About the NC4 Archive Project
Purpose
I. To honor and celebrate Grubby & Trish’s life and ministry as NC4’s spiritual papá and mamá. Theirs will be the inaugurative story officially preserved in the archive, that will go on to include, for those who wish to participate: the stories of every individual and every family who has done life with us; from our pre-history in the late-70s unto this very day. We are asking you (and everyone) to submit personal testimony to how God has used Grubby and Trish to bless you and your family over the years.
II. To engage in a collaborative experiment in the collective writing of our church history. We are inviting everyone to submit their own personal and family stories as members or friends of NC4 over the years. In essence, we are all going to write NC4’s history together.
III. To provide a growing source of information to other NC4 ministries for the ongoing practice of collective testimony as a church body. As Laura Mounts and her team has already been pioneering, under the oversight of the elders and the direction of the pastors: the archive will collect and steward testimony for use by NC4’s videography team and writer’s group to produce media for (i) special occasions (like retirements, etc.), (ii) telling member stories on a relatively routine basis across church life, and (iii) a collectively authored history of NC4 to pass on to future generations. With your help and participation, we will complete a first installment of a video documentary on Grub and Trish’s life and ministry by the time of their official retirement in April.
I. To honor and celebrate Grubby & Trish’s life and ministry as NC4’s spiritual papá and mamá. Theirs will be the inaugurative story officially preserved in the archive, that will go on to include, for those who wish to participate: the stories of every individual and every family who has done life with us; from our pre-history in the late-70s unto this very day. We are asking you (and everyone) to submit personal testimony to how God has used Grubby and Trish to bless you and your family over the years.
II. To engage in a collaborative experiment in the collective writing of our church history. We are inviting everyone to submit their own personal and family stories as members or friends of NC4 over the years. In essence, we are all going to write NC4’s history together.
III. To provide a growing source of information to other NC4 ministries for the ongoing practice of collective testimony as a church body. As Laura Mounts and her team has already been pioneering, under the oversight of the elders and the direction of the pastors: the archive will collect and steward testimony for use by NC4’s videography team and writer’s group to produce media for (i) special occasions (like retirements, etc.), (ii) telling member stories on a relatively routine basis across church life, and (iii) a collectively authored history of NC4 to pass on to future generations. With your help and participation, we will complete a first installment of a video documentary on Grub and Trish’s life and ministry by the time of their official retirement in April.
Proposed Guiding Principles
I. Tell the truth.
II. Take responsibility
Each individual person and family takes responsibility for authoring their own submitted testimony.
III. Tell the truth and take responsibility in love:
To edify, honor, exhort (redemptive testimony, i.e. 'love covers a multitude of sins' 1 Pe 4:8).
The Project
1. The Archive.
a. An archive is basically a repository of information: a collection of records, testimony, stories, pictures, home-video, etc. relevant to the history of a organization.
b. The NC4 archive will receive, evaluate, edit, classify, preserve, and eventually mediate congregational and public access to the information submitted to and collected in it.
c. The archive will collect and preserve the information that (i) the documentary team will use as source material for the production of a film or series on Grub and Trish's ministry, (ii) editors will utilize, in collaboration with NC4 Writer's Group, to collectively write NC4's history, and (iii) the elders and pastoral team will use in the routine conduct of NC4 church life. The archive will provide future leaders, scholars, researchers, and church members source material they can use to carry forth NC4's dna and ethos long after we've all passed to glory.
e. The NC4 archive will in part function like any other organizational archive, call this the 'institutional' dimension of its function. What's unique about the project is envisioning the archive as an active practice, in three dimensions, integrated into church life: (1) when folks give testimonies on Sunday morning, they'll submit written copies to the church archive. Every healing, fulfilled prophecy, conversion, miracle, exhortation, returned prodigal, mission trip happening, baptism, birth, death, marriage, etc., records will be kept, authored by church members themselves (and vetted by the editorial team). (2) It creates a vehicle for housing the autobiographies of NC4 people and families for future generations, for whoever wants to participate; and (3) preserves a constant stream of incoming information for the practice of testimony in the routine conduct of church life.
Immediate Tasks
Submit testimony here in support of a documentary production celebrating Grubby & Trish's life and ministry. For your testimony to be considered for inclusion in this project, please submit by Dec. 20, 2021.
I. Tell the truth.
II. Take responsibility
Each individual person and family takes responsibility for authoring their own submitted testimony.
III. Tell the truth and take responsibility in love:
To edify, honor, exhort (redemptive testimony, i.e. 'love covers a multitude of sins' 1 Pe 4:8).
The Project
1. The Archive.
a. An archive is basically a repository of information: a collection of records, testimony, stories, pictures, home-video, etc. relevant to the history of a organization.
b. The NC4 archive will receive, evaluate, edit, classify, preserve, and eventually mediate congregational and public access to the information submitted to and collected in it.
c. The archive will collect and preserve the information that (i) the documentary team will use as source material for the production of a film or series on Grub and Trish's ministry, (ii) editors will utilize, in collaboration with NC4 Writer's Group, to collectively write NC4's history, and (iii) the elders and pastoral team will use in the routine conduct of NC4 church life. The archive will provide future leaders, scholars, researchers, and church members source material they can use to carry forth NC4's dna and ethos long after we've all passed to glory.
e. The NC4 archive will in part function like any other organizational archive, call this the 'institutional' dimension of its function. What's unique about the project is envisioning the archive as an active practice, in three dimensions, integrated into church life: (1) when folks give testimonies on Sunday morning, they'll submit written copies to the church archive. Every healing, fulfilled prophecy, conversion, miracle, exhortation, returned prodigal, mission trip happening, baptism, birth, death, marriage, etc., records will be kept, authored by church members themselves (and vetted by the editorial team). (2) It creates a vehicle for housing the autobiographies of NC4 people and families for future generations, for whoever wants to participate; and (3) preserves a constant stream of incoming information for the practice of testimony in the routine conduct of church life.
Immediate Tasks
Submit testimony here in support of a documentary production celebrating Grubby & Trish's life and ministry. For your testimony to be considered for inclusion in this project, please submit by Dec. 20, 2021.