Sunday Recap // 05.11.08
Today was Mother’s Day. We had monsoon-like conditions and the place still rocked! No words can describe how proud I am of our team today.
Our parking team and greeting team went so far above and beyond it isn’t funny. They were soaked to the bone. At one point during the second service one of our guys who was helping with the parking team came into the service and stood on the front row. He took his shoes off and I could hear the sloshing sound of soaking wet shoes and socks. It was hilarious!
One young lady pulled me aside after the second service and told me that Daryl, our executive pastor had parked her car for her so her little sister wouldn’t get soaking wet! I am so proud to serve with guys to do whatever it takes to serve.
One guy who was soaking wet commented that he’s never had this much fun serving at church…he was on the parking team!
Here is a quick list of other things that took place today:
- Attendance: 559 (today was the first day without our college students. I also noticed that a bunch of our regular folks were out for the day with their moms. This is very encouraging.)
- Stories: I had several people pull me aside to introduce their families to me and tell me what a difference Lifepoint has made on their families.
- I had my mom and grandmom at church today.
- We gave away gifts to all moms.
- We gave away special gifts to our newest mom, mom with the most kids, and our mom with the oldest child.
- We had tons of new faces serving on the dream team today!
- Today started our lego series.
- We need to Lay a foundation our kids can build on.
- The moral and spiritual fabric of our children is largely in place by age 9.
- Relationships are the concrete strong families are built on.
- Someone brought me a package Oreo Double Stuff Cookies. Praise Jesus!
- We had some cool video elements today. I’ll post them tomorrow.
- I successfully pulled off operation mothers week surprise today with some amazing pictures of our kids by Jen Griffin. If you are in the market for some amazing picture you need to contact Jen.
- Lunch today at On The Boarder was amazing. I have an addiction to Fajitas!
- I got an encouraging text today from Scotty Neal in Cincy that said he was praying for me.
- Perry gave me a quick buzz this afternoon to see how our services went. From the sounds of it they did some amazing things this weekend. You can watch their service here on Monday.
- I love the way God has given me some amazing leaders that care big time about what is happening at Lifepoint. (Matt Fry, Scotty Neal, Perry Noble, Jason Wilson, Gary Lamb, Tadd Grandstaff to name a few…)
- Time to crash…
Good times
Why is it that just sitting on a bench waiting for an oil change with a good buddy can be some of the best times?
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You have not b/c you blog not.
Today was a pretty sweet day. We had an awesome couple walk into our offices today to let us know that they had read my blog a while back and saw that we were looking to add another trailer to the Lifepoint Fleet. You can read the post here.
To make a short story even shorter…this couple came in the office today to tell us that they purchased a 24′ trailer to give to us!!!! HOLY COW! I love to see people burn with a passion for Jesus and be willing to do something about it! Talk about Generosity! I was blown away…I still am. I had no idea that when I blogged about needing another trailer that someone would take me seriously. This couldn’t come at a better time. I guess you could say you have not because you blog (ask) not.
You could say I am a little excited!
Here is the short list of miracles that God has blessed us with:
- We were praying about buying 2 screens and a friend of a friend just gave us not only 2 screens but 2 projectors, cables, and distribution amps for free!
- We were praying about upgrading our sound equipment and a church we look up to just loaded up our mini-van one day when we were visiting with two massive speakers, two subs, and another projector!
- Just recently we were praying about adding a keyboard to the mix and a couple in the church felt like they were supposed to pay for it.
- We were out of trailer space a while back and another church in town gave us a small 8 foot trailer for free.
- and now the 24′ trailer.
God is incredible!
Now I’m praying for some crank lifts that will jack our lights high enough in the air that we can effectively light the stage and run our center screen. Let’s see what happens!
I HATE FACEBOOK!!!!!
If I get poked, superpoked, dropkicked, hugged, spanked, thrown a sheep at, pinched, karate chopped, tickled by one more person I don’t know I’m going to flip.
What’s with all the stinking application invitations. STOP SENDING ME THIS STUFF!!!! I don’t want it!!!
I may end up shutting the dumb thing down!
I just had to get that off my chest.
p.s.–don’t get me started on myspace!
Pastors Roundtable
I had the privilege of spending several hours yesterday with several pastors from around the Raleigh area at a Pastors Roundtable at C3 church with Matt Fry and Stovall Weems. Anytime I get around guys like that it is like drinking out of the fire hose. God has used both of these guys to passionately shape my life.
Here are a few of my thoughts from the roundtable.
Desire // Denial // Drive
- We must fight for a constant, relentless, personal pursuit of God.
- The church grows as we grow.
- We stop…the church stops.
- If you saw Celebration Church today you would see lots of stuff and gadgets but none of that has brought anyone into a relationship with Jesus.
- IT is the intangible relationship with Christ.
- Are you excited about getting in God’s Word?
- “God, what are you going to speak to me today?”
- Self Discipline
- regular times of prayer and fasting awaken us to areas of our life that aren’t right.
- Stay sensitive and fresh to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
- take up your cross daily and follow me.
- Get up regardless of what you are facing.
- Jesus is worth it and the church is worth it.
- You get discouraged at 7000 just like you do at 700.
enjoying the music
I’ve been studying this morning while playing “worth dying for” in the background. Take a second and listen to infiltrate on their myspace page. I know the spoken word part is not original with them but who cares it is an awesome declaration to make.
Go check it out now!
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