Articles for tag: Ice Cream Truck

July 4, 2018

Serving Ice Cream to Serve the Community (plus News Briefs)

By Chris Moon Momentum Christian Church in Georgia has found that ice cream is a good way to reach the community. The church takes its ice cream truck into the community to serve various events and found it’s an easy way to meet and serve its neighbors. “It is a fun way for us to serve our community,” the church’s website says. “It is a great way for children to participate in transforming our families as well.” In March, for example, the ice cream truck was on site at a local Easter egg hunt that served special-needs children and their

June 1, 2015

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Community Outreach

Ministry Resource of the Month: Ice Cream

By Michael C. Mack July is National Ice Cream Month. How can you use ice cream in your ministry? Momentum Christian Church in Stockbridge, Georgia, owns an ice cream truck that it uses for all types of ministry. David Powers, who oversees “Out There” ministries and community partnerships, said the truck is a way to build trust and serve in the community, but it also provides the people of Momentum a low-commitment, easy way to serve together. When Momentum launched, lead minister Bart Stone bought the 1988 postal truck off eBay, and the church converted it to serve ice cream.

August 11, 2010

Christian Standard

Church & Ministry Church Planting

Interview with Bart Stone

By Brad Dupray After graduating from Cincinnati (Ohio) Christian University, Bart Stone spent 13 years on staff at Northeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Sensing a call to risk something greater for the gospel, Bart and his wife, Jodi, left the comfort of ministry at Northeast to heed the call of starting a new church in a community south of Atlanta, Georgia. Momentum Christian Church held its first service in January 2007, and has not looked back. The church is now running more than 400 in attendance in a warehouse. Bart and Jodi have two children, 9-year-old Keaton and 4-year-old