Inside Today's Experience - Gilbert Thurston

We’ll call today “Night and Day”.
Set-up could not have been worse…ok it probably could but I don’t want to experience it.
Any day we start a new series is a bit tougher because of assembling a new stage set.
Add on top of that we were adding some new people in today which meant some new equipment to make compatible plus teaching them how to use in-ear monitoring.
So of course today had to be the day that things didn’t want to fire up just right.
Then to make matters worse, Chelsea is on vacation and took her laptop with her which is usually used for Children’s Ministry.
She had all the stuff loaded on another Mac but it turns out it needed a different kind of adapter.
After much deliberation and some pretty drastic options that were considered…well honestly I’m not sure what Andy came up with.
That’s the joy of having my best friend be a complete geek…whatever he did, the children ended up having their stuff and we ended up not having to sacrifice any of our equipment.
In any case, once everything settled down, we had a tremendous experience.
Great job by Bill creating the new set…which took advantage of extreme amounts of bubble wrap to create some cool lighting effects.
The Experience kicked-off with Diane Hetes singing “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele.
I love that song and Diane gave it a cool Gospel kind of feel. She did a great job.
Even though we had a smaller crowd today, the energy was pretty good and the band did an awesome job of leading.
Loved hearing the crowd singing loud during Manifesto.
I was of course back for the first time preaching in a month.
Big thanks to Chad for doing the Thrive series and allowing me some time off to get rested.
Gotta get my preaching voice back though…amazing how sore my throat was after today’s message.
We kicked-off the Jonah series and just as I thought before-hand…this could be a phenomenally life-changing series for a lot of people.
I’d strongly encourage you to listen to the message…it could be a life-changer for you.
I know it was an eternal life-changer for 2 ladies…each prayed today to ask for Jesus forgiveness and leadership in their lives.
AWESOME!!!!
Got to have some great conversations after the Experience.
so excited to be back and see what God has in store for us this summer.
Don’t forget our 1st baptism service will be July 31st. If you haven’t yet been baptized for would just like more info, please email me and let me know.
Busy week ahead…can’t wait to hang with a bunch of you this Friday at the Senator’s game…should be fun!

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