Preview Sunday

We had our first preview service this Sunday. It went over well. As of Monday it was going to be just me leading worship. But we wanted the feel of a band but had no one. But our intern Kyle knew a guy that was a part of the OWU ministry team that was coming in (which by the helped a ton) who was a drummer. So saturday night we set everything up ran through a practice with a full worship team and they did a great job. So to Blaine, Morgan, Kyle, Amber thanks for putting in the time, great job. I broke a string first song, which is always the fear as a guitar playing worship leader cause you can't exactly go do anything about it. But luckily we had put Jeff's intro slot right after the first song so I was able to change it fast. Fun Times. The stage was extremely small, the lights were really close and hot, our sound engineer had never seen a sound board before, we had lots of reasons to prove the need for doing a preview service. Its PRACTICE! But for our first service we felt like it went really well. Jeff did a great job with his message. He had a great opening cliff hanger story, then had props for each point. It was well presented. Our volunteers were priceless. We couldn't have set all that we did up in the time we did with out you. And greeters and children's workers, you were all essential to what happend Sunday. We had 75 people that attended with a few of them being from HPCC in Gillette (thanks for coming down). We had our first comments/critic write in on Monday morning, didn't see that coming (haha). But its good. Its good cause it challenges us to get better but it also challenges us to stick to what we know we are supposed to be doing. I think its timely cause Jeff just last week talked about people and their ideas but staying focused on what you know God has called you to.

So here we go. Back to Unplugged and casting vision. And preperation for our next preview on August 5th and then launch October 7th. I will post pictures and the service video later today.