Reference List

• Keith Kirkpatrick, Journey Church OR (541) 647-2944
• Brian Haney (bhaney@highdesertchurch.com), High Desert Church CA (760) 245-2415
• Jacob Barbour, High Desert Church CA (760) 245-2415
• Doug Story, Sunrise Church East Valley CA (951) 897-9787
• Bryan Vaughn, The River Community Church TN (931) 528-3660
• Matt Sellers, Paragon Church NM (505) 314-3643 or (505) 892-1323 x16
• Aron Strong, Westhills Chuch CA (559) 659-6500
• Julie Scott, Hope Community Church AZ (602) 568-6028
• Steve McNary, Rockhills Church TX (210) 454-8962
• Lisa DeKryger, The Bridge MI (269) 673-6336
• Jamie Hart, Crosspointe Church FL (407) 247-1791
• Rob Hall, Central Peninsula Church-Millbrae CA (650) 349-1132
• Pastor Phil, Hope Community Church CA (805) 922-2043
• Norm Hunington, Hill Country Bible Church- Hutto TX (512) 275-5613
• Chris Miller, Church On The Rock AK (907) 357-7869
• John Garcia, River Valley Church CA (559) 284-2486
• Jeff Jackson, Gateway Hill Country Church TX (512) 294-4525
• Mike Lowery, Counterpoint Church FL (239) 281-1755
• Pastor Jer, Grace River Church FL (740) 525-5705
• David Stine, DC Metro Church DC (703) 431-0140
• Shane Finley, Mountain View Fellowship UT (801) 615-9064
• Jerry Jeter, RiverLife Church FL (941) 773-1211
• Jeff Purcell, ReGeneration Church AZ (520) 591-8261
• Devlin Watson, The Parks TX (512) 415-7343
• Mario Calderon, Bridges Church NC (919) 358-7154
• Matt Kirkland, Lincoln Park West CA (209) 870-4707
• Tom Hartmann, Evanston Bible Fellowship IL (859) 806-3402
• Troy Knight, Generations Church NC (910) 520-6037
• Tyler Zielasko, Grace Christian Fellowship FL gcfinfo@gmail.com
• Pastor Jim, Costa Mesa Center for Spiritual Discovery CA (714) 522-9819
• Bill Yaccino, formerly of New Harvest Church CA (559) 696-4391

-----Original Message-----
From: Powe, Brian
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 5:11 PM
To: Eric Bako
Subject: Order

Hey Eric

I just wanted to let you that we had a great time for our first
preview service this past Sunday. Everything worked out better than we
could have expected! Set up was a breeze and all equipment was in
working order!

From: Story, Doug 

Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:00 AM
To: ericb@churchonwheels.com
Subject: Re: Church On Wheels

Eric

Thank you sooooooooo much for all your hard work this last weekend. Having you guys there was a total blessing. Your equipment was great and your advice about making things efficient was priceless


THANK YOU

also tell corey he was awesome too

From: Mark Manion
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 12:15 PM
Subject: COW Team At Northgate

Good Day Eric,

What a wonderful weekend of activity at NorthGate (A Community With A Campus Vision). I cannot tell you how pleased we were with Marshall and Grant, what an awesome team. Their assistance, patience and knowledge for our team was outstanding. They certainly represent all the great characteristics of Church On Wheels that we expected when we chose your firm for our new church in a theatre requirements. They certainly made everything run very smoothly and made our practice Sunday a smashing success.

From: Rob_Gibson
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 7:38 AM
To: mikeg@ChurchOnWheels.com
Subject: FW: Final Reconciliation

Hi Mike,

I wanted to give you a personal "thank you" for making your part of our launch so smooth and acting in such a Christ like manner. You and Corey were awesome, and have made what could have been a very stressful, difficult part of the launch a blessing. Thank you!

If I understand the emails that Norm forwarded it looks like you have also gone above and beyond ………………….……………………Thanks again, you guy's are awesome. Please feel free to use HCBC Hutto as a reference.

Many thanks,

Rob...

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Ludwig
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:08 AM
To: mikeg@churchonwheels.com

Mike,

First of all I want to say " THANK YOU SO MUCH", you and Eric are awesome guys and really great to work with. This whole portable thing is new to me. I have always been part of a church that owned a building, so this was new to me. You two made all the difference in the world. Your attitudes, your dedication and hard work are very much appreciated by me and all of the guys that set up with us on Saturday and Sunday, I know that my wife feels the same way I do.

I pray that God continues to bless your families and your business. Thank you again.

Thanks again for everything,
Bill Ludwig

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hagler
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:17 AM
To: ericb@churchonwheels.com
Subject: Re: STATUS - Crossroads UMC proposal version 4

… We have a member of Due West who works for GM doing professional displays who looked over the list and came back and again, affirmed that you guys are giving us a great deal. He was amazed by the price and all we're getting!

Thanks!

From: Toni Whaley
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 7:23 AM
To: ericb@churchonwheels.com
Subject: Re: New Spirit Community Church order #1072617 - payment confirmation

Eric,

As for our first Sunday with them <carts> - Praise God! What a tremendous improvement over our three years of "torture." We believe that we are more organized, and better able to serve our ministry areas as a result of these very well-constructed, easy to use, and sleek designed transport units.

Thanks for your help and putting up with us. We know that we are properly outfitted now and that your product is one that will serve us for years to come - wait a minute....I really hope God gives us a building soon!!!!!

