Inside Today's Experience - Gilbert Thurston

Great Experience today!

I’m so stinkin’ proud of you guys. I asked you to invite people to come out to hear our guest speaker and you did…big time!

All morning long the ushers had to keep adding chairs to accommodate all the people coming in.

By the time it was all said and done we had the largest crowd in United history!

Cathy delivered an awesome message and many people told me how much they enjoyed it.

From a set-up and technical standpoint, today went very smooth.

Brian did a great job leading vocally for the first time…you’ll be hearing more from him.

It was nice to have a “week off” but yet still be able to attend.

Cathy told me to stand in the back and give her a 10 minutes until you need to wrap up sign.

I was jumping up and down, waving my arms, all but shouting and she never saw me.

Turns out she said she liked speaking from our stage because she couldn’t see a thing.

Now I know better…you can see but she was on a roll.

Reminds me of the old joke…You know what it means when a preacher says he’s closing? Absolutely nothing.

Cathy really enjoyed her time with us and was impressed with our new building and you…we’ll see about having her back sometime in the future.

I know it’s not all about the numbers, but since people represent those numbers, here’s some interesting tidbits:

The 3 Wise Monkey’s series ended up being our highest attended series ever.
Today’s attendance represented what used to take United 6 weeks combined attendance to reach as of the fall of 2006.
If we’ll each keep inviting our family, friends, co-workers and neighbors, we should have a great Easter season where we’ll continue to break attendance records, but more importantly see people’s lives changed forever.
At the pastor’s luncheon today I mentioned that by my estimate we have 70000 unchurched people in our county…
So as good as things are going we can’t stop praying, believing and reaching out.
Tonight is CAYA and the Guitar Hero tournament…I’m going to get thrashed I just know it.
Please pray for me this week…not only do we have a new series getting ready to launch but we also have all the last minute stuff to get ready for our move this Saturday.
Again if you can help we’d appreciate it. E-mail me at gilbert@unitedworshipexperience.org for directions.