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!