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October 11, 2009 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Had a lot of fun today.
  • Any time I get to share vision, I’m especially amped up.
  • Things ran really smoothly today which is always a nice thing.
  • The 9:45 crowd was rocking…love when I can hear you guys singing your hearts out.
  • All the team did an exceptional job…great job guys and gals.
  • Wow for the second week in a row, Gayle made me cry.
  • We are so blessed to have some world class female singers in the church.
  • I love how God takes the words I’ve been preparing with His help for weeks and then transforms them into something completely different on Sunday’s.
  • I felt really good about both messages but they came out so different.
  • Wasn’t sure which one to post, but finally went with the 9:45.
  • My prayer is that this message will sink in and all of us, would see the lost and hurting in our community as our problem.
  • For this week’s Reality Check video with Satan, click here.
  • I’m taking the creative team away this afternoon through tomorrow so we can pray and brainstorm what the 2010 series schedule will look like…keep us in prayer.

Filed Under: Inside Today's Experience's, Uncategorized Tagged With: Capital campaign, creative team, Gayle Krull, gilbert thurston, Reality Check series, sacrifice, satan, United Worship Experience, video

Inside Today’s Experience

October 4, 2009 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

  • Weird day only having one Experience.
  • Weird things happened as well.
  • We found a mouse nest in the tech room.
  • And we had some lights doing some crazy things during the Experience.
  • Hope the mice aren’t chewing the wires making that happen.
  • In any case no one probably knew about the lighting problems because they were actually creating a neat effect.
  • It’s hard not to sound biased since Gayle is one of my best friends, but her singing today was awesome.
  • Love the new song “Revelation Song” which she led…wow…I couldn’t help but to just fall to my knees backstage and worship!
  • As always we had a lot of fun shooting the videos fro this series.
  • Brian does an incredible job as Satan and thanks to Scott McCurley for playing the role of Reality.
  • To watch me get “Reality Checked”, you can watch the video here.
  • Wasn’t really sure I was pleased with today’s message going into it, but I was pleased with what came out.
  • Think it gave everyone a lot to think about.
  • God is good in that way…in my weakness, He is strong.
  • After United, it was a quick turnover to reset the room and get everyone ready for the capital campaign kick-off service in the sanctuary.
  • Great job by Juanita Kauffman and her team in organizing everything.
  • In my 3 years of being at the church, that’s probably the best combined service we’ve ever had.
  • It’s so hard combining so many styles and have everyone be pleased with it, but I think today’s service was very respectful to everyone and was actually quite good.
  • I was told my job was to get the crowd fired up…think it worked.  :)
  • The meal with everyone was also really cool…who knew we could put 550+ people in the gym and feed them all.
  • Got to meet a lot of people during the meal, including a former classmate of mine.
  • That now makes 3 other people from my graduating class that attend United.
  • What’s amazing about that is we grew up 45 minutes away.
  • All in all, a good day!
  • Time for a quick nap then off to friend’s house for dinner.

Filed Under: Inside Today's Experience's Tagged With: Brian Miller, Capital campaign, Gayle Krull, gilbert thurston, Juanita Kauffman, Reality Check series, satan, Scott McCurley, United Worship Experience

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