Weekend Wrapup

Had another GREAT Sunday at Element Church. Didn't see the increase in attendance as I would have liked but we had a BUNCH of first time guests. Here are some thoughts and results from preview.

--- We had 63 in attendance yesterday. At our last preview we had 75, that was with 18 out of town guests. I didn't know what to expect.

--- Our offering was over $1500. Largest yet. Go God!

--- We had 4 families/individuals fill out connection cards as FTG's (first time guests). At least two others were FTG but didn't fill out a card.

--- We had a HORRIBLE time setting up and specifically in the technical audio/visual area. It REALLY set us back time wise for the morning. It all came together and the service went great but MAN it was a frustrating morning.

--- We have, already, an AMAZING group of volunteers. People helping at 6:30 AM loading up a stage. 7 AM had 8 people setting up (we need more). We had 6 or 7 volunteers on our first impressions team. We had several in the e:kidz department. We are off to a great start with volunteers.

--- We added two stage pieces which were priceless. It enabled us to set up one whole corner for a drama that Keenan did. Keenan did a great job on a little monologue to set up my message.

--- The theme for the day was "What will your story be?" Showed the video "The Martyrs Prayer" as part of my message. Adam and the band closed the service with an AWESOME version of Blessed Assurance. It wasn't your mom and dads hymn that's for sure.

--- The band sounded great. WE HAVE A DRUMMER! One of the guy's new to our church is playing drums for us. We added a drum shield which helped us control sound TREMENDOUSLY.

--- Got a list of new things to work on. I'm glad we're doing previews. Helps us tweak things that need to be tweaked. Learn from our mistakes. Get ready for our public launch.

--- Can't wait for Unplugged on Sunday. Hoping to see some of these new faces back. We have not had ONE week yet without a new face. That's all we're praying for. "Lord, bring us new faces." At this point we just want to see and connect new people.

--- Sept. 9th marks our next preview service. Starting that Sunday we will be in the theater every week. Please join us in praying that we outgrow the theater quickly. I WANT a space problem.

--- On a side note...Can't share a whole lot of detail but please also pray for the theater situation. Slight possibility that we won't be able to stay there. Long story and lots of details but the future at this time is uncertain. Please pray!

That's it. Thanks for following along. I probably forgot stuff that I'll have to add later.

Following Christ,

Jeff