As I’ve said we’ve worked TIRELESSLY (especially Adam) on a short film for our CSI series leading into launch. We unvelied 2 episodes today at church. I mistakenly said you could view them on our web-site. You can’t now but Adam is getting them up tomorrow. Go to www.elementweb.net and then click “watch and listen” to find them.
Sunday night, tired and RIP ROARIN’READY TO GO!
16 09 2007HA! Good title huh? I’m VERY tired right now so this could get REAL random. I’m already to go this week. Can’t wait to get started.
Sunday mornings I get up at 4:30 AM so I can get my devotions in, prep my sermon one more time and then get to the office to pick up our trailer. I didn’t use to do devotions on Sunday. Don’t know why. Guess I felt church was my devotions. MAN, has it helped me to get up early and do them. Just starts off Sunday with a Word TO me before I go deliver the Word.
I picked up Adam at 6:15 and he said “I love Sundays!” I do too. They are extremely hard but MAN do I love what we do. I know it’s early but being portable hasn’t bothered me yet. It’s definitely hard work but I love our theater. I love the feel in there. I can’t wait to continue and add stuff to our set up.
We had one new family today in church. Other than that we were way down. My family was all home sick, another family with 5 kids was all home sick. I am getting impatient with seeing people come. Shouldn’t be. We have over 60 giving and serving in Element Church which is AWESOME!
Our volunteers are off the hook! (Really good if you don’t know what that means) We have our group that shows up at 7 AM each Sunday to do our set up. We have awesome greeters, e:kidz volunteers, band. The band was great today. Adam played the piano for the first time ever in front of people. They played “Can Anybody Hear Her” by Casting Crowns in the middle of my sermon as an illustration.
Nick (dude in our church) made me an absolutely KICKIN‘ podium. He has his own iron/art business. He’s a biker not sure he’d want me to call it art. It is sweet! Gotta be the coolest podium ever. Has our element cross on it. I’ll post a picture tomorrow.
WE UNVEILED OUR VIDEOS TODAY! We finally were able to show our video we produced. (first two episodes) You can watch them online if you go to www.elementweb.net Adam, Keenan, and Curtis did incredible jobs with this thing.
Keenan stepped up and ran sound and lights today. Ben ran the computer. I felt our transitions were light years ahead of where we’ve been. Videos, lights, sound just flowed really well.
Ok, enough randomness for one night. I’ll post a weekend wrapup tomorrow when I get the stats from Terri. Oh yeah, she had donuts and coffee there for us at 7 AM this morning. WAY TO GO TERRI!
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Sunday night, tired and RIP ROARIN’READY TO GO!
16 09 2007HA! Good title huh? I’m VERY tired right now so this could get REAL random. I’m already to go this week. Can’t wait to get started.
Sunday mornings I get up at 4:30 AM so I can get my devotions in, prep my sermon one more time and then get to the office to pick up our trailer. I didn’t use to do devotions on Sunday. Don’t know why. Guess I felt church was my devotions. MAN, has it helped me to get up early and do them. Just starts off Sunday with a Word TO me before I go deliver the Word.
I picked up Adam at 6:15 and he said “I love Sundays!” I do too. They are extremely hard but MAN do I love what we do. I know it’s early but being portable hasn’t bothered me yet. It’s definitely hard work but I love our theater. I love the feel in there. I can’t wait to continue and add stuff to our set up.
We had one new family today in church. Other than that we were way down. My family was all home sick, another family with 5 kids was all home sick. I am getting impatient with seeing people come. Shouldn’t be. We have over 60 giving and serving in Element Church which is AWESOME!
Our volunteers are off the hook! (Really good if you don’t know what that means) We have our group that shows up at 7 AM each Sunday to do our set up. We have awesome greeters, e:kidz volunteers, band. The band was great today. Adam played the piano for the first time ever in front of people. They played “Can Anybody Hear Her” by Casting Crowns in the middle of my sermon as an illustration.
Nick (dude in our church) made me an absolutely KICKIN‘ podium. He has his own iron/art business. He’s a biker not sure he’d want me to call it art. It is sweet! Gotta be the coolest podium ever. Has our element cross on it. I’ll post a picture tomorrow.
WE UNVEILED OUR VIDEOS TODAY! We finally were able to show our video we produced. (first two episodes) You can watch them online if you go to www.elementweb.net Adam, Keenan, and Curtis did incredible jobs with this thing.
