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July 10, 2011 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • 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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