Unplugged

This Sunday Adam is speaking on our core value of worship. It will be weird for me to be at Element and NOT be speaking. I love preaching but I am very excited to hear Adam this week. We were talking in the office today about his sermon and then about what I'm speaking on at Preview on August 5th. We were both getting fired up about what God is going to say.

Had staff meeting today. Talked about developing teams and getting volunteers plugged in. That is really hard right now. Not only are we trying to just get people to come to our church, but when they come and feel connected we have to build teams. I assume for the "new" person it will take some time of building trust and ownership before they'll jump in and serve in the church. Don't get me wrong, we've had some GREAT people step up and serve already but to get where we want to go we really need to start building teams well. As we grow that is going to be vital.

That is definitely an area I need to grow as a leader. I can get up and preach a message every day but I need to work on building teams, executive issues, planning, etc. I like to dream and I'm not necessarily the greatest at planning that dream.

We talked a bunch about launch day and upcoming sermon series. I've been working on a sermon calendar. I'd like to have the sermon series ideas for the whole year planned out and then be several weeks ahead on having sermons (at least rough drafts) done. I think we are going to have some cool sermon series over the next year.

We're going to have some very cool FTG (first time guest) follow up. Excited about what we're going to do there. Also, I'm pumped about our launch day campaign. We'll reveal that in the weeks to come.

Ok, those were random thoughts. (sorry Grant)