mid - week catch up

friends,
the staff of element and wives were able to go up to Estes Park Sunday thru Tues for a Staff Advance. Our staff advance is where we dream up our year for element church, we seek God thru worship and prayer, we plan sermon series, solutions for different areas in our church, and outreach events, and "What's Next" steps for us. It was a great time. Very intense at times and yet so refreshing. I love this team I get to surround myself with. I am so challenged when I am around them.

Looking very forward to what's next for us after this time together. ELEMENT CHURCH, GET READY, CAUSE HERE WE GO.

Our new facility stuff is coming along. Look to Jeff's Blog for more on that.

We had a great worship time sunday. About 2 weeks ago Jeff asked if I knew of any songs with the Lord's Prayer, my response "NO BUT I'LL WRITE ONE". So thats what we did. We read the Lord's Prayer as a church all together and then sang the new song. I really sensed God moving on sunday. I love worshipping thru music with you all here at Element.

Our RockBand series is going very well. 5 people committed their lives to Christ sunday, and that my friends is what its all about. We opened with "LIVIN ON A PRAYER by Bon Jovi", Good Times. This week's opening song is a tough one, but I have faith in the band. We're going to have some fun.

Back to work,
Adam

Sunday Set List,
Livin on a prayer - Bon Jovi
Spring of Life - Kristian Stanfill
Let your Kingdom Come - Adam Cruz
Center - Charlie Hall
Turn Your Eyes - NewSpring Church

sunday afterthoughts

Its good to be back. I miss when I don't get to worship with you guys. Amber and I had a blast on our vacation last week and resolved that we never want to live in NYC. WOW there is a lot of people. I know you find you nitch everywhere you are and your circle of friends, still its cauos there.

We have finally got a system down for our new theater that we are in and have finally gotten so great volunteers in place. We now have an awesome Road Crew manager who runs all the set up on sunday morning. We also have a guy picking up trailer and loading it so that Jeff doesn't have to be a part of that anymore. Great job road crew. you were on yesturday.

We launched our new series entitled Rock Band. In creative team we decided we wanted to build 2 8ft tall Les Pauls for the set design. So I contacted Mike Greenley to build them and Steve Doolin to paint them and they did an incredible job. Ill post some pictures below.

We opened the service with a group of guys that played ROCK BAND live thru our projector and sound system. They did "wanted dead or alive". It was incredible. They had a ton of fun and it looked like you all enjoyed it too. 1st service the guitar player actually landed a guitar throw over his sholder. 2nd service, well, we'll just leave it at that. HA.

The band really did a fantastic job today. I love watching people do what they do best. They seriously take the songs I bring in and make them what I want. Let it burn is a song I wrote several years ago and was an ok song for me at that time, the band is helping make it quickly one of my favorites.

alright thats it,
peace out, (yeah i just said it)

Adam


set list,
wanted dead or alive - live on rock band
happy day - tim hughes
spring of life - kristian stanfill
faithful - steve fee
let it burn - adam cruz

new york update

wow,
--- got to see some crazy cool things in new york city this weekend. It blows me away to stand in so many spots that I have seen filmed in the movies. Walking thru central park was very beautiful. The bridges are breath taking. Time square is about as insane as I can handle. Its so hot in the midst of a million people surrounding you. The building are so tall, not sure you knew that or not, but DANG. Ill throw some pics in slide show later.

--- Definently missed being with everyone at element this week. Thank Jesus for a guy like Nathan that can run the show and do a fantastic job. I hope I have a job when I get back. HA. I love what I do and never am glad to be away, its a nice breath'r here and there but I hate being gone.

--- Got a few more spots we are going to hit up tonight and then catching a 6:30am flight out tommorow morning. And jumping into the swing of things for our new series "ROCK BAND". We have a sweet set design coming your way.

--- By the way speaking of set designs we had a cool idea gone bad. We had created words out of PVC pipe that were the "MAIN" idea for each week. Opening week was "DANGEROUS". PVC was painted silver and stretched 28ft. Drilled holes in the back of each letter and then shoved rope light inside to give a glow off of the pipe and drape. It was a cool idea, next time we just have to have more thoughts in for the engineering. It had trouble standing and took a while to put together. So if you were wondering why you didn't see anything new, thats why.


Saying goodbye to the east coast. Until next time.
Adam

vacation cont.

Yesturday we found a couple of really cool spots. We went to an restaurant on the beach and then to Mystic Seaport. Pics below.

Ok so I know everyone says this, so in my little pizza world, it doesn't get better than this. This pizza was incredible.


Adam and Amber at Mystic Seaport


The train we are taking to newyork


View from lunch


View from lunch 2


Mystic Seaport


Mystic Seaport

Car restoration shop

Yesturday Amber and I got to go to her Aunt's car restoration shop, where some car have $100,000.00 invested into them. Take a look at all the pics. There are a lot so I think you can just click on the pic and see them all so you don't have to wait for the slide show. Pretty amazing.



Got a sweet jacket I have been looking for a long time.

--- New York City is this weekend, cannot wait, staying two nights, going to try and see all I can.

Relaxed,
Adam