Top 10 part 2

5 04 2008

YO Element Church! Here is #6 – 4. So hard to pick just 10 moments but I’m trying. Why am I doing this again? Oh yeah, thought it would be a good blog. And now…

#6 Our first preview service. Before we launched on October 7th of 2007, we did several preview services. Our first one was the first Sunday in July. A preview is just that, sneak peak at what the church will be like. It provides time for the church to “practice” what a Sunday will be like when they launch. Crazy to see our set up from then. We had to haul in every stage piece every week. You can read about it and look at pictures here, here and here.

#5 Two services. Funny how each decision we make gets bigger and bigger. Every decision, at the moment, seems like the biggest decision we’ve ever made. We actually struggled so much with going to two services. I can’t imagine NOT doing two, and now we’re doing three. If you’d have told me in November we’d be doing three by March, I would have needed a new pair of pants. You can read about two services here and here.

#4 Egg Drop and Easter: Ok, I’m running out of spots so I had to put two into one. Doing the egg drop and then the full house on Easter are tied for #4. Did I want to be this far by March in our church? YES! Was I shocked? YES! lol, every pastor wants their church to grow like this, but every pastor also knows that each church responds and moves at different paces. God has chosen to bless Element Church in the last 6 months. Here, here and here are Egg Drop and Easter thoughts.

Three through one coming soon!

Following Christ,

Jeff


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Top 10 part 1

3 04 2008

Hey Element Church! It’s been 10 months since we did our first major servant project and started our Unplugged services (June of 07). With that I wanted to offer my Element Top 10 moments. I’ll link you to a few of my archived blogs from my Top 10. It’s amazing where God has brought us in 10 months, and I think it’s fun to remember what has happened. So, without further adieu, the Element Top 10. Drum roll please….

#10 Starting Life Group and finding our office and finding the theater all in the same month. Here is a link to a blog on our Life Group. 13 people came. I remember how excited I was. It seemed like FOREVER before people came to our group. Here is a link to finding our office. MAN, God provided a great space for us. I think it was and is HUGE to start with an office as soon as possible. And Here is a link to our first tour through the theater. My comments are funny in light what we’re going through now.

#9 Egg Hunt Cancelled! In April of 07′ we were going to serve at the city egg hunt by providing inflatable games. This would have been our first face into the city. We put an ad in the paper and were REALLY excited about serving and then it got canceled. We were very bummed. Here, here and here are a some posts on it. And look at how GREAT this years event was.

#8 Christmas Outreach. This outreach wasn’t as “flashy” as some of the other things we have done but that wasn’t the point. I was SO excited to actually help out 4 specific moms and their families over Christmas. They were all blown away. Read about it here and here. 8 moms this year? 12? I hope to go all out again for some families.

#7 First Element Wedding. This was so much fun and it made it so much better to have my boy Grant help perform the ceremony. Read about it here.

This is hard. Didn’t know how hard it would be to pick 10. I’ll give you four more tomorrow. My top 2 are SET! Easy to name my top 2. But you’ll wait.

What are your favorite Element moments?


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Foolish

2 04 2008

This post by Mark Batterson of National Community Church in Washington D.C. was awesome!

Teaser: The people God uses the most are people that aren’t afraid of looking foolish. In fact, if you aren’t willing to look foolish you’re foolish!

Following Christ,

Jeff


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Heaven is big!

2 04 2008

Hey Element Church! No I didn’t have a near death experience, but I did figure out through studying my sermon that this is a HUGE subject to tackle. Holy cow! I’m excited about this Sunday’s message as we talk about Heaven. I REALLY struggled putting this message together the further I got in because of how much stuff you could talk about. The Bible has a lot to say about Heaven and we have LOTS of questions about it. I finally felt like I broke through this afternoon and I am very excited about the approach we’ll be taking as we look at Heaven. I hope we all have a greater understanding of Heaven and eternity after this Sunday.

I spoke at the MOPS group out at Cheyenne Hills this morning. I was a asked a few months ago to come speak on their “salvation message” day and was honored to do so. Adam and I definitely did NOT fit in a room full of women. It was a lot of fun and I appreciated the opportunity to share with the ladies.

I didn’t feel real well today. Battled a headache from about noon on. Not sure what was going on. Feel better now. Sab and the kids are over at a friends house so just waiting on them to return. I know, kind of a weird post.

Following Christ,

Jeff


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