Monday, September 10, 2007

Weekend Wrapup (WE HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN?)

HA, Can't believe we have church again in 6 days. It's been 7 months since I had to get ready for a full church service in consecutive weeks. I'm glad we have church again. I love what we're doing. I love Cheyenne. I love Element Church. Can't imagine doing anything else. Here are some highlights of this last weekend. Lot's of stuff in this post. Hang on!

--- OU won 51 - 13 over Miami! Look out for my Sooners!
--- Jonah had his first flag football game Saturday. That was hilarious. Kids pulling off flags of random players who don't even have the ball. They don't quite get it at 6 years old. Running the wrong direction simply to avoid the other team.
--- We had 63 on Sunday. Three new families were there. Our offering was $1699.71. I really hope having successive previews will help us gain some momentum and keep people coming back.
--- We worked (especially Adam) SO STINKIN' HARD on getting our CSI video done for this week. We entitled it "Search". It is VERY good. Adam rocked da hizzy on getting it edited. The service went great, worship ended, we fired the video before my sermon, and 15 seconds in the whole thing FROZE! I walked on stage and said "SURPRISE!" Got a few awkward laughs. It STUNK. So now we're gonna show two videos this week. It better work. Keenan, Grant, Adam and I put WAY too much time into this thing.
--- We're still working on some tweaks in transitions in the service. Feel I need to do better in preparing people for transitions. We're getting better. That's on me.
--- I'm VERY excited about the sermons for the next few weeks. Can't wait to get into church again.
--- With Nicole as the manager at Carmike now it is even better. We were into the theater before 7 AM and done setting up by 8 AM. Had a couple MAJOR tech issues but had time to figure them out.
--- We started our launch day promotions today and have four billboards going up. Check below for what the billboards will look like. Or go here www.dontmissit.cc


--- We have t-shirts made and invite cards that look like that, along with the four billboards.
--- Our new web-site is up. www.elementweb.net
--- Our new podcast is up. You can link to all of our videos through the web and go to our podcast on the web too.
--- WE'RE DOING ANOTHER GAS BUYDOWN!! We wanted to serve the community again in that way and thought we'd do one the week before launch. Again I'll say, if we're gonna spend money on promoting the church, let's serve people in the process. THIS IS PART OF OUR DNA! Saturday, Sept. 29th we will be doing a four hour gas buydown. We want to accommodate more people so we're going bigger!
--- Trying to think what else happened. It's been a whirlwind 2 weeks since our last Unplugged. I told you there would be a lot in here.
--- Well, think that's about it. Thanks for following along. We'll keep you updated through the week as we approach launch. October 7th is 4 weeks away. CRAZY!

Following Christ,

Jeff

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