• Wyatt is home and perfect.  Maybe even more loveable than before.
• I’m now in Hotlanta – Drive starts tonight!
• Baptized 61 yesterday…that’s 13% of the people attending.  Are you kidding me!
• Love the group I’m with.  This week is going to leave my brain exploding and my side in stitches.
• Brandon and the downtown crew did a bang-up job in worship yesterday.
• I did nothing – NOTHING for yesterdays services.  The team was incredible.  They really came together and made an incredible Sunday happen.
• God is freakn’ blessing our church.  Thank you God!

I’m so excited about the Drive Conference I can’t stand it.  8 days till we leave!

Finally!  Business cards have arrived!  Here is a sample of our generic one.  Mine, of course, has my info and cell….didn’t want to display that to the masses.  The LC side is glossy, and the name side is matte.  Love it.

My person of the week is….Tom Spellman.  Simple because the man loves doing what he does so much, he’s crazy enough to stand out in the rain and park cars.  No wait, let’s back up.  He’s crazy enough to show up at 6:00 AM; crazy enough to put out all the banners and yard signs in a torrential downpour; crazy enough to park cars in a torrential downpour; crazy enough to walk everybody from their car in the torrential downpour with an umbrella; crazy enough to stay till 1:30 every Sunday to help us tear down.  The dude was soaked.  And when I say torrential downpour, it was like Texas rain – all morning long.  Love having people who are crazy for this community, crazy for our church, and crazy for Christ. Thanks Tom!

‘Some things have got to change around here!’

Change is inevitable.  If you aren’t changing, chances are you’re dead.

We’ve made a few shuffles here at Lifepoint to help with the work load and move people into their giftedness.  It first began with this – Pastor Daniel isn’t gifted in administration.  He needs to focus on leading the church, studying, and preaching God’s word – not dealing with the electric bill. 

Me on the other hand, I’m very detail oriented.  Yes I have messy desk.  Yes I’m musical.  But I did well in music theory because it is very mathematical – very pattern oriented.  I like patterns.  I like it that 1+1 always equals 2.  I didn’t like English because the tests were so subjective.  They couldn’t convince me that their answer was right because to me it was debatable.  2×2 isn’t debatable.  It’s 4.  Don’t mess with me.  So I like paying bills, and balancing the check book and things like that.  So I took over the Admin stuff.  Now I’m Admin in addition to the other 10 hats I wear?  Not going to work. 

Josh on the other hand is very creative.  Not musical, but creative.  So he is now our creative director.  And he is amazing at it.  His responsibilities include conceptualizing the series package, crafting the Sunday morning service, and all the design stuff that it includes.  Additionally, he is now the Downtown campus Pastor.

So who took over Kidspoint?  Ben Weiss was a clear choice.  His heart bleeds kids.  He is always thinking into the future and challenging himself to find better ways to connect with kids and impact their lives with the life of Christ.

So for me, I have taken more of a Service Programming Manager position modeled after Northpoint.  I just happen to be the worship leader as well.  So far it is working like a dream.  I can already see how the giftedness of everybody is coming out.  Great stuff!

Better late than never.  Wanted to update you on Easter.

Amazing.

There you go.  End of post.

Just kidding.  Honestly, it was incredible.  We had 674 – blew us away.  First time we ever had 3 services.  Everything went smoothly.  Somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 people accepted Christ!  I can’t believe how much God is blessing our church.  Amazing.  Have I said that already?

Finally.  On April 1st we moved into our office space.  It wasn’t till a week later that we had internet and were able to actually USE the office space, but none-the-less. 

Needless to say, our wives are ecstatic, and yet somewhat saddened by the departure of their hubbies….only because they can’t call us down from our office to take out the trash, open a jar of jelly, or watch the kid while they jump in the shower.

But the difference is amazing.  Such a synergy.  We have office volunteers helping hold down the front desk…keeps wanting to float away.  And Pastor Daniel, Josh, and I are able to hit the cool intercom button and holler at each other anytime we want.  J. Sich and Ben also have their own desks and extensions.  We feel all legitimate and stuff!

Chunks wrote a great post on getting office space where he said,

   
"Most church starts are meeting in portable facilities. This is not a
bad thing but one of my strongest recommendations I can give is to get some    offices ASAP.
Not only does it begin to give a nomad church a sense of stability with
those that you are trying to reach but it will make the church more
effective at reaching them."

And in no uncertain terms, he jumped our tail when he found out we didn’t have an office.  Thank you Chunks!

So here is a rough picture of where I work.  Desk is already messy.

Last year we learned A LOT!  And I think that prepared us for this year.  However, this year we still didn’t expect the crowd we had.  But we need to know what an incredible job Josh did.  Our drop ran like a machine.  Sure there were a few people upset (maybe 2).  But if your one of them and are reading this – get over it!  Read what it could have been like!  You’ll pee your pants!

Read it here. 

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

Next year at egg drop time we need estimate a crowd, then double the number.  Unbelievable!  Go through my blog roll to find out all the estimations on numbers.  I’m not even going to guess. 5K, 7K, 10K, 12K.  They all sound God-sized.  Which they are!  It was a God-day.  Weather was God-made to order.  Volunteers were God-infused.  Eggs were…seemingly falling from God’s hand.  It was a site to behold.  And I got to hunt with Wyatt!  Fun stuff.  Here are some great pics of the day.  Click the 2nd to the last one and you can see the eggs falling.

My first person of the week is….drum roll….wait you already see his picture.  Darn.

The first person of the week is Phil Green.  Why?  I’m so glad you asked!

Phil is a machine.  Phil also bleeds Lifepoint.  He love the church and we love him.  He is always in a good mood and always encouraging.  Let me tell you a little about what he does.

Saturday Phil showed up at the fairgrounds…early.  I think like at least 9.  He donated all the orange construction fencing we had to frame out the hunting zone.  Phil not only donated it, he helped put it out.  Yards and yards of it.  Phil then helped work the event.  Phil then stayed and helped tear down the event – at 3:30.  Phil stayed until everything was done.  Phil then – get this – followed a back hoe filled with dirt, grabbed a hand full every few yards, and hand filled – HAND FILLED – every hole the stakes made from the orange construction fencing.  (Seems there is a dog show and they didn’t want Fido to break his leg).  Took him at least 45 minutes.  Grabbing dirt, bending over, filling the hole, and packing it in.  THEN Phil showed up at 6 AM Easter to help finish setup.  THEN Phil stayed behind after the 11:30 service let out to help with tear-down.  Told you he was a machine.  And he’s not the only one!  We have more just like him!  You’ll get them later.

Phil we are blessed to have you!  Thank you!