Jan

Today was our first “public” worship service at Cedar Creek West. We saw God bring 441 people to our new campus, 289 adults and 152 kids age birth through 12th grade.

 

Great message from Phillip today on “Getting Ready” for God to do something huge in our lives and the life of our church and community.

 

Video teaching is definitely a God thing.  Folks interacted and seemed to enjoy the recorded message.  Some even thought it was live-streamed from Banks Mill.

 

The TEAM…man, I’m just blown away.  Set up was accomplished in just under 2 ½ hours today.  If you haven’t seen the amount of stuff they set up, that number doesn’t mean much to you.  When we have to go to two services, that quick set up will definitely be key.

 

Meeting this week (hopefully) on getting the fiber issues nailed down to move forward with live streaming the message.

 

Alan Jones, our media pastor, knew exactly what he was doing when he ordered all the stuff that makes the west campus experience POP!   You are the man brother.

 

GRACE Kidz saw a new family today, brought by a family who came last week to our “soft launch” invitation only service on the 11th.  God is Reaching All Children Everywhere…and it’s so cool to see.

 

The BAND…rocked!

 

Still have some sound issues with overlap from KidzWorship but that seems to be something that we will just have to deal withfor the duration.  Timing of both experiences may help but won’t be possible every week due to worship programming and flow.

 

We only broke one piece of plastic molding which seems to be something that has happened before.  I’m sure we’ll hear about it and we’ll gladly fix it or pay for it.  We’re going to have to slow down a bit in bringing racks and stuff into the gyms.  We’re moving fast to get set up done but can’t jack up the place every Sunday.  We’ll work out the bugs, I’m sure.

 

Had four new families sign up to CONNECT in a HOME group.  That is what we are all about.  We are a church OF groups, not a church WITH groups…and there is a difference.  Life change happens in the context of community and doing life together.

 

That being said, I’m totally pumped for “More Than Me,” Phillip’s message series that starts next week.  We will read through the Purpose Driven Life over 40 days while hearing a message each of the next six Sundays and having HOME group studies that correspond.

 

The campus pastor (me) forgot to mention that we had PDL books for sale, $8 for folks, free for HOME group leaders. Guess there will be a run on the connection kiosk next Sunday.

2 Comments »

1. 

   Hey Man,
   Great comments. Do you realize that 34.5% of our attendance was under 18. That’s awesome and scary all that the same time!!

   Comment by Jay Judy — January 19, 2009 @ 11:20 am

2. 

   Wes I am so very happy to hear of God’s work and the all of the people who attended last Sunday. I pray for all of you and look forward to hearing of the many more people that will be joining you on Sunday mornings. Thank you to all of the staff and volunteers for making this possible. God is wonderful and so are his mighty servants!

   Comment by Lee Ogden — January 20, 2009 @ 9:45 am

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