WEEKEND UPDATE (060610)

Hey guys, another great weekend at Crossroads!  Big, big crowd on Sunday for Part Two of "I LOVE MY CHURCH"!  Here's just a few of the things I noticed on Sunday morning:

• Walked in the lobby door at 8AM to see a BIG team of volunteers getting it done in our Hospitality Ministry!  So exciting to see that 17 new people signed up after last week to get involved in the lobby!  All hands were on deck making light work of the lobby set-up.  Way to go!!!
• LOVED the new "Welcome to Crossroads" video!!
• Blacklight Puppets from Children's Ministry were AWESOME!!!
• BIG thanks to Pastor Matt and Hollie and everyone from our Children's Ministry who made yesterdays service so special!
• First service yesterday was a little herky-jerky with all the different elements we crammed into the service, but the transitions smoothed out for the second service and it totally ROCKED!
• I forgot to put on my microphone until 15 seconds before the first service (adding to the herky-jerkiness).  Oops.
• MANY people took inspiration from yesterdays services and either signed up to serve in children's ministry or "checked that box" on their communication cards!
• Having a three year-old orange monkey up on the stage during the service was funny, interesting and, um...challenging.  W.C. Fields ( of ,"Get away from me kid, you bother me" fame), said, of working with children and animals on stage...to not to.  Personally, I'm in favor of children and animals on stage, and I look forward to the opportunity to work with JoJo the monkey again soon.  Like a couple of years from now.  (kidding)
• One of the highlights of yesterday was hearing the crowd sing "Jesus Loves the Little Children".  That's not something that happens at Crossroads regularly.  But it was AMAZING that so many people knew that song.  How POWERFUL is Jesus influence in our culture?  Undeniably!
• I believe that Crossroads is a GREAT example of a "local church working right"!!
• "Beauty indescribable", is a fitting desciption of God's presence at Crossroads!
• "Power breathtaking", evidenced in the life-change that SO MANY have experienced!
• "Potential unlimited", don't get me started!  In two years as a church we have barely scratched the surface of what God can accomplish IN us and THROUGH us.  There is SO MUCH upside at Crossroads it is STUNNING!   
• I LOVE inviting people to church! 

Guys, have a FANTASTIC week!  The signup rosters for Lobby and Children's Ministry will be at the Information Table in the lobby each week.  It's so easy.  All you have to do is SIGN up and SHOW up! Remember, next week we're talking about something very near and dear to me and so important for all of us: MUSIC MINISTRY and what praise and worship is all about.  Then it's off to Johnny Henderson Family Partk, from 6 to 8PM for HOT BLUES AND BBQ!  Bring enough for you and several others, pay the five bucks (it's a fundraiser for the music department), and settle in for an evening of AWESOME, rockin' blues music from Kim Klaudt and the Roadie Blues Band!!  I can't wait!!!