9 April 2007
“thank you, thank you, thank you!”
So many things about yesterday honestly blew me away, from the turn out (despite the coldest April day in Charlotte HISTORY), to the music, to the ENERGY and fun, to the honest celebration from the heart of a couple thousand people — it was all great!
Two things that stand out for me today, however, we’re the number of adults who gave their lives to Christ (131!! Yeah God!!) and the incredible job of our volunteers both in the ministry fair and in making the day flow so smoothly.
E-mails and blog comments are still coming in about how Jesus changed lives at the services yesterday. I have a feeling they’ll be coming in for a good while 
! I learned that I need a better system for identifying so many people with their hands raised (hands went up, hands went down, hands went up again, some stayed up, some flew up in the closing seconds) best we can tell there were at least 131 people who committed their lives yesterday. I think next time I’ll take a page out of the Clayton King play-book and have them stand — It’s the least we can do after all that Christ has done! Besides, they are less likely to “stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight,” that way (unless it was at Mass and they were doing that anyway 
!
Oh lighten up! Take a joke!
And as far as the Ministry Fair goes, it was OFF THE HOOK! I honestly did not expect that much effort to go into that thing and I believe the effort paid off as the ministry fair was slammed. Last time I saw a line like that it was for the opening of Star Wars! It was so far beyond fire code it wasn’t even funny!
Oops, was that out loud?
Every ministry pulled out all the stops. Take a look at a couple pictures from it…enjoy!
The Crowd
The Booths (some of them)
1st Impressions Ministry
Production Ministry
Worship Ministry Booth
All in all, A GREAT DAY!!
Oh, did I remember to say, “THANK YOU!?”
3 Comments currently posted.
JT says:
KL TRJ says:
Thanks for a nice Easter Service and message.
KL TRJ says:
When is construction starting on a new building?
What an awesome day at Southbrook yesterday. First service was off the hook!! The band was incredible as always and the message wasn’t too bad either!
I too was surprised to see so many people turn out for the 9:00am service. Do you think God was saying that the new building needs to be bigger? I know I harp on this alot, but I really, really, really think we need to take a look at it! 1300 people for two services that’s only 5200 at four weekend services. If we bump it ever so slightly to 2000 that is potentially 8000 people a weekend. God is Big and so are the number of people that are moving to this area. Is God trying to tell us something? Its your vision and God is speaking to you about it. I hope that it’s being talked about…we can do it, because God is on our side, who can be against us? God is on our side we don’t need to be afraid. Though the mountains may fall and the skies will crumble, there ain’t nothing going to stand in our way!