best three minutes of your day

i'm serious.
watch the whole thing.

It came, it went, let's do it again!

So our first service came last night. We had our largest attendance ever for a non-event ReMix...and it was on a Friday night! God is so good!

We dismissed at the normal time only to find that the adult service was not done and we were very very loud. Like a heard of wild horses running through a canyon. We got them all back inside, with minimal difficulty!!!

Last night I felt like I was going to die. I need more than 3 hours sleep per night apparently.

Tomorrow morning we do our first small group meeting and the only question is whether or not we will have too little space, or way too little space.

More updates to come tomorrow.

my first gig

this is what i responded to and now get to take part in....yeah boy.

We need your help!

We’re creating a brand-new junior high newsletter, and we’d love to add your great ideas. We’re looking for games, discussion starters, Bible studies, retreat ideas, service ideas, outreach ideas, small group ideas—whatever has worked for you in your ministry to junior highers. We only want ideas that are specific to the junior high age group.

We’re also looking for longer pieces that deal with building your volunteer team and partnering with parents—these can be as long as 400 words.

So send your ideas to sfirestone@group.com, put “Junior High Newsletter” in the subject line, and if we use it we’ll pay you $50 for the short ideas and $150 for the longer pieces.

if you are interested in helping too...please let me know and i'll pass the info along to GROUP.

peace.

B.

tonight tonight

here are some pics from us running around and getting tonight set up.

peace out fo real dawg.

today is the day

i'm pretty excited because we open our first service in the new building tonight!!! IT also marks the one year anniversary of my first visit to 12Stone and I can't believe what has happened in just one year. THanks for praying and thinking about us tonight at 7:00 p.m.

pray for B.

this is me...i've been working. and i'm really tired.

i have to work really late tonight and i'm already really tired.

pray for B.

Communicado

last night was the third week we have not had a wed. night program...what a relief from previous times in other jobs!!!! but i am still running into interesting problems. people just don't read. i think people want to hear what is going on and not have to put any effort into it at all. below you will find the amount of communication we did for the holiday/grand opening schedule.

e-mails: 11
postcards: 2
newsletter: 1
phone calls: 0
announcements: 1,000,000(not really but it felt like it)
text messages: 0
facebook / myspace: created groups, events, and sent mass messages

so i don't really get it. how can you effectively communicate to everyone?