Three for Thursday

Hey Element Church! This was my three for Tuesday, here is an update on those three things.

#1 No nightmares but it was a nightmare drive back from Gillette last night. The snow was so bad we almost turned around about 38 miles outside of Gillette. The event was great and the band STINKIN' ROCKED last night. I hope you realize how blessed you are to have Adam lead in worship and the band mates that serve each week. We were following the white line directly in front of our car for a couple hours it seemed. Just crazy swirling snow. It was weird to be back in Gillette at the student ministry I lead for so long. Travis is doing an AWESOME job leading Inside Out Student Ministries up there.

#2 WE GOT THE LEASE TODAY! WOHOOOO! They agreed to all of our requests. I need to read over the fine print tonight but our realtor says everything looks good. We should be signing tomorrow and the place is hours. We don't pay rent until July 1st so we have 2 months to begin work on it. Our contractor came by and he will be putting in for a building permit on Monday and we can begin demo next week on some walls. I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE DOING THIS! Is what keeps going through my mind. We'll be presenting "The Climb" finance challenge on Sunday. We have some video to show you of inside the building and more details as well. There will be an opportunity for you to sign up to help volunteer as well. MAN, this is huge for us. God has provided in such wonderful ways, let's continue to serve and follow Him and seek Him with me on continuing to work miracles.

#3 First off, let me say I am SO thankful for Amber and her VERY hard work for setting up our prayer flight today! I'd do it again tomorrow if it were set up. I hope we're able to do it again next year. So THANK YOU AMBER! HOWEVER, If you're looking for an exhilarating way to lose your life, try flying on a day like today! Holy mackerel. We were able to fly over the city today and pray over it for the National Day of Prayer. If you live in Cheyenne, you know what it was like today. And we flew in a five seat plane around the city. Who needs six flags when you can do that. WOW! I LOVE flying but get nervous every time. It really made me nervous when the pilot referred to "It's gonna be a rodeo up there" We were the three amigos up there man. Grant sat shotgun up front, I was directly behind him facing backwards looking at Adam facing me in the backseat. The whole flight Grant had perma-grin. He's the ultimate optimist. I think Grant soaks up every moment of life and it's awesome. I'm convinced Grant could find happiness in a pile of poop...LITERALLY. If he could have, he would have asked the pilot to do loops. Which it felt like we almost did a couple of times. With perma-grin behind me I had vomitron in front of me. Adam admitted before take off that he gets motion sickness. Hmmm...Me thinks we have a problem. The first thirty seconds of the flight were bliss. The rest I was waiting to receive chunks in my lap. Adam was not feeling well. His face eventually turned white. His lips were white. He did not look good. I tapped perma-grin on the shoulder, pointed to vomitron and said "We need to set her down." For me, I prayed over the city in between my "PLEASE SAVE US LORD" prayers! Every dip that plane took my prayers changed to "HELP US LORD!"

Ok, enough drama. I really was blown away up there as we bounced around the air above Cheyenne. I seriously prayed this prayer for the whole flight (in between laughing at Grant, Adam and me) "Lord take this city. Lord take this city. Lord take this city" I thought how many of those houses, cars, business contained people who ABSOLUTELY needed Life in Jesus? We circled the Capitol at a steep banked turn. That was beautiful. Again I prayed "Lord take this city!" We flew over our new building "Lord take this city!" We flew over our house "Lord take this city!" You know what God wants? To take the city.

It took a while for Adam to recover and I think it took a while for Grant to get rid of his grin. It took me a while for my heart to stop racing. Again, thank you Amber for setting that all up. I tease about the flight, but we are BLOWN AWAY that you would set it up and think of us.

That's it! Three for Tuesday.

Still laughing,

Jeff