One such example is the Extreme
Tour, a cooperative outreach effort involving over 50 bands, over 200 churches
and ministries, and over 20 different record labels. I am blessed to have
recently become a part of this ministry and to be used by God in such an
exciting way. In the coming weeks, I will chronicle the technical and spiritual
elements of preparing the sound teams and equipment to produce such an
event. 

This tour is not about any
one particular church, denomination, or ministry. Rather, it is the effort
of the Body of Christ at large across the Western United States to reach
lost people in their cities. It is a volunteer effort. No monies are paid
to any of the artists, crewmembers, or coordinators of this event. No performance
or production fees are charged for this event. No admission fees are charged
for this event. To put it simply, no monies are generated by this event. 

In order to achieve this,
approximately $40,000.00 worth of time, product, and services is donated
to the event effort per city. This is accomplished through the Extreme
Tour Team. This does not include the value of the services that you, the
local coordinators, usually arrange for in each city. As you can see, this
is a tremendous opportunity for churches to work together on a very large
event without the cost that such an event usually entails.

We praise God for bringing
this together each year, and we thank HIM for allowing us to be a part
of it. We do our best to be good stewards of the provision that God has
given us for these events. Our staff works to ensure that this event is
a MAJOR event for your area. Our staff does this volunteer and there is
no charge for our services. We do this by providing you with top quality
posters and flyers, promo videos, Demo CD's, made for TV commercials, made
for Radio commercials, Internet advertising and event support, and contact
with your local media.

 On the first day, we
endeavor to draw the churches together for a rally of prayer and praise.
Our church events feature Special Music by some of today's top Christian
Recording Artists, a multi-media presentation that has been featured on
CBS, ABC, and FOX affiliates across the nation, and testimony from many
of the members of our tour team. We have with us several speakers who have
spoken at many different functions throughout America including Acquire
The Fire conferences, Youth Conventions, and camps for several different
denominations and ministries. 

The venue for this event
should be somewhere that the members of the church community in your area
feel comfortable. It should be accessible to members of MANY different
churches. This event generally lasts between 4 and 5 hours, with the primary
service lasting two hours. The primary service starts at around 7:00 PM,
generally, and usually goes until about 9:00 PM. 

On the second day, we endeavor
to reach the un-churched in your community. We do this through the Extreme
Tour Festival Event. The venue for this event needs to be a place that
is accessible and non-threatening to the members of the un-churched community
in your city. We require that this event NOT be held at a church. This
venue, ideally, would be a place where un-churched people ALREADY congregate.
This venue should be able to hold 1,000 people MINIMUM 

A partial list of the bands
that will minister with us this year includes the following: PAX 217, Set
Free, Spoken, KJ-52, Adam, Priesthood,  Polarboy, The Wannabes, Puller,
Promise, East West, Orizon, Strange Occurance, Dizmas, Rock and Roll Worship
Circus, Awake, Mile 40, Glimpse, Heath Williamson of Jesse and The Rockers,
Custom Deluxe, Oneceid, Shorthanded, Sub-Seven, Situation and MANY OTHERS
(Possibly even Dogwood and Switchfoot)! 

The tour dates and locations
have already been booked for the summer, but we are already making plans
for next years events. You can find out more about the Extreme Tour at
www.theextremetour.com or if
you would like to host an Extreme Event in the future, please contact me
directly via leon@experiencingworship.com.