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November 17, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • The Contagious Christmas Challenge is becoming…well contagious!
  • Already hearing of other churches that are up to the Challenge.
  • In fact, I got an e-mail earlier from Kevin Richardson (Executive Director of the Eastern Region of our denomination) who happened to be in attendance yesterday and he is requesting all the info so they can promote it to all of our churches.
  • So far between the United site and YouTube, the vision video has been seen over 100 times.
  • Found out another church sent their entire worship team to visit us this past weekend to get some ideas and to be refreshed.
  • Too bad it was an off day, but I’m hoping God takes what we offered and uses it to inspire them so they do even greater things than we’ve done.
  • Had breakfast with a pastor friend on Friday morning and he passed along a story I though was sort of funny.
    • He said he was standing in line to vote on election day and he overheard a converstation between two people discussing United.  One person apparently attends the services in the sanctuary and was saying, “Yeah our church has gone all Hollywood with the smoke and the lights”.
    • To which another person in line interuppted and said, “Excuse me, but I hear your church is really growing and reaching a lot of new people for Christ”.  To which our member or attender responded, “You’re right and that’s a good thing”.
    • Couple of observations:
      • I’m glad our member/attender, was able to see past their personal preferences to the life-change that is happening.
      • How cool is it that people in the community are talking about us and that a complete stranger defended what God is doing in our midst.
      • Be careful what you say, you never know who is listening.
  • I found out that someone called into the Word-FM this past Thursday to have them pray for Earl and myself…thanks whoever you were…I know I need all the prayer I can get.  
  • Forgot to mention in yesterday’s blog that I almost tripped at the 9:15.
  • We put down a bunch of carpets to help keep the stage from reflecting so much light and I got my foot caught under one and almost took a tumble.
  • I think the problem is, I do enough weird stuff from the stage that people might have thought it was all part of the plan and I may have laid there for awhile knocked out until someone realized something was wrong.  :)
  • Ok, back to work…I’m flying down to Texas this Wednesday through Friday so I’ve got a lot to get done before I go.
  • Oh and by the way…Lisa leaves on Friday for Florida…so I will be accepting any and all food donations…ok maybe not all but you get my point.
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