Launch Week Updates

This week is really FLYING by. I cannot believe we are 4 days from launch. We are going to be doing some cool stage/set stuff this week. We're trying to finalize that. Here are some stuff that has been going on this week.

--- Our direct mail piece hit mailboxes today. Our family received one. Every home of 18-45 year olds in Cheyenne received an invite to Element Church this week. 8,049 to be exact. Thank you to Terri for finding Kinkos to get this done for us. It cost us more money but i think it's worth it to get it out.

--- Our "new mover" cards went out this past week. Through outreach.com we have purchased a new mover program. Each month Outreach sends out oversized postcard invites to all new movers in Cheyenne. It is VERY affordable and we are the only church in town doing it. IF another church decides to do it they cannot use the same design of card. I'll post a picture of the card on here tomorrow. Outreach sent out over 100 cards this month to new movers into Cheyenne.

--- We pumped 5,500 gallons of gas in four hours. 480 vehicles were filled up with gas. Got that report today. Kathy, from Big D Gas Stations, said they are receiving lots of comments and "thank yous" from people who attended. I'm convinced one of the families from this past Sunday was from the buydown. I STILL need to get the news highlights online for that. We have video footage too.

--- Sermon is complete. Worship is finalized. Tweaks are made. Purchases are purchased. I feel good about this Sunday. We have a large contingent from HPCC coming down sounds like. The Search video and finale is going to be awesome.

--- On Sunday we had the church write down names of people they want to see cross the line of faith. We then asked them to place the names in a bucket, sitting in a wheelchair, representing those who are spiritually paralyzed and need help getting to Jesus. One of the names that was put in the bucket on Sunday, told the person who wrote the name, that she got in her car on Sunday and just felt that she "needed to talk to God". How cool is that? It was HUGE confirmation for this person who wrote their name, that God answers prayer and is in the business of moving people toward Him.

--- We have 2 children dedications lining up and 2 folks who want to get baptized already. I'm excited about experiencing that for the first time.

That's about it for now. I got a few things I really want to post on and am finding myself a little busy this week. Try to get them down.

Following Christ,

Jeff