Bummed!

There are some great churches and church planters out there. Since diving into the world of blogging I've found some GREAT blogs out there by other church planters and churches. Reading some of their blogs today about their Easter weekend experiences kinda bums me out. I really felt like we had a great event set up for our first splash into Cheyenne. I totally trust that God has something else in store for us that will probably blow our minds, but tonight, I'm bummed! Some of these churches do some WAY out of the box events on Easter weekend, including dropping 50,000 eggs from a helicopter with some eggs holding a chance to win some sweet prizes. One church plant had 4,000 people from their community show up. INSANE! Now my mind goes to the next thing. What is our next event. How can we serve the community. We want to serve our community first and foremost, but as a new church in town their is a secondary thing in our serving. I don't think these 2 things oppose 0r contradict each other, I'm still working this out in my mind. As a new church we want to generate some new buzz in town WHILE serving. We will always do things that may never be known by the community simply because it's the right thing to do (serve at the Salvation Army soup kitchen, help the crisis pregnancy center, food drives, clothing drives, etc), BUT, now more than ever we want the community to SEE us in action doing something that is not common but stands out. Does this make sense? This is hard to do on limited funds. With unlimited funds, DUDE, look out. I can think of some pretty sweet stuff. With limited funds we want the biggest bang for our buck. Tonight I got an email about an event we wanted to do in June. The cost far exceeded my expectations. SO. Do we do it or not? That is the question. All this is processing I have to do as lead pastor. Please continue praying for us that the right events would rise to the surface. That we would be VERY wise stewards of what's been given to us. Doing an event just to do one is pointless to me. I want people who are longing for Life to see Life in us as we do an event. I want people to ask "What is it with this Element Church? They are always doing things for the community." Anyway, random thoughts on an Easter night.

Following Christ

Jeff