10/31/2006 06:59 PM

rmlowery

Posts: 65
Joined: 10/10/2005
Rich, We went with church on wheels and are completely satisfied. They were extremely professional, delivered top notch equipment to outfit our environments (parking lot, lobby, nursery, preschool, children's church and worship center). I could not be happier. We had some first time attenders to our preview that commented how impressed they were with the quality of the sound - they totally did not expect that good of a sound. Mike Gardner of COW was the most tireless, encouraging servant-spirited business founder I have ever known. COW comes with my 5-Star Plus rating!

-----Original Message-----
From: Marshanna Ludwig
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:43 PM
To: ericb@churchonwheels.com
Subject: Re: A Big Thank you

Eric,

First of all I just want to say what a blessing you and Mike were to us on our first day at the Edwards Cinemas. I know that you re-arranged your schedule to be with us. Thank you so much! You both have, what I would call, servant hearts. You were professional and courteous and we were so grateful to have you there with us!

I felt that our opening day went very smoothly because of your representation. Thank you for showing us the face of Christ.

Sincerely,
Marshanna Ludwig
Hope Comunity Church

From: Donn Long
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 2:08 PM
To: Mike Gardner - COW
Cc: Mark Lumpkin; Peter Horn
Subject: Portable stage

…..We had great confidence in you, and you delivered! Thanks again to you and your team for pulling everything together for us!

From: Lisa and Curt DeKryger
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:36 AM
To: Eric Bako
Subject: launch

Hi Eric!

Our official launch went great this past week. We had over 130 in attendance and made many new connections with people. God is doing a new thing in Allegan and we couldn’t be more pleased with our church on wheels package. The room is working out great, we are having a blast leading worship with the sound system, the lights help create a great atmosphere, the projector puts up a beautiful picture & the carts wheel down the hall very nicely…..

----- Original Message -----
From: George Johnson
To: George@theCEA.org
Cc: mikeg@ChurchonWheels.com
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 7:56 AM
Subject: FW: Enclosed Cart
Dear Church Planters, Partners and Friends,
I am forwarding a resource and contact information to you for any needs you may have in the area of portable equipment, trailers, signage, etc. for the new churches you are serving.
As many of you know, I started a small company in 2004 to serve the needs of our growing church planting movement here in the Northwest – Church2Go. Because we have purchased a number of great but expensive packages from Portable Church at an average cost of $80K each I began to see that anything we could save in this area would be money available for staffing, marketing, etc. We designed our own carts, bought used trucks and shipped equipment to several of our new plants. While we were able to save at least 25% on our packages over what we had been paying, the effort was taking too much time and investment capital I couldn’t personally afford.
Earlier this year I came across Church on Wheels. This new division of HMC Display is the vision and personal project of Mike Gardner and his team. Mike is a Christian brother who attends a new church in Fresno, CA where he volunteers to pull their trailer and helps with their set-up in a rented facility. Out of this experience he began to dream about leveraging the strengths of HMC as a large established national company to serve the market of mobile churches and their equipment needs.
The bottom line that should interest you is that Church on Wheels can provide you with equipment at substantially less cost than other comparable companies. The quality is as good or better than anything else you’ve seen. In addition to the direct savings per item, because Church on Wheels is based in California, the cost of shipping is a fraction of the cost of shipping from the Midwest or eastern part of the U.S. There are also some other innovations they have developed that will wow you.
We will be ordering our first full package with Church on Wheels for a new plant later this year and I’m very excited about the time and money we’ll save. I encourage you to call Mike Gardner and find out how he can help you. His contact info and a picture of one of their carts with diamond-plate upgrading follows.
Your partner in the harvest,
Dr. George Johnson
Executive Director , Christian Evangelistic Associatio

From: Jerry Jeter
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:02 AM
To: mikeg@churchonwheels.com
Subject: Re: contact info

Thanks for coming in Sunday and helping us. You have gone out of your way to help us fulfill our vision and I appreciate that. I would certainly recommend COW to others in the same process. Thanks.

Jerry Jeter

From: Shane Finley
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:47 PM
To: ericb@churchonwheels.com
Subject: RE: Installation Wrap Up

... Thanks for all your work. We have had a great experience with you and COW so far. Mike was great as well. He was very personable and willing to help wherever needed on Saturday. I appreciate you guys and feel very blessed by the expertise you offered us.

From: Sandy McGreevy
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:03 PM
To: ericb@churchonwheels.com
Subject: Order Request

Eric,

… We are really loving our COW items. The carts make setting up and taking down so organized and efficient. Thanks for all your assistance.

Blessings,

Sandy McGreevy
Campus Administration
Central Peninsula Church - Millbrae

From: Pastor Scott
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:56 AM
To: mikeg@churchonwheels.com
Subject: Re: Last items to clean up.

Well done good and faithful servants of the Most High!

By USPS Mail, dated March 28, 2007:

Dear Mr. Gardner,

On behalf of the Elders at Hill Country Bible Church Hutto and behalf of the Lord Jesus Christ, we want to thank you for your service to our church as we launched Hill Country Bible Church on Sunday. You and your team demonstrated exceptional personal and professional care throughout the entire process of planning and quotation through successful delivery and deployment of our equipment. Your attention to detail and flexibility in working with our leaders, facility and materials made the ramp to our first service a pleasant experience. More than that, in that first service, we were able to worship God together as a new body of believers and effectively provide the ministry we believe he wants us to have using the Church on Wheels equipment….
Your contribution to this process has given Him pleasure and glory.

Sincerely,

Tom Albers
Chairman of the Elder Board