MONDAY (SUNDAY) MIND DUMP

Super huge day at Crossroads.  Totally blown away...yet again.  Here's some quick takes from the weekend:

1. Biggest attendance EVER at Crossroads.  194 people this morning! (195, if you count the guy that came into the lobby, grabbed a couple of donuts and took them back out to his car to eat them).
2. TONS of first-time attenders!
3. MANY people rededicated their lives to Christ this morning, and one asked how experience God's love in their life for the first time.
4. The Band was incredible this morning.  When they started playing "When the Lights Go Down in the City" by Journey, I thought I would wet my pants.
5. Worship was REALLY great.  LOVE the Starfield song.  My favorite new worship tune. Great job Nic, Janna, Jeff, Sam, Chris & Will.
6. Super job by Mike Armstrong receiving the Offering this morning.  GREAT prayer!
7. Many people are marking on their cards that they came to Crossroads because of the billboard advertising, but JUST AS MANY respond to our really cool ticket-like-looking invite cards.  Take 'em and leave 'em wherever you go.  They are working!
8. Unbelievably cool vibe in the lobby.  It's just a place that's really friendly, inviting and welcoming, without being phony and overly "Oh, we're so glad to see you (but I'm just pretending)"-like.  What's happening in the lobby and throughout Crossroads is authentic and genuine - and you can't fake that.  And I absolutely LOVE it!
9. Great crowd to share with today, you guys made bringing the message pure joy.  The connection was there, it was real, and it was good.  Lot's of laughs as we really learned something together we can USE in life!
10. Randy Grimes is so COOL, I think he needs a regular monthly segment!
11. Tough to say good-bye to the Owen family.  Something - as a church dedicated to serving flight-school families - we will do over and over again.  That's a HUGE part of our ministry in this military town.  Let's always make sending them off with prayer (and a plan for their next church home) a top priority at Crossroads.
12. Also tough to send Trask Preston off to Korea.  But we are committed to loving, supporting and caring for his family here at home while he serves overseas.
13. Our crack tech team scores high marks again.  Brian, Natalie, Will, Max.  Cues smooth, sound great, timing of everything done in a first-rate manner.
14. I am really proud of the job EVERYONE in our ministry to children at Crossroads is doing.  Nursery, pre-school and elementary ministry is really connecting with our kids, making Crossroads a place for the WHOLE FAMILY.  Kudos to Billy Donegan for all the great new artwork and sculpted pieces in nursery/preschool.

After people receiving Christ, I was most excited today for our dedicated staff, leaders and VOLUNTEERS to see that the work they are doing is bearing fruit.  The commitment to do church the way we are doing it at Crossroads is beginning to pay off for hundreds of regular attenders. Though we had 194 in the building today, they represent over 300 regular attenders (people who come at least twice a month) whose lives have been impacted by what you are doing.  Keep it up!

Get ready guys, God hasn't even scratched the surface of what He is going to do in Enterprise. Easter Sunday is two weeks away, and with 5000 direct ads to homes in Enterprise, our regular email blasts, your continued rock-solid inviting, we are just beginning to grow.  Stay focused, stay in prayer, stay filled up on His Word, and be confident in the strategy we have adopted for reaching those who are un-churched, over-churched, de-churched, and just plain burned out on church.  Crossroads is a safe place to come and be renewed by the never-ending love and grace of God.  Remember to prayer for Pastor Mike at Christ-Life Church and Pastor Derrick at Highpoint, for their families, for their leaders, and for the work we are all doing side-by-side here in the Enterprise/Ozark Micropolitan!

Much love!  Have a GREAT week!