- Eric came in on Saturday after a 17 hour day including a 7 hour taxi drive from Syracuse.
- Church was canceled on Sunday due to 2ft of snow.
- 3 Christmas experiences in 2 days.
- Close to 800 people in attendance.
- About 24 people crossed over from death to life.
- “That Night” was a huge success…people saw Jesus as more than just a baby.
- A relationship with God was enabled because of that night.
- God uses the ordinary to the extrodinary.
- I am on a 5 day “cat hatred” sabbatical…to be honest it is actually tough.
- We are speaking next week on, Leaving Your Mark.
- Salome is speaking on the 10th of January.
- Eric begins his “full time” reign on the 17th with a series called…BRICKS. (I believe)
- Set design was ridiculous. Dan McInnes and Ben Jones were awesome at that.
- Jeff Ream and the praise band did a great job…a lot of stuff to learn and people saw church differently because of them.
- Eric did a great job on his talks…people walked out saying he was so funny.
- Volunteers were amazing getting everything set up and torn down.
- 74% of our people serve in an area of the church…wow!
- The staff has been stretched and is better because of it.
- I believe that God is up to something here…and I believe God is reigniting the passion in the local church all over the United States.
- Just in the churches that I watch…thousands of people put their trust in Him.
- Grandfather died on Friday
- Somehow God gave strength in the moment
- I am more than happy based on our talk today with it
- Setup and tear down went flawless and I am so pumped about that
- Our worship band did awesome today
- Had a great time speaking today…it was hard because God has been kicking my butt all week
- Cannot wait until next week!!!
- Heard so many people today talk about how they were searching for happiness and not holiness
- We had a lot of guest today and one said, “that was church, I am so coming back!” Love to hear that
- Life groups went well tonight, some just took off to hang out together
- Can’t wait for UNITED next week
- I get to check out Shore Fellowship’s youth program on Wednesday…Eric Meyers is doing a great job there
- In no particular order…
- Matthew started baseball yesterday. Crushes the ball but still learning to catch. He is so quick. Love to watch him try. Likes baseball better than soccer because he doesn’t have to run as much.
- Kevin Short may be the smartest preacher I have ever met. Dude can pull more out of one passage than I can out of the entire Bible.
- Worship was awesome this weekend. Jeff and his team did a great job.
- Went to Shore Fellowship this week with Ben and learned so much. Walked out with a cool perspective on ministry. Thanks Shore for invite.
- Had a chance to speak at Delaware Women’s Prison and saw God bring 62 women into a relationship with Him.
- We had the privilege to baptize 13 people today and 5 of them were students.
- We have baptized 19 students this year. How cool is that? I know of churches that don’t do that many in a year.
- We had 63 students at life groups last week which is what we were averaging pre-renovations of the loft.
- We are averaging 122 students at UNITED since our renovations.
- We have over 40 students who serve on Sunday morning each week.
- I am getting my butt kicked in March Madness…but have almost every team in the Sweet Sixteen, how is that possible?
- Wawa toasted flat bread is good.
- Had Famous Daves three times last week…convinced there will be one in heaven.
- Got to give a shout out to one of my faithful blog followers who is down…Betty Malar, get better Betty we miss you.
- More and more students are twittering and we are leveraging technology to connect them with God.
- We are starting our series called SEXED on April 4th at UNITED.
- We have a ton of Urban Promise stuff coming up thanks to Mary Davis planning.
- God continues to blow me away at how he is stretching our staff.
- Watching the apprentice and I don’t like Clint Black, I may never listen to his songs again.
- Our volunteers did a great job today.
- New volunteers are awesome and I was so thankful for them today.
- Had a blast with Matthew this weekend.
- I’m exhausted…peace out blog world
- Buddy Cremeans brought it today talking about honor
- Donny and the praise ninjas did a phenomenal job, very proud of them
- My son came in to worship with us this morning because he loves music and when I raised my hands to sing so did he. So cute, he had no idea why he was but so cute how he followed what daddy did.
- Baptism next Sunday, love to see life change happen
- We had over 50 new volunteers sign up to serve in setup and take down
- We had over 50 new people sign up for life groups
- We had 63 at life groups tonight, we continue to grow. 2 months ago that is what we had at UNITED.
- We are averaging 122 since renovating our youth room…environments matter
- Jessica had a birthday today. She is a phenomenal woman whom I don’t deserve
- UNITED was awesome last night.
- Our Fellowship staff did an amazing job of doing everything technical
- We almost were streaming live but ran into some last minute glitches…I think next month might be the month
- Our praise band was awesome. Donny has really developed into a great worship leader and we so many guys sacrifice and give time last night to really rock some difficult songs.
- Launched the Nickelback song Gotta Be Somebody and it was good.
- Did a cool abstract art piece during worship that was pretty powerful.
- Talked about respecting and honoring families.
- Had 107 total with 5 students receiving Christ
- Church was good today…we had so many people sign up to get into a life group and to serve on Sunday mornings.
- Not to late to sign up for that.
- We have a baptism March 22 and some of our students are getting really excited.
- Great turnout tonight for life groups.
- Got a lot of students to start Twittering.
- Heading to a camp planning meeting tomorrow
- Great weekend!
- Cool diversity in church this morning
- Our teens stepped up huge taking care of things
- Cool night in life groups
- Great turnout
- Hostage has been a great series for our teens
- Hostage has been a great series for me
- We have the best elders anywhere
- We have the best youth staff anywhere
- We have the best pastor anywhere
- Looking forward to what God is going to be doing at Fellowship church
