Inside Today's Experience - Gilbert Thurston

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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