Tuesday was a busy day as we all spread out in our own directions to accomplish our respective tasks for the day as we prepare for the arrival of the rest of the teams.
Advertising & Promotion
The media coordinator met with her counterpart in Greenock and discussed the ongoing advertising campaign and potential media exposure through Christian radio. The meetings and events are already being advertised in the local newspaper, The Greenock Telegraph. Fliers are being distributed throughout the city. Radio spots will be placed this week. Hopefully, music CDs featuring the Times square Church choir will be aired on the two local Christian radio stations to introduce the choir. Press releases have been sent to major regional press. A very good start.
Info Center Decision
The event director spent the day making decisions regarding the set up of the event Info Center at the local Oak Mall. He looked at the various spaces we have available in the mall to house the Info Center. One is very well situated for maximizing traffic, another is close to a partner church that just opened up in the mall to attract more young people. The third is an extremely large space the Info Center would share with the Healing Rooms, a ministry we will be working with during the time here. Many factors were considered, but in the end joining and supporting the Healing Rooms won out. The space is excellent and would easily accomodate both. Our event director must now figure out how to cross market both, furnish and set up the space to draw in the foot traffic. This “mall” ministry promises to be not only effective but fun. The Info Center will introduce the locals to Times square Church, Pastor Carter and the choir as well as our purpose for coming to Greenock. As we stood waiting at a cafe in the center of the mall two local men asked us if we were here for the conference, to which we happily responded that we were. I guess the word is getting around. Praise God!
Hotel Accomodations
Our very resourceful outreach logistics coordinator met with various counterparts here to discuss transportation (faster to walk from the evening meetings back to the hotel, but then again there’s the constant rain, oh well…), food (you will not believe how tricky lunch can be when you have to feed 200+ people in various locations), and checking out the rooms at one of the hotels we are staying at to make sure everyone is placed. No easy task but her countenance never reveals anything but a brilliant smile to every “what about if we did this…” proposed.
Do remember to keep praying for us and our counterparts in Greenock.
