Written in Heaven

Another great day at BridgeWay! Here are some thoughts:

• We had another solid crowd today, right at 120 folks. That's about half of Grand Opening's crowd, which is where we'd predicted we'd land.
• After a nasty day yesterday, we had sunshine and beautiful weather.
• Big props to our band today. When we arrived, we realized we had a noon show in the theater we worship in, making it a little bit of a time crunch. We had to cut a song from our worship set, but the band was cool with it and did a great job adapting.
• I loved opening the service with "Solution" and "Our God is Love." Those two songs rock! They'll wake you up for sure!
• We wrapped up our series "No Perfect Peopel" today. It was a great challenge today from Dale to be Jesus to someone this week.
• We don't go to church - we are the church. Boo-yah! Great stuff.
• The only downer from the message was the fact that the pre-movie soundtrack for the noon show started right in the middle of the message! Not cool man, not cool.
• We talked it over with the theater manager and next week we will meet in theater 8 rather than theater 1 to avoid the early show time. (I recognize this means nothing to those who weren't in attendance today, but thanks for bearing with us through this portion of the blog post).
• We also had more new folks, more returning folks, and even some folks sign up to volunteer!
• I'm excited too that LIFEGROUPS kick off tonight! I'm excited to see how God is going to work through those groups over the coming semester.
• Saturday's Leadership Community is going to be excellent. I hope to see all our volunteers there!
• I also announced today to our folks that we are seeking a new meeting place for the Pekin Campus of BridgeWay. Having our folks pray together is going to be a neat experience for our body. Morton folks can feel free to join us in prayer too (along with anyone else who reads this)!
• Don't forget folks - next Sunday we kick off the series "Uncertainty" and it's going to be fantastic. Pray about who God would have you invite this week.
• Thanks again to everyone for another great day!
• Colts 4-0 baby!

See you next week!