Weekend Wrapup

Another good weekend at Element Church. One more preview under our belt. Hard to believe we have 2 more previews left and then it's launch time. Here are bits, pieces, highlights and wrapups of the weekend.

--- Got a severe case of the Mondays right now. We only had 44 people yesterday. We did have one new family from Cheyenne. Two of our core families were out sick totaling 12 people just from those two families gone.

--- With those 44 people we did have a GREAT offering. We got $2592 given yesterday. That is awesome. WOW! Way to go Element peeps.

--- I felt yesterday was our best day yet for setting up, tearing down, transitions and overall production. The band sounded great!

--- Dont Miss It is starting off good. We've had 189 unique visits to our site. Please pray, PRAY, PRAY AND PRAY some more that our people will see our billboards, invite cards and/or t-shirts and go to the web-site. We really wanted to keep the church name off this portion of our promotions because many folks will see the word "church" and automatically cancel it out of their mind. If they see "Dont miss it. coming 10-07-07" They might be more intrigued to check it out. We are doing other promotions with our name on it to inform the community that this new church is starting.

--- A reporter from the newspaper has been at our last 2 preview services. He will be featuring us in an article about churches reaching young people in Cheyenne AND (as we understand it) an article specifically about us starting this new church. Please pray that people see this and will come check us out.

--- We've had LOTS of new faces at our previews and people who have been really impressed and drawn to us, HOWEVER, we need them to come back. lol In fact, excluding our launch team, we have had totally different people at all the previews. Please pray that these people who are drawn to what is happening will return and be a part of this new church.

--- Yesterday we had a flag football game. We played another church team. We won by the way. One of the other team members asked who the pastor was and I told him it was me. He knew we were a new church and his first question was "Are you guy's growing fast?" Why is that always peoples first question? When someone asks about your church's numbers do they want to hear you say "YES! We're growing like crazy!" Which we should ALL want for EVERY church. Or are they wanting to hear "No, man we're really not!" Which means you're not "out doing them" I don't know. I try never to ask someone how many they are running. How fast they are growing. I hope to be able to tell that by what they are doing in and around the community. I don't know if we're growing fast. We started in March with 6 of us in a basement. Now we are running over 60. If my math is right that is a 600% growth rate in 6 months. 10 times as many people in 6 months. Now, if we did that the next 6 months we'd be at 600 people. That's pretty fast growth I guess. I didn't say that to that guy. I just said "Well, we're a brand new church but things are going great." Anyway, didn't mean to ramble on like that.

--- Thanks for those of you who are following along. Please keep praying for us. Looking forward to Sunday already.

Following Christ,

Jeff