Again heard through texts and seeing people in person at lunch that you guys had a good day today.
Hope you got a lot out of Francis Chan’s messgae…love that guy.
When I was in Orlando a few months back I got to meet him. (pictured above).
The best part of that day though was the hilarious intro he got.
As for us…today we visited King Street Church, right here in Chambersburg.
King Street is the area’s largest church but until today I had not had the opportunity to visit them.
Unfortuantely I didn’t read their web-site well enough and we ended up at their blended service instead of the contemporary one.
However, that was by far the best blended service I’ve ever seen.
Their 50+ member choir rocked it out.
I guess the thing I liked best about them wasn’t neccisarily their song selection or singing ability but the “attitude” in which they sang.
They were having fun and you could tell they really believed what they were singing.
They had a guest speaker so I wasn’t able to gauge that aspect of their services, although the guest speaker gave a good message on compassion.
One funny thing happened…the lady sitting next to me stole mu bulletin. Don’t think she did it intentionally but I was partially sitting on it so you’d have thought she’d have at least asked.
One other cool thing was seeing that Ryan Payne was playing acoustic guitar, in the background, for King Street’s worship team.
Ryan’s band is really growing and has quite a following and I expect one day they will be signed by a major Christian label. Neat to see hi humble himself to serve.
Reminds me of what Brian Houston, pastor of Hillsong Church, said about Darlene Zschech when she was becoming famous…”She has never forgotten that she’s to still serve in her home church”.
After the service was over I got to meet the Senior Pastor, John Beukema. Seems like a nice guy and I’m proud that we get to partner with King Street and so many other great churches in our area to reach people for Christ.
I’ve said it before an I’ll say it again…It’s not about United or CFCOG, it’s about Jesus and the Church which He died for. I’m glad we have other great churches in our area…we’re not in competition, but partners together.
We meet with Lisa’s sister and her family for lunch at Red Robin. The 4 of them plus Lisa and I all share birthday’s within about a 40 day period…4 of us within 11 days…so this turned out to be our birthday meal.
Funny thing was Lisa and Gayle were texting each other while we were there. I look up and over in the corner were the whole Krull family having lunch. In other words Lisa and Gayle were in the same restaurant texting each other and didn’t even know it.
Of course we had some fun sending her texts about things she was doing and wearing…finally she caught on and realized we were there.
Time for a nap and then our normal Sunday night crew will be getting together.
Vacation is almost done…enjoyed it and for the most part I’m refreshed…can’t wait to see everyone next week!
Got to spend time with a few other guys from our region, including Mike Schooley who started United back in 2005 before heading to New York to start his own church.
Mike and I roomed together and every night after we’d turn the lights out we’d talk and dream about church stuff for a long time.
I told him the last night I was going to miss our “Walton’s Family” chats.
The worst part of the trip was when my good friend Chuck Frank had to fly home early because his wife, Tammy, fell and broke her ankle.
Please keep them in prayer…it’s going to be a long recovery process and may still require more surgery.
I got a ton of great ideas at the conference and can’t wait to try some of them out.
The pic above is of their sanctuary. To try to give you some perspective, there were 3000 people at the conference and almost everyone sat on the floor level.
Perhaps the highlight of week was the very last thing. Not only did Francis Chan deliever a great talk, but the intro that was given for him left everyone…including Francis saying wow!
Got to meet Francis then at the airport that day and he was still talking about it.
Was finally able to get the interview with Satan video online from the “Finding the One” message. To watch it, click here.
Satan will be making another appearance this week as a part of the message about sex called, “It’s Business Time”.
Seriously the entire Experience is something that is going to be talked about for a long time…
…we have things in store for you that you just simply will have to be there to believe.
For those that can’t make it, the number of downloads I’m sure is going to not just break but shatter every record we have.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) I’m speaking for our denomination on how to reach the 18-35 crowd.
