Thursday Thunder!

WOW are we doing WAY more than we should. HA! It has and is going to be a wild two weeks for us at Element Church. I'm telling you, this Sunday's service is going to be amazing and then we move into launch. I cannot wait for all the creative elements to be pulled off. We have a rockin' set of worship (even an original song by Adam), the Search video is incredible and the message is going to tie it all together as we end previews and head into launch. We're adding some stuff to the set this week. We aren't taking tomorrow off due to our over achieving minds. It's kinda like when you go to a buffet and fill your plate with WAY more than you could ever eat.

We got the mailer out, although we are eating some cost by doing it through Kinkos here in town. No complaints though. It's going out and getting done. Will hit mailboxes by Wednesday of launch week. See the post below to view the cards.

OH DUDES! We got permission today to leave our stage pieces in the theater by Nicole, the new manager. That is going to be HUGE for us. Nicole has been incredible in the two weeks she's run the theater. Amazing.

We were in the paper today for the gas buydown. On page 3 each day they have a thing called "News Briefs". They put local news, state, national, and world briefs from AP and local places. We were the first brief and it listed all our info and web-site. Brandon, who is doing the feature on us for the paper, got the brief in for us.

At 11 AM tomorrow I am meeting with the mayor and another church planter in town. The mayor is going to pray with us and release us out over the city. He is a strong believer and supports what we do. How cool is that?

At 3 PM tomorrow I'll be interviewed by the news station which then will be played on the 10 PM news. We've been blessed to get such great news coverage for our events.

We are expecting an article to hit the news stands next week about our launch.

A local pastor stopped by the office to visit today. He is an awesome dude. He's the second pastor I met with when we moved here. He prayed for us before he left which was way cool. In our discussion he asked what our emergency back up is if we would happen to lose the theater. I told him we're still seeking emergency options. He then said something to the effect of "I can't guarantee anything but I can get the ball rolling on making our gymnasium available in an emergency situation." How cool is that? He is very kingdom minded. Cool dude!

What an incredible thing we get to do. Church! There literally is nothing like it. I hope that the 1 hr and 15 min. people get to spend with Element Church is the best time of their week. I hope they have fun, laugh, cry and CONNECT WITH CHRIST! I cannot imagine doing anything else. No amount of money. No fame. No power can ever compare to what God has called us to.

That's about it. Can't wait for Saturday and the buydown. Sunday and church. Next week is launch week. Unbelievable.

Following Christ,

Jeff