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The Real Thanksgiving to God - Are We Listening?

11/26/2014

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The first Thanksgiving to God in the Calvinist tradition in Plymouth Colony was actually celebrated during the summer of 1623, when the colonists declared a Thanksgiving holiday after their crops were saved by much-needed rainfall.

Over the past few days, I have been thinking about the large Thanksgiving to God we are going to exercise on Thursday.  Our family is joining with my daughter's in-laws and our dear friends where approximately 40 people will gather in a home to celebrate this wonderful American tradition we all, so much, look forward to.  My thoughts have, of course, been how to honor our Lord God and His Son, Jesus Christ and how to gain the attention of the youngsters to the real Thanksgiving to God that I knew was the original intent of our forebears.

So, I Googled it, and, I am very proud to say that I found some very interesting information not only for the children, but, as a sober reminder to we American adults that have been hoodwinked into thinking Thanksgiving is about food, football, fun and Fridays that are black.

The primary article I read and took portions from is published by "A Puritan's Mind - The First Thanksgiving".  This article is a must read for those who are as inquisitive as me relative to finding the truth about so many wonderful things we think we know, especially when it comes to the faith of our Founders and the great majority of our countrymen throughout the two plus centuries our great country has been in existence.  It highlights the wonderful truths similar to the first statement above; "The first Thanksgiving to God...." and then goes through a chronological listing and expansion on the official "Proclamations" made by our forebears, our leaders and, finally, our Presidents.

I love how the article reminds us of what most of us "Baby-Boomers" were taught in elementary school of how the Puritans were a religiously afflicted people seeking after their freedom to worship in accordance with their Biblical beliefs.  How a document exists to this day called, the Mayflower Compact, that was signed by the members of the first group to disembark in the Plymouth region of what has become the state of Massachusetts.  How this document became our original divine manifestation of our commitment to the Biblical God and Jesus Christ, His Son and our Redeemer.  I love it when we find real evidence of our Thanksgiving to God initiated by our forefathers.  

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Of course, our history of Thanksgiving begins with the Mayflower Compact.  

This document that was signed by the original colonists in 1620.  Read what it says; ".... for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith....".  Is there any question after that why the Puritans came here and what their focus was?  I'm glad to see it so clearly displayed in the most original of our historical documents.

With this document and the article above I guess I have enough information to conduct a short treatise on the beginnings of Thanksgiving.  I know it would probably bore the gang to death, so I will keep it short and sweet.  You might consider putting together something like this for your own family.  It really is enlightening to read about the real Thanksgiving to God.

Thanks for visiting.  Have a blessed Thanksgiving.

In Him

Bill

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Kingdom.Golf Process and Current SERVPRO Client

11/9/2014

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Proving the Kingdom.Golf Tournament Process

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Kingdom.golf is blessed to have engaged with SERVPRO of Middle Tennessee for their May 2015 golf tournament.  We were invited by Marty Sexton to assist in this corporate strategy to solidify the relationship with the Red Cross and the many Franchisees of Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Southern Kentucky.


Marty's idea was to conduct a corporate event at the beautiful The Fairvue Plantation Golf Club in Gallatin,TN, but, in the process to devise a strategy to better get to know the Red Cross within the area and to allow a closer bonding with the vendors or Centers of Influence (COI's) in the local area of the Franchisee.  And, hey, along the way, raise a significant amount of money for the Red Cross as well as wounded veterans who will be entered into the event strategy as well.  Great idea and worthwhile purpose!!

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So Marty had the wherewithal to bring the tournament together and has done a great job so far to caste the vision.  In fact, we have conducted three meetings that I have participated in; 

1. A meeting with the SERVPRO coordinator of Franchisees for Middle Tennessee and solicited his ideas and direction/support for the event. He was very impressed. 

2. A meeting at the Red Cross Headquarters in Nashville with the Director, Strategic Partnerships & Development present where we presented the idea and her comment was; "Well, you have done a great deal of the work already. So, this makes our engagement alot easier." (words to that effect).  

3. And a recent meeting at SERVPRO Headquarters in Gallatin where they were conducting training for many of the same Franchisees that we were gathering for the golf tournament.  


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What impressed the Red Cross Director, Strategic Partnerships & Development so much?  Well, honestly, this website and management device.  

We had already used GolfDigestPlanner to build a website for the event, including sponsorships, registrations, benefits, etc. etc. with the "backend" capability to market, manage and conduct the event. 


