- Meeting in the Pekin Theater is really nice. The staff is extremely friendly and accomodating and the venue is excellent. I think we'll pack it out for Grand Opening.
- This week we unveiled the new signage for the campus. It looks great! Lovin the new look.
- Set up went extremely smooth this week. We had a certain campus pastor (i.e. me) forget a couple things at the Ministry Center, but luckily I get the privilege of working with a very gracious group of folks. Thanks to Nate for bailing me out and picking up some much needed equipment!
- During our service runthrough today, I realized that the band was going to be out of this world today. And they certainly were!
- The band really took it to another level today. You can tell that they have started to gel and get a lot more comfortable together. If they do what they did today at Grand Opening, I'll be thrilled!
- Our service went really smoothly as well.
- We were able to iron out some of the issues with the video this week.
- Last week we had 4 little glitches to the video of Dale, but this week we had none. It was MUCH smoother (Praise the Lord)!
- We are still tweeking the audio on Dale's message, but I'm confident that we'll get that within a couple weeks no problem.
- I want to say thanks to our Launch Team for really bustin it out every week! More than that, we know that making a transition from a live speaker to a video can be difficult, but we really appreciate your willingness to hang in there while we get better at this whole deal.
- Thanks to Daylene Morgan and our children's department workers as well. They are making the biggest sacrifice in this whole deal because the weeks they work in the children's area they are unable to attend service. This is a HUGE sacrifice and God will bless you for it.
- Don't forget that next week we will NOT be meeting in either movie theater (Morton or Pekin) because we'll be at Idlewood Park in Morton for BBQ and Baptisms @ 11:00.
- If you're volunteering for that event, we are having a training/info meeting Saturday morning at 9:00 at the BridgeWay Ministry Center in the Field Shopping Center in Morton.
Thanks again to everyone for your prayers and support! Next Pekin Campus Service is September 13 a.k.a. GRAND OPENING! Invite everyone you know!
Matt said "We had a certain campus pastor (i.e. me) forget a couple things at the Ministry Center"
Don't worry brother you have done an awesome job, I am confident enough to speak for everyone and say we all love working with you. Keep up the hard work i am excited to see what God is going to do in Pekin. (Even if it means getting up at 5 every morning and driving to Morton to get the trailer.
That 5:00 am wake up call is rough, but I have to say working with you guys is a highlight of my week. I never thought I'd have that much fun at 6:30 am!
It never actually seems that early. It is one of the highlights of my week.