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June 19, 2011 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Really appreciative to have Chad on staff.
  • We’re still in the midst of trying to get our old house in Chambersburg fixed up after our old tenants left it in bad shape.
  • Lisa and I are worn out but it made it easier working so hard this weekend knowing Chad was preaching.
  • It also didn’t help that I woke up at 3am this morning and had trouble falling back asleep.
  • All that to say when the alarm clock went off this morning I wasn’t really motivated to get up.
  • We had some new equipment arrive today to replace some stuff that had gone bad so set-up took a bit longer than normal.
  • What was funny was when the band went to do their warm-up and run-through, we were not getting any sound out in the house.
  • Checking…checking…checking…ummm wait nobody ever ran the cables.
  • Not sure exactly how after 8 months something like that happens but it did.
  • I joked with the team, “Good thing we’re working all these issues out in our preview services so that when we officially launch the church we won’t have any issues”.
  • The Experience started today with our first original song called, “On the Edge”.
  • Jeff wrote it in response to the iLife series.
  • Awesome job by Jeff, Bill and the band working on it the last few weeks.
  • It was cool watching and listening each Thursday as it took shape.
  • I was excited to be able to announce our first baptism service will take place on July 31st immediately following the Experience.
  • I’m hoping many will take the plunge both literally and figuratively and be obedient to Jesus command to be baptized.
  • Surprised by how few father’s we have that attend.
  • We still honor you anyway!  🙂
  • Especially good to have my dad with us…guessing that’s the first time in 18 years that we’ve been able to worship together on Father’s Day.
  • After last week’s weirdness in having the recording stop unexpectedly, it was a relief to get home today and see that everything worked well today.
  • You can listen to Chad message here.
  • He joked about not being good with kids, but he does an incredible job with his own 3…glad he can model that for others.
  • Lots of good interaction afterward…love seeing how people are coming earlier and staying later to hang with one another.
  • Speaking of, we’d love to be able to hang with as many of you as possible on July 15th at the Harrisburg Senator’s game.
  • We bought a block of tickets…you can purchase them for only $7.50 each on our web-site.  Hope you can make it!
  • This is a great event to invite someone to that isn’t quite ready to come with you on a Sunday morning.
  • It will help them see that followers of Jesus are normal people not some weirdo’s.
  • Insert your own joke here  ___________________.
  • Came home and took not just 1 but 2 naps.
  • Finishing up some stuff this afternoon and then start 2 weeks of vacation tomorrow!
  • Please pray for us that it will be a relaxing time and that we get the housing situation wrapped up between now and then.
  • I’ll be back preaching on Jul 10th with a new series on Jonah.
  • Was able to get the majority of it written in the last few weeks…should be exciting and in week 3 we’ll have a very special surprise.

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