Matt’s Happenings
July 21, 2008Dear Blogosphere:
It has been a really long time since I posted anything—I have been overly busy.
We just finished Vacation Bible School at Crossroads and we had 140+ kids attending. It was the best VBS program I’ve ever been part of—not the biggest, not the flashiest, not the most dramatic, but it was qualitatively the best. Kudos to our Church Volunteers and Staff for doing such a great job.
This past week we held a vision-casting session at Crossroads—during the Sunday AM worship service. We talked about the coming transitions from one worship service to multiple worship services; including adding a “Church for Teens” on Sunday Nights. We’re presently developing our media campaign that will announce the transition to the community. In the meantime we can only hope the launch of multiple services will be met with as much success as the launch of our church last Fall.
It’s very cool watching people get excited about Crossroads. One aspect is that people begin to develop their own visions and agendas for the Church. Therefore it has been necessary to spend some time getting our new congregation refreshed on the actual vision and agenda of our church. We’ve had a lot of people offering a lot of good ideas. But we’re not going to be doing any of them because at this point they would take away from the most important things we’re trying to accomplish.
Toward the end of this week I’m going to be taking a few days of vacation—however I will still be preaching at Crossroads. But we have some good friends visiting from out of town and we want to invest all of our energy in them while they are here. So I’m rushing through yet another week—trying to accomplish the necessary things in the next day or two, so that I can relax and enjoy the rest of the week.
Anyway, it has been so long since I have blogged I thought it was time for an update. Nothing profound, just an update on the happenings in my life and at Crossroads. Hope to see ya Sunday!
I am so glad to hear about the success of your VBS! I am excited! Did you get my voicenote over e-mail a few days ago?
See you this weekend…
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