Inside Today's Experience - Gilbert Thurston

Great kick-off to the One Prayer series.
After being gone for 2 weeks it was great to be back.
Set-up this morning was a mess…someone from the time the team finished practicing Thursday night, to this morning, rearranged stuff on the stage and unplugged a lot of stuff. Guess they thought it was just a matter of plugging it back in, but it’s not…
So we ran around like chicken’s with our heads cut-off trying to get things working…we were about 30 minutes late getting practiced started which then cuts into some of the other prep time that’s needed…needless to say I was hoping for a smoother morning on my first day back.
Once we got settled, everything else seemed to run pretty smoothly.
Usually on communion Sunday’s the team and I take communion together afterwards, but we did it today beforehand and it was great…think we’ll do it that way from now on….really set the mood.
Wow we packed a lot of stuff into today’s Experience…but I really wanted to take communion since it fit so well with Craig’s message and of course the Child Dedications made sense on Father’s Day…so we ran a little over but it was worth it.
I was extremely pleased with the reaction to Craig’s message. I was a little nervous having the message come via video. even though I know it’s very successful in a lot of churches on a weekly basis.
You all responded when he asked t, laughed at his jokes and seemed to be really into it.
At one point Andy leaned over to me and said, “It’s about time we got a good preacher in here.”
Ah with friends like that who needs enemies.
Hannah did an awesome job with the special communion song…she and the rest of our team are so talented and I feel blessed to be able to work with them.
I messed up the child dedication although you wouldn’t have known it if I weren’t telling you it right now. I should have asked the commitment questions then prayed, but did it the opposite way. In the grand scheme of things it’s not a big deal, but I was definitely rusty in my public speaking after 2 weeks of R&R.
Afterwards many of you stopped me to tell me how much you liked the One Prayer message and also to offer support after my blog confession last week. Thanks to all!
I especially was grateful for the gift certificate that I was given to Red Robin, by one of the couples from the church…thanks…I will definitely put it to good use…and more than likely this week since hardly a week goes by that I don’t eat at least one meal there.
All in all a great day…and since I didn’t have to preach, I don’t even feel like I need a nap! So I’ll watch Tiger try to win the Open this afternoon and then we’ll head down to WV to visit with some friends this evening before I get back into the swing of things tomorrow.
Happy Father’s Day to all you dad’s out there…enjoy your day!

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