So its been a while since we've had some creativity here. I found one for you though...
10.31.2008
10.29.2008
Heads Up
Hey,
Just wanted to remind you guys that Daylight Savings ends Saturday night. Don't forget to chang your clocks otherwise you'll end up watching our warm-up for the first service. (It's ok if you want to come and watch!) So enjoy an extra hour of sleep this weekend and get pumped up for what God wants to do on Sunday. It's gonna be awesome!
Just wanted to remind you guys that Daylight Savings ends Saturday night. Don't forget to chang your clocks otherwise you'll end up watching our warm-up for the first service. (It's ok if you want to come and watch!) So enjoy an extra hour of sleep this weekend and get pumped up for what God wants to do on Sunday. It's gonna be awesome!
10.27.2008
Crazy Weekend Rewind
Hey all,
OK, so the last time I posted I said that I was back and then it's taken me a week to post again. Oh well. A lot of things happen in a week. This last Friday and Saturday the staff spent in Boise at the Intermountain Area Convention. Bill talked a little bit about it on Sunday. It was a great time. We got up early on Fri. and spent the morning in the car, the afternoon at the mall and the church and the hotel. Saturday was the main part of the convention. John Jackson is a great speaker.
Some cool things happened and I wanted to tell you guys about two of them. After the first session we were talking with John and invited him to have lunch with us. As we sat down at the table to eat he started asking questions about Pocatello and our church to get a feel for where we were at. He asked about some of the things that we are doing as a church and we got to brag about you guys a bit! Kathy told him about the FriendZone and how it made enough of an impact that the State asked us to be in charge of the kid activities at Recovery Fest this year. John loved the story of what God did through you so much that he asked if he could tell it when he talks to other churches. (Kathy said yes) So I wanted to give you all some props for letting God use you to make His name famous in places we will probably not get to.
Second, we were talking about the I Saw The Lord campaign that we are going through. We shared how since the campaign started we have gone from 14 to 20 small groups and have close to 200 people participating! Now, a moment of honesty, I have heard those numbers many times over the last two weeks, but when John heard about your commitment to God it sent him reeling. He leaned back in his chair, threw his hands up and said WOW! We can get so close to what God is doing that we sometimes don't see it. That's where I was. When I saw John's reaction I almost lost it right there at the table. Tears were welling up and it was all I could do not to breakdown right there.
The bottom line is that God is doing some amazing things here. Things that we might not even see for what they are yet. It's not because of the staff. It's because we as a church family have taken the call of God to see Him seriously and He is starting to reveal Himself.
I have to tell you that it is going to get crazy around here. As we chase after what God has for us we are going to find ourselves in places we didn't think were possible.
So keep on keepin' on!
OK, so the last time I posted I said that I was back and then it's taken me a week to post again. Oh well. A lot of things happen in a week. This last Friday and Saturday the staff spent in Boise at the Intermountain Area Convention. Bill talked a little bit about it on Sunday. It was a great time. We got up early on Fri. and spent the morning in the car, the afternoon at the mall and the church and the hotel. Saturday was the main part of the convention. John Jackson is a great speaker.
Some cool things happened and I wanted to tell you guys about two of them. After the first session we were talking with John and invited him to have lunch with us. As we sat down at the table to eat he started asking questions about Pocatello and our church to get a feel for where we were at. He asked about some of the things that we are doing as a church and we got to brag about you guys a bit! Kathy told him about the FriendZone and how it made enough of an impact that the State asked us to be in charge of the kid activities at Recovery Fest this year. John loved the story of what God did through you so much that he asked if he could tell it when he talks to other churches. (Kathy said yes) So I wanted to give you all some props for letting God use you to make His name famous in places we will probably not get to.
Second, we were talking about the I Saw The Lord campaign that we are going through. We shared how since the campaign started we have gone from 14 to 20 small groups and have close to 200 people participating! Now, a moment of honesty, I have heard those numbers many times over the last two weeks, but when John heard about your commitment to God it sent him reeling. He leaned back in his chair, threw his hands up and said WOW! We can get so close to what God is doing that we sometimes don't see it. That's where I was. When I saw John's reaction I almost lost it right there at the table. Tears were welling up and it was all I could do not to breakdown right there.
The bottom line is that God is doing some amazing things here. Things that we might not even see for what they are yet. It's not because of the staff. It's because we as a church family have taken the call of God to see Him seriously and He is starting to reveal Himself.
I have to tell you that it is going to get crazy around here. As we chase after what God has for us we are going to find ourselves in places we didn't think were possible.
So keep on keepin' on!
10.16.2008
I'm Back
WOW. It's been way to long since my last post. I've been trying decide what to post about over the last couple of days and have not been able to think of anything. If fact, my whole week has kind of been like that. It feels like I have just been wandering around in a fog. Anyone else ever felt like that?
It's really hard to figure out why that is. I think I get into these positions when I am spending too much time trying to be profound, or successful, or something. Yesterday I listened to a sermon by by Matthew Barnett, pastor of The Dream Center in Los Angeles. At one point he told a story about how God showed him that he was more committed to his dream of success than he was to the dream that God had given him.
It's kind of funny (funny hmmm, not funny HAHA) that when we unplug from God we can't really connect to anything else. I find that I can be disconnected from God even when I am doing all of the things that I am supposed to be doing as a Christian.
I don't think that it is an accident that this weeks study in I Saw the Lord is called Wake Up! I know that I need to do that. I have been sleeping the last week and it has influenced everything I haven't gotten done this week. I think that the first part of waking up is realizing you're asleep.
So as I wake up today I would ask that you pray for me and I will pray for you. We all need to wake up from something, so lets let God wake us up.
I promise that I will get back to regular posting in the next couple of days!
It's really hard to figure out why that is. I think I get into these positions when I am spending too much time trying to be profound, or successful, or something. Yesterday I listened to a sermon by by Matthew Barnett, pastor of The Dream Center in Los Angeles. At one point he told a story about how God showed him that he was more committed to his dream of success than he was to the dream that God had given him.
It's kind of funny (funny hmmm, not funny HAHA) that when we unplug from God we can't really connect to anything else. I find that I can be disconnected from God even when I am doing all of the things that I am supposed to be doing as a Christian.
I don't think that it is an accident that this weeks study in I Saw the Lord is called Wake Up! I know that I need to do that. I have been sleeping the last week and it has influenced everything I haven't gotten done this week. I think that the first part of waking up is realizing you're asleep.
So as I wake up today I would ask that you pray for me and I will pray for you. We all need to wake up from something, so lets let God wake us up.
I promise that I will get back to regular posting in the next couple of days!
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