Sunday Rumination (3-2-08)

Hey Element Church! March is here, Easter is just around the corner and we're starting three services with a 15,000 egg drop on the same weekend. That's how we roll.

Great service again today. Below are my ruminations on the day!

--- 6 people today acknowledged that they prayed to receive Jesus into their hearts. PRAISE THE LORD!
--- 15 -20 people indicated that they really felt challenged to "step it up" as a follower of Christ. That was cool.
--- Each week, regardless of what our topic is, we try to do some sort of spiritual decision time. I'm not sure we've had a service where we offered a specific time for a spiritual decision and not one person responds. That is the most important part of our service.
--- 366 in church today. I really feel like we've maxed out what two services is capable of handling. Before we hit 300 our staff felt like 350 was the most two services could accommodate. We've been over that three times in four weeks now. I'm really hoping that e:coustic enables us to see even more people come to church and to Jesus!
--- I LOVED our worship set this week! Adam and the band did incredible. God Of This City is my new favorite song.
--- Our scheduled drummer (Bryant) got called into work early this morning (search and rescue I believe. He's an AF helicopter pilot) so we didn't know what we were doing for a drummer. At least one of the songs HAD to have a drummer to really make it work. Adam called our other regular drummer and he came at a moments notice. We have two AWESOME drummers. So amazing who God has put on our team. Thanks Bryant and Brian for your faithful drumming. (Brian did awesome too. Without any practice)
--- During communion the band did another one of my favorite songs and it fits our series perfectly. It's called "Faith Like That" by Jonah 33. Amazing song and the band knocked it out!
--- The city scape set design looked great! Adam built 2 skyscrapers, we had chain link on the stage, stop lights and other stuff. It looked cool. Hopefully we'll get some pictures up soon!
--- The lobby was set up different today and it looked and worked GREAT! We have a merchandise table now and a Life Group table. Putting a Life Group table in the lobby has REALLY helped us getting people signed up for groups. Not sure who's idea that was but it's working great!
--- If you are an Elementer and not in a Life Group, I encourage you to get in one. As the church is growing you need to be connecting with people in a smaller group. I am convinced that a church is NEVER too large if it has effective and healthy small groups. We're working hard to ensure that ours are effective AND healthy.
--- If you want an easy way to invite someone to Easter, use some of the Heroes invite cards we gave out today.
--- We have Egg Drop invites coming and will need your help in getting them distributed around town. We didn't order them on time because of the craziness of last week and trying to get the event finalized. If you have kids, send some with them to school to give to their friends. We're hoping for a HUGE turnout.
--- If you can help by serving on the team for the Egg Drop or by helping with supplies that would be great. We need several of the motorized kids cars to use in a pre-school game area. (The cars they can actually drive like the jeeps, corvettes, etc.) We need someone to build us a bean bag toss and ring toss game for the little tykes as well. (Or if you know where we can get those) And we need one of the kids basketball goals. We want a pre-school game area for the 3 and 4 year olds to participate in and we need those games. The older kids will have races to participate in.
--- We are THRILLED about this event and hope it's a wonderful service to families in Cheyenne. If you could help us spread the word that would be AWESOME!
--- Three services is gonna wipe me out.
--- Three services is gonna HYPE ME UP!
--- We pretty much have our e:coustic team in place. Could use a little bit more help with set up/tear down.

Alright, that's about it. I'll add more later. Off for my AWESOME Sunday afternoon nap.

Following Christ,

Jeff