The Team Is Assembled

As of Saturday, June 2nd of 2007 the Element staff has been called, assembled and moved to Cheyenne. Adam and Amber Cruz made the trek from Sheridan, WY to Cheyenne to join the Element staff. Adam is our lead worshiper. Both him and Amber have already been contributing what they could from Sheridan, Adam especially with the purchasing of sound equipment. This really has been 15 months in the making. In March of last year, soon after God stirred my heart to begin this adventure He placed Adam on my heart. I told Sabrina, I feel like I need to ask Adam to be our worship leader. Through some prayer and some conversations with people I HIGHLY trust it just didn't seem like the right time to ask. So I filed that thought in a drawer in my brain (there are lots of empty drawers there so didn't think I'd have trouble finding it). Grant Clark had already committed, in fact (I've said this many times) I always told Sabrina "I'll never plant a church, but if I ever did Grant would be the first person I'd ask to come along". Keenan and Katrina Fitzgerald were searching for God's direction in their lives and God directed me to them to be a part of this team. Keenan was feeling God's call on his heart into youth ministry and God confirmed in all of us that this was the right direction. Keenan and Katrina have been HUGE for us in the meeting of people and establishing relationships. November of 2006 comes along and that drawer opened up. Remember the drawer that held the thought of Adam. I began feeling again I needed to contact Adam. I told Sabrina, "I think it's time I call Adam". So I did. Funny how God works things out huh? I told Adam what God was doing in our lives and asked him what he thought about coming to be the worship leader at Element. On the phone he started laughing and said that God had been birthing in his heart more of a passion to lead worship. I need to wrap this up, but they were very careful to pursue God's direction in all of this and in late January, early February made the commitment to come to Cheyenne. WOW! How amazing our God is. To orchestrate the lives of 4 families to come to a city none of us knew anything about, to share with people about a God we are desperate to know more. I LOVE IT! This week we get to do our first event together as we start Element Unplugged. Check it out at www.elementweb.net I love my team. I love Element Church. I love Cheyenne. And I LOVE serving our God.

Following Christ,

Jeff