WEEKEND UPDATE (050210)

What a fantastic day at Crossroads as we closed out our original series OZ!  A great crowd for both services and a great response from everyone as we opened the month of May.  Here's just a few of the things I noticed:

• TONS (yes, tons) of First Time Attenders!
• MANY (yes, many) people made DECISIONS!  Some to trust Christ for the first time, some to renew their commitment to Christ, and some to go public with their faith through Baptism!  What a GREAT day!
• Huge Crossroads kudos to the Lobby Team.  Shorthanded, everyone dug in and really made it happen!  You guys are AWESOME!
• Special thanks to Rachel for handling the, um..."dirty work"!   
• Worship sounded GREAT!
• I missed the black-light puppets in the Filling Station both times they did it.  :(  We have the best black-light puppet people anywhere...as far as I know...having missed, yet again, the opportunity to see them.  But I can tell you your kids LOVED it!
• Thank you to those folks who "took care of the dog" this week while they were out of town.  It makes a HUGE difference!  (You have to listen to last weeks message to get the dog joke. LOL)
• LOVE how generous people at Crossroads are, and how everyone responded to the message of how to love God with all your heart!
• More positive feedback about LIFE CHANGE from this series than any other we've done.  More first-time decisions, more renewed relationships, more results from the pure Gospel message about loving God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind; and loving your neighbor as yourself!
• Quotable quote:  JESUS:  "If I only had...YOU!"

Absolutely loved doing this series.  Could have easily run for six weeks instead of three.  But I'm really looking forward to the next three weeks.  This Sunday is MOTHER'S DAY, and I'll be picking up my mom in Cocoa, Florida and bringing her back for the weekend! Next week on May 16th, in what is for me the single most exciting thing we do at Crossroads, we'll be sharing about Baptism in our special Sunday service called REVEAL, and then we'll head out to the East Beach of Lake Tholocco for a Crossroads tradition, BEACH BBQ & BAPTISM!  65 people have gone public with their faith through Baptism since we started doing this.  And two dozen more are already signed up for the 16th!  I can't wait!!  And if that were not enough excitement, Sunday May 23rd is YOUTH SUNDAY.  Youth Pastor Chris Brooks will be sharing about what happens every week at Crossroads that many of you never get to see.  Each Wednesday night, He and a faithful team of volunteers work hard training up the NEXT GENERATION of followers of Jesus Christ.  What they are doing is SO important, we are dedicating and entire weekend service to share about it!  The Underground Band will lead worship, we'll show video of some of the great stuff that happens on Wednesday's at the Annex, and Pastor Chris will bring the message at both services!  Don't miss Mothers Day, Reveal, Beach BBQ & Baptism, and Youth Sunday.  What a GREAT way to invest your Sunday's in May!! Have a GREAT week!