Kirk Bowman's blog

I’m reading the reports of so many churches from this past Easter Sunday:

Church of the Highlands – Birmingham - 8 years old – 19,404 attendance
Elevation Church – Charlotte - 3 years old – 7,800 attendance
Newspring Church – Anderson – 10 years old - 15,000 attendance
7 Hills Church - Kentucky – 4,500 attendance
Oasis Church – Nashville – 1,465 attendance
City of Grace – Scottsdale – 7,000 attendance
The Rock Church – Asheville – 1,017 attendance (I feel puny!)

These are just a handful of reports. And there are so many other circles of ministry I'm not even in touch with.

And people are predicting the demise of the church in America? Come on. I’m just sayin……

The Masters – a tradition like no other …..

I went to the practice round yesterday with my brother in law. Thanks to my great friend, Andy Banfield, who always helps me out with tickets. Always a treat to see Augusta National and all the great players of the game. Looking forward to watching every bit of The Masters I can this weekend.

For golfers – Spring begins at The Masters

Easter Commercial 2009 from Rock Church on Vimeo.


Easter is one of our very best opportunities to reach people for Christ. We are going all out this year to invite people to our Easter Services.

Here’s our plan:
1. Billboards covering our whole city
2. Over 400 commercials on Fox news. MTV, ESPN, ABC family, USA prime time and even the Golf Channel (it is Master’s week!)
3. An 18,000 piece mailer going out to our area
4. And thousands of personal invite cards

All of this is taking place the 2 week period leading up to Easter

We’re reaching and believing for God to do great things in people’s lives this Easter.

Our creative team is hard at work on making Easter absolutely fantastic. Should be an awesome day!

Pray with us!

JER 29:7 'Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.'

Our church has always been highly spiritual in approach. Not more spiritual than anyone else, mind you. But, we have really focused on worship, prayer, the word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit in church life.

A few years ago, God started speaking to my heart about making Asheville a better place by serving. More practical, hands on, get out there and help with some stuff.

We have not abandoned our emphasis on prayer and worship – but we have added a dimension of practical serving.

I’m glad we have – our church is loving it and doing it. Some people only seem to talk about it. Our guys do it - and I'm so proud of them.

A few weeks back 135 of us spent a Saturday helping out at a school right down the road from us. It was fun. I think it made God happy. That’s always a good thing.