays French Horn and Saxophone. His wife Liz is also a musician, and they have been married since 2004. They have three kids, a daughter named Aurora (Rori), a son named Caedmon (CJ), and a daughter named Brielle (Bria). He graduated with a self-designed B.A. in Music in Christianity from the University of Rochester, studying and writing on the interactions between music and the Christian faith in the postmodern paradigm. He received his M.A. from Asbury Theological Seminary in 2008 in Intercultural Studies, an Anthropology and Sociology degree that specializes in Christian Missions. He\u2019s been a missionary in Australia, India, Mexico, and Haiti, and has served as a worship pastor previously in Mitchell SD and Lenexa KS. His passion is to see worship become a missional endeavor, that the Church understand their faith in the broader context of the imitation of God and participation in the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than as an event on Sunday mornings. He hopes one day to do a PhD in Anthropology, studying how our worship practices ought to be understood in relationship to the changing cultural landscape of the Western world. Chris is also a photographer, and enjoys days out with his family and camera. He loves to read, to scuba dive, and to kayak. 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