Keenan stepped up and ran sound and lights today. Ben ran the computer. I felt our transitions were light years ahead of where we’ve been. Videos, lights, sound just flowed really well.
Ok, enough randomness for one night. I’ll post a weekend wrapup tomorrow when I get the stats from Terri. Oh yeah, she had donuts and coffee there for us at 7 AM this morning. WAY TO GO TERRI!
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Sunday night, tired and RIP ROARIN’READY TO GO!
16 09 2007HA! Good title huh? I’m VERY tired right now so this could get REAL random. I’m already to go this week. Can’t wait to get started.
Sunday mornings I get up at 4:30 AM so I can get my devotions in, prep my sermon one more time and then get to the office to pick up our trailer. I didn’t use to do devotions on Sunday. Don’t know why. Guess I felt church was my devotions. MAN, has it helped me to get up early and do them. Just starts off Sunday with a Word TO me before I go deliver the Word.
I picked up Adam at 6:15 and he said “I love Sundays!” I do too. They are extremely hard but MAN do I love what we do. I know it’s early but being portable hasn’t bothered me yet. It’s definitely hard work but I love our theater. I love the feel in there. I can’t wait to continue and add stuff to our set up.
We had one new family today in church. Other than that we were way down. My family was all home sick, another family with 5 kids was all home sick. I am getting impatient with seeing people come. Shouldn’t be. We have over 60 giving and serving in Element Church which is AWESOME!
Our volunteers are off the hook! (Really good if you don’t know what that means) We have our group that shows up at 7 AM each Sunday to do our set up. We have awesome greeters, e:kidz volunteers, band. The band was great today. Adam played the piano for the first time ever in front of people. They played “Can Anybody Hear Her” by Casting Crowns in the middle of my sermon as an illustration.
Nick (dude in our church) made me an absolutely KICKIN‘ podium. He has his own iron/art business. He’s a biker not sure he’d want me to call it art. It is sweet! Gotta be the coolest podium ever. Has our element cross on it. I’ll post a picture tomorrow.
WE UNVEILED OUR VIDEOS TODAY! We finally were able to show our video we produced. (first two episodes) You can watch them online if you go to www.elementweb.net Adam, Keenan, and Curtis did incredible jobs with this thing.
Keenan stepped up and ran sound and lights today. Ben ran the computer. I felt our transitions were light years ahead of where we’ve been. Videos, lights, sound just flowed really well.
Ok, enough randomness for one night. I’ll post a weekend wrapup tomorrow when I get the stats from Terri. Oh yeah, she had donuts and coffee there for us at 7 AM this morning. WAY TO GO TERRI!
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It’s Thursday…But Sunday’s a comin’!
13 09 2007MAN am I glad we did 2 other previews before this last weekend. This is the first week that we had to turn around on Monday and start getting ready for a “full” church service again. As of today, we are farther along in preparation than we have been on any other preview. Obviously, getting ready for our fourth preview things are getting smoother. With my personality though, once things get smooth we’re gonna have to shake em’up a bit. When things get smooth it means it’s time to add something. Go bigger. Get more creative. We’re already talking about what we’re going to add to our set up, stage, kids area, lighting, etc. I don’t ever want to get to the point where we’ve “made it” and get complacent. If we feel like we’ve made it that’s a SURE sign that something needs to change. There are always more people to reach, better ideas to think of, new messages to preach, new songs to sing, new methods to use and new stress to take on. HA To me the tension and stress of doing church keeps me motivated. I know this sounds weird but I don’t want to feel calm about church. I get nervous EVERY TIME. Why? Because the Almighty God has asked US to carry HIS message of Life. That makes me nervous. It makes me want Sunday morning to be done with such excellence and relevance so we don’t hinder what God wants them to hear. It makes me want to go ALL OUT with a great presentation of the Gospel because the Gospel has gone ALL OUT for us. Ok, what started as a “We’re doing good on getting Sunday stuff done” post turned into “How can we do more” post. How does that happen?
Following Christ,
Jeff
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It’s Thursday…But Sunday’s a comin’!
