• Weekend Rewind instead of Sunday Rewind!
• FUN WEEKEND...POWERFUL SUNDAY!
• The last Block Party of the '08 season was off the chain! BBQ and all the fixin's...lots of NHC'ers and TONS of unchurched friends...water slides, bounce houses and face painting for the kids...live music by Coolius Caeasar (Hugh's band)...and a drive-in movie. Don't let it ever be said that NHC doesn't know how to throw a party!!
• Fun kick-off for Pt. 2 of Amplify. Yvette rocked our face off with Been A Long Time Since I Rock & Rolled. And if you weren't there, yes, we did a Led Zeppelin tune in church! With Yvette singing it, it was like Tina Turner meets Led Zeppelin! And props to our student ministry gang for running around the room throwing out the little guitars!
• If you weren't in your seat 5 minutes early, you probably missed that song! GET HERE EARLY NEXT SUNDAY!!
• Today was one of the hardest messages I've preached for a while. I don't know why, but I just had a hard time with it this week. I guess there are just days like that. I finally just kind of gave up this morning and prayed, "Lord, you've got to show up here because I'm just not getting it." I think he did.
• 6 weeks from today is our first weekend of revamped service times - Saturday at 6:30, Sunday at 9:30 & 11:30. Get ready to invite your 5 friends the first weekend of October!
• Speaking of that, we're working hard behind the scenes to gear up our volunteer teams for kids, students and hosts. Are you INVOLVED? If not, pick up a Strengths Survey at Guest Central, fill it out and return it ASAP. We need everyone to get in the game this fall!
• Jayden's 5th birthday was this weekend. (These kids are growing up way too fast!) Went to Chuck E. Cheese after church and the girls ate pizza and played video games. Susan and I ate from the salad bar. Imagine that - a salad bar at Chuck E. Cheese.
• Next week we wrap up Amplify with Hit Me With Your Best Shot. We're going to zero in next week on how to know God's plan and purpose for your life. Don't miss it!
• School starts tomorrow. Yeah! I'm driving Arianna to school in the mornings this school year and I'm actually looking forward to it. Quality time in the car together.
• Hope you have a great week. I'm out!
Dave, God definitely showed up yesterday! Several of my CG folks were using the spinning plates analogy in describing their prayer requests yesterday.
It occurs to me that if my grandfather had followed the priority order you laid out, my mom would be a happier person. My grandfather was a preacher, and within his small denomination was well known; he traveled all over the country speaking at revivals. Unfortunately, this left several of his children, including my mom, feeling slighted. To this day--and she's in her 70s--when there's a glitch in a relationship her first response is to assume that the other person doesn't like her, doesn't want to spend time with her, etc., even if there's no real evidence of that.
It's sad. My mom's a wonderful woman, but she has these lasting hurts left over from her girlhood. And I'm sure my grandfather is in heaven, but I'll bet when he got there he said, "Well, dag. I got a few things out of order."
Posted by: Loretta | August 25, 2008 at 06:19 AM