Wow

Today was just plain awesome. It's amazing to see what God can do in the lives of imperfect people and what he can can accomplish with a group of people who seek him in spite of those imperfections. I am an imperfect person and I am continually blown away by how he has blessed our church and looking forward to what lies ahead.

We started out this morning at 9:15 a.m. in Anderson and were blown away with the response. We had a core group of people there that consisted of 20 something people. In Anderson we had around 30 first timers to Stone Bridge. Special thanks to everyone in the core group there that had everything ready to go. Traci and Kim were set for the kids area which turned out great, Teresa was heading up the greeters and did a great job, Lynn and Ashton had the info table set and ready to inform people, Chandler had the hospitality area set up with the cofffee brewng(she makes really good brownies too), Mark, Randy, Anna, Will,Josh, and Evan were rocking out in the band, {De wayne} (sorry man but this is the phoenetic spelling that Mark and Dan have told me for your name) had the ushing ushed and Dan Dan the Easter Bunny Man had everything clicking. I'm really excited about the next steps in Anderson. Launching a new campus is scary because you begin to wonder if anyone will be there and so the response today really blew the doubts away.

Jeff and I scrambled up the road and made it to Powdersville with 3 minutes to spare. I didn't speak in Powdersville today because we are getting ready for our new series next Sunday called Storm Stories. Derrick Davenport spoke today for me and did a great job. It was awesome to see at the end of the service when people filled the front of the stage in prayer. For the second time in the last month we had to pull out extra chairs in Powdersville which was even more amazing considering the fact that we had a core of people that have moved to the Anderson campus and our attendance was still up in Powdersville. Today we had almost 170 people which is awesome considering we only started 6 months ago.

Next week is membership and right now we have over 70 people signed up for membership class at Powdersville. We will be having a membership class in Anderson coming up in the next couple of months.

It has been an extremely long week and I'm tired. i think I'm going to go eat some Jello and kick back and relax for the rest of the day.