13 09 2007MAN am I glad we did 2 other previews before this last weekend. This is the first week that we had to turn around on Monday and start getting ready for a “full” church service again. As of today, we are farther along in preparation than we have been on any other preview. Obviously, getting ready for our fourth preview things are getting smoother. With my personality though, once things get smooth we’re gonna have to shake em’up a bit. When things get smooth it means it’s time to add something. Go bigger. Get more creative. We’re already talking about what we’re going to add to our set up, stage, kids area, lighting, etc. I don’t ever want to get to the point where we’ve “made it” and get complacent. If we feel like we’ve made it that’s a SURE sign that something needs to change. There are always more people to reach, better ideas to think of, new messages to preach, new songs to sing, new methods to use and new stress to take on. HA To me the tension and stress of doing church keeps me motivated. I know this sounds weird but I don’t want to feel calm about church. I get nervous EVERY TIME. Why? Because the Almighty God has asked US to carry HIS message of Life. That makes me nervous. It makes me want Sunday morning to be done with such excellence and relevance so we don’t hinder what God wants them to hear. It makes me want to go ALL OUT with a great presentation of the Gospel because the Gospel has gone ALL OUT for us. Ok, what started as a “We’re doing good on getting Sunday stuff done” post turned into “How can we do more” post. How does that happen?
Following Christ,
Jeff
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It’s Thursday…But Sunday’s a comin’!
13 09 2007MAN am I glad we did 2 other previews before this last weekend. This is the first week that we had to turn around on Monday and start getting ready for a “full” church service again. As of today, we are farther along in preparation than we have been on any other preview. Obviously, getting ready for our fourth preview things are getting smoother. With my personality though, once things get smooth we’re gonna have to shake em’up a bit. When things get smooth it means it’s time to add something. Go bigger. Get more creative. We’re already talking about what we’re going to add to our set up, stage, kids area, lighting, etc. I don’t ever want to get to the point where we’ve “made it” and get complacent. If we feel like we’ve made it that’s a SURE sign that something needs to change. There are always more people to reach, better ideas to think of, new messages to preach, new songs to sing, new methods to use and new stress to take on. HA To me the tension and stress of doing church keeps me motivated. I know this sounds weird but I don’t want to feel calm about church. I get nervous EVERY TIME. Why? Because the Almighty God has asked US to carry HIS message of Life. That makes me nervous. It makes me want Sunday morning to be done with such excellence and relevance so we don’t hinder what God wants them to hear. It makes me want to go ALL OUT with a great presentation of the Gospel because the Gospel has gone ALL OUT for us. Ok, what started as a “We’re doing good on getting Sunday stuff done” post turned into “How can we do more” post. How does that happen?
Following Christ,
Jeff
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Billboards
11 09 2007Here is a picture of our first billboard to go up on Lincolnway. We have four of them, all on MAJOR roads (South Greeley HWY, Dell Range, Pershing and Lincolnway) We’re taking a big risk in doing these billboards in that we’re not putting our church name on the sign at all. We want people to get to the web-site out of curiosity and see what we’re doing. Just a simple yet creative way to direct people to our web.
(click on the pictures to see a much larger view)
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Got this email from someone who attended Element this past weekend. Always encouraging to hear good reports. (Names have not been included to protect the innocent)
Hey Jeff,
Just wanted to drop a quick note to say how impressed we were with Element on Sunday. It looks like you’ve got a great crew to support you. We were also happy to see a few familiar faces there!
It’s apparent that you’re busy, but would love to get together with you sometime for coffee or something?
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Friday Night Lights
7 09 2007No not high school football but watching the stars on the trampoline. I mowed the lawn tonight and kept an eye on the kids as they played on the tramp while Sabrina worked in her office. As I was finishing up around 7:30 PM I thought how cool it would be to get on the tramp and see if they would watch the sky turn dark and stars show up with me. THEY DID! It was a blast. We spotted the first star at about 7:40 PM at about dusk. As it grew darker the kids were amazed at the stars popping up. Makalah laid on my chest nearly the entire time (how can you go wrong with that? My little care bear cuddling on a cool night). Mariah couldn’t stop asking if “bad guy’s” could get us in the back yard. And Jonah couldn’t stop asking if he could sleep out there. To be honest I didn’t think he would do it. The pictures below show otherwise. He got all bundled up (getting down in 40′s here now overnight) and got the sleeping bag and a flashlight and hit the tramp. He fell asleep in about 20 minutes. These pictures are great. It was just a cool time with the fam tonight. Mariah was freakin‘ when she went to bed. Still thinking bad guys were gonna get her brother. I should hide Jonah and tell her in the morning that they did. HA! Now that would be funny.
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