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February 24, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • 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.
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