Sunday Afterthoughts

Man nothing more frustrating than typing something and at the end your internet goes out when you post and its all gone. So here we go for try number 2.

Element Church has made it to 2 services. In the office this week Jeff and I were very nervous. I was nervous if anyone would even show up to our 9:00am service, or if we would setup in time, new musicians, new sound guy. There were a lot of uncertainties, but it went over well. Our volunteers were incredible today. We had a huge set up team that came at 6:30am and had the theater setup in 50 min. GO TEAM. They did a great job, and always looking for what's next. We actually got to serve a somewhat real breakfast for them today. Good Job guys and girls.

We added a new vocals/keyboard player, which made a great addition the team, Go JEN. We also picked up a new sound guy who has a great ear, knows a lot, and has a heart to serve. Jeff is finally out of that position which has been needed for a long time.

We had 81 in our first service and 107 in our second. So people came. YES! 10 people gave their lives to Christ today. I love this. This is what we are all about. We are really working on an effective way to get these people plugged into Life Groups and discipled on the decision that they have made.

This week we started something really neat called "what's your story". We set up a video booth in another theater across the hall where we are capturing testimonies from people in the church. On christmas sunday we will play them over the screen during our worship set. This will be a powerful time in our worship. There are so many stories out there of what God has been doing and we need to hear them.

We had a cool set design this week. We bought a star making machine to cast on the screen and the ceiling. Then we built a manger and hung tension fabric behind it to look like the series graphic that we mailed out. If you remember back to our "change" message during our "it" series we built an 8 Foot Lite Brite. So we did it again. We built a lite brite that said "BELIEVE" and then inside of that it said "KING". This was a very cool stage design for our new series. I will post pictures tomorrow and you can watch the video on wed. morning.

Jeff did a great job opening the series today, make sure you listen to the message.

Also we started a thing this month called "Random act of Kindness". Where we will challenge our people on their own time, not a structured event at all, to serve their neighbor or community. So this week remember to shovel your neighbors driveway. Watch this weeks service to see the funny video.

I am so excited for what is ahead for Element Church and love being your Worship Pastor. Thank you for worshipping with us.

Set List for Sunday Dec. 2nd:
Gloria - Mercy Me
Here is our King - David Crowder
Everything Glorious - David Crowder
Maker of Heaven - Desperation Band
Silent Night - Relient K version

Worshipping Him,
Adam