As Pastor Aaron starts his sermon series on Gospel Communities and as our Connection Groups start to take on a new look we want to see what we can utilize to keep our communities better informed of the community that exists and its events and gatherings. As you may or may not know, we have a pretty active Twitter community inside of LCC including our own @LifeConnection twitter account which broadcasts all new blog posts including sermons and other news updates.
Part of this gospel community transformation is living life together and gathering around the gospel. We as a LCC family do so much together and those meetings, impromptu gatherings, parties, etc… should be made known so that it can encourage others to join and get deeper into community. There are lots of ways of doing that, but the avenue this post is about is how we are going to use Twitter for this purpose.
Anytime you are hanging out, meeting with, eating with, partying with, discussing with, praying with people (you get the idea) you can tweet about it and include the hashtag #lccgc . That stands for Life Connection Church Gospel Community. Here are a couple of examples if you are confused:
Now, you may be wondering how you are notified of these #lccgc messages. There are a few ways.
1. Life Connection Church Website -> Communities
All of these messages are collected and displayed on our website under the Communities page. This makes an easy viewing area for people who are not Twitter savvy.
2. Join the Twub
Twubs is a site that organizes twitter hash tags. We have 2 twubs that you can join, #lccgc and the more generic #lifeconnection. Stay tuned for how we are planning to use the #lifeconnection hash tag.
3. Save a search for #lccgc and get notifications
There are a ton of different ways of doing this depending on your Twitter app. If you use TweetDeck you can save a search column for #lccgc . You can search for #lccgc on twitter itself and subscribe to the RSS feed for it.
But probably for most of you cellphone but non-iPhone-TweetDeck-using people you’ll want to use the “track” feature of Twitter. This means from your phone you txt a msg to twitter like:
track #lccgc
Now you’ll get notifications anytime a msg appears with that hashtag regardless if you follow that person or not. You probably have a lot of questions, so please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments section and we’ll help you get setup.
If you need someone to set it up for you, then on Sunday make sure to come see me (Kyle Campos) after service and I’ll help you get going.
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