Sunday Reflection 9-30-07

MAN today was quite a day. I picked up Adam 1t 6:15 this morning to go get the trailer hooked up to my Suburban. We worked for 20 minutes to get the hitch lock off and the screwdrivers we had didn't work. That was the start to the morning. We then got it hooked up and had to still load some things from the office. Adam tried pushing the Hospitality cart loaded with supplies up the trailer ramp and it completely tipped over off the ramp and onto it's back. THEN we didn't strap the carts down inside the trailer and the carts rolled around and smashed one of our trailers. The theater employee showed up at 6 AM (was misinformed) and started to worry when by 7 no one was there. Adam and I finally got there at 7 :15. We usually get to the theater by 6:45. Other than that, today was AWESOME!

--- First of all, I'll talk more on this in the weekend wrapup, but the Gas Buydown was great. We had a steady flow of cars for four hours. We'll find out how many gallons we pumped later this week. 33 volunteers for the buydown, only 3 were not from Element. That is unbelievable to me. I think one of the new families who came today was from the buydown.

--- Adam unleashed an original song today. He wrote it a couple of weeks ago. It's an awesome song. How cool is it that we can have original worship. It's called "Come and Rescue" and it fit perfectly in the theme of the service.

--- We had 78 today. New record for Element Church. Our previous high was 75. We had several new families today. 2 connection cards filled out.

--- One connection card the family wrote "We moved from (another town) to here almost a year ago. Have yet to find a church home. We have NOW!" That blows me away.

--- We ended the service with the most memorable sermon illustration I've ever done. You'll have to watch it online to catch it all. My sermon was on the 4 men who brought their friend to Jesus and dug a hole in the roof to lower him before Jesus. Let's just say we ended the service with our own "Bring your friend to Jesus, service interrupting" ending. It was GREAT!

--- Had our second family attend the service today who found out about us in the magazine article that was done. Thought it was pretty cool that two families came from that.

That's it for now. I'll post a weekend wrapup tomorrow morning with more details.

Following Christ,

Jeff