Posts by Rich Barrett

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Last summer, Adam, Kevin, and I took a little trip down to Daytona to check out BigStuf Camp. Now, if you’ve ever had any experience with the creative minds behind these camps, you know we were expecting a lot. We knew there’d be great speakers (anybody ever heard of Andy Stanley?), crazy fun stuff, and…

This week Andy Stanley will deliver part 2 of Canvas. We live in a world created by God and designed to reflect His glory. Everything, including our lives, are tapestries created by him. He is working on the canvas of our lives so we can bring glory to Him. That is our sole purpose here…

Whoa! May sure snuck up on us, didn’t it? I can’t believe that in just a little more than two weeks the Access team will be heading to Atlanta for DRIVE ’08. You are so gonna want to be there. You can meet this guy and this guy and this girl and this guy and…

This Sunday, Access launches a new environment. We’re so excited about this! We don’t launch new environments very often, and not without careful planning. This environment is super-cool not because of what we’re doing, but because of who is coming. Xtreme is for middle- and high-school students (together for large-group teaching but divided for small…

Sometimes folks ask me what we do on the Sundays we don’t “have church” at Access. My short answer is that we are busy “being the church.” More on that in some posts next week, about some great things we’ve got planned for our “off” Sundays this summer. But tonight I wanted to show you…

I’ve spent the better part of the day studying the financials for Access Church, and I am so grateful! When Access began, there were just a few families in Jacksonville that were supporting Access with their God-given dollars. We were largely dependent on visionary giving from those in Atlanta with a passion for creating environments…

The warm summer weather is here, and with that, lots of outdoor Sunday activities. Access recognizes the need to adjust service times accordingly, and beginning June 1, our services will be held at 9:00 & 10:30am. Waumba Land (birth—age 5) will be open at both hours. UpStreet (grades K-5) will be at 10:30am and Xtreme…

We wanted to communicate how excited we are about launching Xtreme in just 10 days. This spot comes close. Turn up the volume on your computer…

Some of you still haven’t registered for DRIVE! Are you crazy? Don’t you know it’s right around the corner on May 5?!?! Maybe it’s because you still have some unanswered questions. Tripp and Tyler got a hold of a microphone at a recent staff meeting and asked Andy the same questions that are probably on…