We had also provided a one-page brochure for the Franchisees, so the initial work necessary to identify an overview of the event, the strategy, the course, the benefits, etc had already been accomplished and she could use her skill and connections to draw others to the event for the benefit of the charity.

What's next?  Well, we have a meeting this coming Thursday in order to update all and recruit the necessary committee members to fulfill the event.

What will that look like?  Well, I'm hoping we can move in the direction of implementing the strategies that have made other Kingdom.golf tournaments successful;

1. Begin identifying the people that can best fill the roles of the Tournament Committee, like indicated here;

2. Present the characteristics of the right committee members for the right jobs and walk through the process of choosing who to recruit and how to approach them to accept the job. (who knows, we may have all the folks there we need).

3. List every single person we can think of that may help or participate in this event.  Capture their full names, their email addresses, their cell phone numbers, if possible, and determine WHO knows them the best to introduce them to the event.

4. Don't walk away from the meeting until we have a solid handle on who will be the Golf Event Chair (GEC), and 3 each  candidates for the the Golf Fundraising Director (GFD) and The Sponsorship Chair (SC).

Results posted next.....
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Kingdom.golf Moving Forward

11/5/2014

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Kingdom.golf LLC (KGLLC) is moving forward!!

Over the past month or so we have been reviewing what we have done and what the Lord is prompting us to do. We firmly believe we are to develop Kingdom.golf LLC as an enterprise that "Give(s) the Gospel through Golf".

In that regard, we have reserved our LLC name with both the state of Tennessee and the state of Delaware not deciding yet which state to register in, but, the basis of our enterprise will be our golf tournament consulting, golf fundraising products and any other golf-oriented commerce we may get involved in that could provide revenue to support the mission.  We'll identify those avenues later in this blog.

We are moving our web files from www.opendoorsfortheopen.com (www.odftopen.com) and placing them under the www.kingdomcorporagtegolf.com domain for now as the Kingdom.golf or .golf domain has still not been released.  As we explained in an earlier blog, we believe the Kingdom.golf domain is essential to our activities on the web as it establishes our brand and draws seekers into our web and social media presence.

The ministerial part of our mission will continue to concentrate in a few areas and will be spearheaded by Dr. Ron Wilcoxson;

1. Attempt to create a cooperative network of ministries that are using the platform of golf for ministerial outreach.
2. Promote those ministries throughout the Internet and traditional media.
3. Conduct outreach events at various golf tournaments, hopefully, the Masters and other professional golf tournaments.
4. Partner with the Christian Business Men's Connections (CBMC) in order to conduct golf events throughout the country to draw Believers and non-Believers to events to experience and hear the Gospel.

Our enterprise activity has begun and, hopefully, will continue to grow;

The greatest value Kingdom.golf LLC brings to a golf fundraising client is our experience in conducting consultation for the organization conducting the golf event.  On average we can help a first time event increase their net return on their event by four times and we guarantee it.

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1. We have joined with SERVPRO and the American Red Cross in the conduct of a local tournament here in Middle Tennessee in May 2015.  The model is solid with the objective of 18 SERVPRO franchisees in Middle Tennessee sponsoring the tournament and reaching out to their vendors to raise additional funds for the Red Cross.  We hope this might lead to other SERVPRO tournaments across the network.


2. We have a golf marathon scheduled with a ministerial group in Barre Vermont that will be conducted in 2015.


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3. We have partnered with the United Golf Network (UGN) in order to provide us a "Pro-shop" for our golf items to be sold at tournaments.  Additionally, UGN provides other golfers interested in developing their own Pro-Shop the opportunity to build an online shop.  This is a multilevel opportunity to bring revenue and quality products to KGLLC.


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4. We have partnered with VPAR, one of the most widely used "live-scoring" products in golf.  This product provides residual revenue, but, also provides tournaments and tournament developers a tool to raise more sponsorships and provide sponsors with a greater ROI.


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5. We have partnered with GolfDigestPlanner.  We have used the GDP over the past four years and have not found a better golf tournament management system.  It is the best.


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6. We have become a representative with QTEGO auctions, providing an incredible online auction platform to raise more substantial donations for our customers.


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7. SeeYourGame is an incredibly valuable service that is a value-added tool to make your golf tournament stand out.  Additionally, it is a fundraising tool for your event.  You can use it in conjunction with the Title Sponsorship solicitation increasing ROI for your Sponsor as potential customers visit the SeeYourGame splash page created for that Sponsor.


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