Hey Element Church! Here are my Ruminations on the day.
— 564 attendance today.
— Not sure if it was more even but it sure seemed that the two services evened out a bit. First service seemed to have more than last week. We have extra seats. LET’S FILL EM’ UP!
— Still feels weird to me. Getting better but just such a different feel. I LOVE having the extra space on stage and having people not literally sitting next to the platform is way easier to connect with faces.
— Good song set you guys selected for today. Loved that we did Yearn again. Haven’t done that one in a while. Glad it was one that won too. Shows how good of a song writer Adam is.
— We’re having issues with sound. Not sure if anyone notices but we’re having major difficulty getting the sound the way we want it. A lot has to do with the wider room and lower ceilings. just struggling to get the right fill, tone, volume, etc. We’ll discuss that a LOT in our meetings tomorrow.
— I tried to be cool today and hung out in the sound booth for second service worship. Here are a couple pics of the crew.
Nice face Andy
— I did a little dance for the tech crew in the sound booth.
— We have a GREAT and VERY committed tech crew. We’re running two computers, sound board, light board and video camera right now. Good job today Andy, Ben, Nate, Jerry and Jason.
— Did a stand alone message called “The movies @ Element Church” today. It was a look back over what God has done this past year and a look ahead with some vision of what we feel God wants us to do coming up. Here are some specific things we talked about coming up for Element.
… Hiring Andy full time as youth pastor. We’d like to do this by February 1st. Fusion has around 50 students coming each week and Andy is doing it ALL volunteer. We want to give our BEST to the students and that starts with giving them a full time youth pastor.
… We have over 100 kids in our ekidz program each week. We need to seriously look at hiring an ekidz pastor. It’s time. I really feel like not much more can happen with kids our youth until someone is hired. By the way. The people who are POURING their lives and volunteer time into those ministries are doing an AWESOME job. It’s just getting to the point that someone needs to be paid to oversee them.
… We feel like God is leading us to reach over into Laramie. We have some students driving over and have two young men from Element moving to Laramie. We’ll most likely look at starting a Life Group over there with the intent, if God leads that way, to eventually plant a campus over there. The teaching will be done by me via video. Everything else will be live. That is the goal and direction for now.
… We REALLY have a heart to see other church plants up and running as well. I have no idea what’s in store but we have always felt that God wanted us to help plant other churches. We want to see some action in that area this year.
… Increased outreach into the community. We can’t do everything but we can do more. We want to increase our outreach efforts to the city. Meeting practical needs of the community.
… Continuing to be who God wants us to be. We do church in a specific way for a specific reason. Remember God loves Cheyenne more than we do. We want people to find a home. The work on the church is not done. We’ll preach the truth even when it hurts. Our goal is that GOD will make an impact.
— Weird week only having two days in the office. Made today feel hurried when we got there. Couple of oversights on our behalf.
— Another great week at Element. Can’t wait to start our next series “21″. I’ll get some graphics and video up on the web this week. Pick up some invite cards to invite someone to come with you.
— I love leading you guys. You’re a GREAT church to be a part of.
Following Christ,
Jeff
