- Thank you all so much!
- We couldn’t have asked for a better send off.
- The Experiences, party, cards, gifts, plaque, poster, etc all meant so much to Lisa and I.
- We are emotionally exhausted but praising God for the 3 1/2 years we spent together and the awesome send-off you gave us.
- Thanks to Thom Lambert for driving me to church this morning.
- Thanks to Brian, Earl and Aaron for putting together a very moving Experience.
- Loved all the testimonies and the video’s.
- Thanks as well to visiting family members and denominational leaders who came in to be a part of the day!
- Thanks to Chris and Amanda for heading up the party…I’m stuffed!
- Wow, I’m so tired and my mind is swimming so I’m sure I’m forgetting tons of things and people to thank.
- In any case, thanks again for a great day and all the support we’ve received.
- Again we’d appreciate your prayer support. If you’re interested on being on our prayer team, please e-mail to prayerteam@exponentialchurch.tv
- Also other ways you can help us financially and thru short term missions trips can be found at the links.
- I’ll hopefully post some video’s and pics soon, but for now it’s time for a nap and then Lisa and I will be off for a vacation before we start the real work of getting the new church up and running.
- Thanks again and much love to you all!
Inside Today’s Experiences
- Sorry I haven’t gotten to these the last two weeks.
- Great day today as we started my final series as the pastor of the United Worship Experience.
- Had 7 more people make 1st time professions of faith…as I said at the end of the message…”Don’t ever let that get old”.
- We started the “What’s Hot Now” series by taking a look at what spiritual meaning can be taken out of One Republic’s hit song, All the Right Moves.
- As usual the band did and awesome job with not just the worship stuff but doing a cover of this as well.
- Brian was excited because in addition to the drums we also used a drum machine to get some other cool effects.
- Great energy in both crowds today…think the 2nd Experience crowed actually was a bit rowdier than the 1st Experience crowd which is unusual…great job everyone…love that excitement.
- I had fun preaching today’s message..already getting lots of positive feedback…or maybe it’s just that I told everyone to tell me it was a great message.
- If that doesn’t make sense, you’ll have to listen for the context.
- Funniest thing that many might not have been able to see was the band dancing off stage to Imma Be which is the song in the bumper video Aaron created.
- Fun that is until Thom knocked over a light getting his groove on during the 2nd Experience. :)
- Can’t wait until next week as we do some cool things as we look at Twitter.
- Don’t forget to sign-up this week.
- Remember as long as you have an account and can text from you phone you’ll be easily able to participate.
- Just go to the Twitter account settings page and add your cell to turn on this feature.
- Ok time for a nap…have a great week.
Inside Today’s Experiences
- Another awesome day!
- 5 more people gave their lives to Christ!
- The day got started a little earlier than normal since we launched Fellowship One officially today.
- I’ve been working on this project since last June so it was good to have another big part of it roll out.
- For a few weeks lines will be long as people get used to checking in their kids, but for the most part everything went smoothly and I didn’t hear any complaints.
- As for the Experience itself, it was a really smooth day.
- Brian and Thom did a great job of re-deploying some of our lighting and it added for some neat new effects.
- Aaron and Adam also did a great job with the graphics and video packages.
- I really like how Aaron put together video backgrounds for each song that were series specific.
- As I said last week, there is an incredible team that works behind the scenes that make each Experience so memorable.
- Thanks to everyone who serves…it was great being back to normal today.
- Nice big crowds in both Experiences and full of energy…especially the 9:45.
- As I said all day…I’m really excited about this series on love.
- Don’t forget this week to keep reading Philippians 2:3-8 and to find practical ways each day to make love a verb.
- Next week we’ll find out how to take these verses and apply them to your marriage.
- Go ahead and invite someone…they’ll be glad you did.
- Time for a nap…see you next week!
Inside Today’s Experiences
- Wow what a day!
- 13 more people became followers of Christ today…amazing!
- Wish the roads hadn’t been so bad so more people could have been there, but God knows exactly who needed to be there and they were.
- The set-up for the morning was interesting with people rolling in when they could because of the bad weather.
- In fact, Aaron never made it to church until the 2nd Experience which kept us from having the dance part of the Experience that we had planned.
- Oh well at least he and everyone appear to be safe.
- Great to be able to dedicate 6 children this morning.
- Even better was I was able to get the baby to stop crying during the first one.
- Usually I have the opposite effect. :)
- The first Experience had a lot of behind the scenes technical issues, but as usual the team covered them well and for the most part I don’t think it was too evident.
- To be honest God really did something awesome with today’s message. I felt comfortable with it, but once it was actually being delivered I realized that God might be up to something special.
- As I shared after each message, we can never allow God showing up like that and people giving their lives to Christ to get old.
- What an honor that we get to serve Him!
- Met a group of people after the first Experience from the Hanover First Church of God.
- They are getting ready to start a contemporary Experience and came by United to get some ideas.
- I absolutely love being able to help other churches in any way that we can!
- Please pray for them as they get started.
- I also had some family in attendance at the 2nd Experience including 3 from FL.
- Welcome to our weather!
- Well time for a nap…day’s like this always kick my butt.
Inside Today’s Experiences
- I’m useless without my wife.
- What’s that have to do with today…
- She had her wisdom teeth taken out Wednesday and has been having trouble sleeping so she slept in the guest room last night so I could get a good night’s sleep.
- She’s the one who is normally in charge of the alarm clock and even though I set it and double check it last night…I still messed up.
- Imagine my surprise when she wakes me up this morning at 8:30 and says, “Aren’t you supposed to be at church now?”
- Oops…luckily the team is proficient enough to function without me during set up and our morning run-through.
- Except that someone forgot to unlock the back stage door (which I normally do) so when I went to go on stage during the 1st Experience, I was again greatly surprised to be locked out.
- Other than that it was a really good day.
- The team and both crowds were really energetic, which makes preaching so much easier then.
- Have already had about a dozen people stop me to say how convicting today’s message was.
- Andrea absolutely tore it up on the song “Battlefield”…great job!
- I think everyone had fun with the word S’mikheh.
- Aaron heard me preach a similar message to this one 3+ years ago where I talked about S’mikheh and he still says it from time to time.
- Two of the ladies back in the tech area this morning thought that it was funny that I wear stage make-up on Sunday’s.
- Hey it’s not like I’m Adam Lambert or anything, but a little foundation to smooth the skin and cut down on the glare never hurt anyone. :)
- Please pray for our bass guitarist Brett. He never showed up today and we’re hoping he just overslept since he works late on Saturday night’s. Or since we had practice on Saturday instead of Thursday because of Thanksgiving, it’s also possible that he thinks today is Friday. In any case we’re worried about him since we still haven’t been able to reach him.
- All in all I really enjoyed this series…Brian designed an awesome stage…we got to hear from Doug for the first time…many more people came into a relationship with Jesus…lives were changed…all because Jesus is a Maverick unlike any other.
- Tonight is Hanging of the Greens or HotG as we like to call it. Only time I get to hear I’m hot. :)
- Have a great week. Be sure to invite a lot of people as we kick-off the PARTY series next week.