Buncha Stuff Sunday

Some of our BIG NEWS…My blogging buddy and church planting comrade, Gary Lamb, called me to let me know that God really placed on his heart to give our church a big ‘ol Dually truck to tow our portable church trailer later this year.
This was 1 of 3 items on our ridiculous wish list and is a major encouragement to us. We’ll now use ALL of the funds that we would have used to purchase this truck to go toward the development of Courageous Kids – our Sunday morning children’s ministry.
He said the truck is beat up, but will last forever and is strong enough to tow a house. That floats my boat!
More BIG NEWS…I think we have chosen our Sunday morning service location. We’ll be working on the contract this week and I’ll keep you posted. I am so doggone amped!
Even More BIG NEWS…we are going to do what we call a "Soft Launch" of our church in early October. More on that in the days ahead.
We REALLY need you to give and pray to our $20 and a Prayer campaign NOW more than ever!
I am so thankful to the crew that we had come out to paint our offices yesterday! We got a lot of work done in a short period of time. Check out our pictures here.
If you wanna reach and connect with the unchurched or unsaved, it’s great to get them to come to a church service, but many people would be much more willing to come to a service project like we had yesterday. Try it!
We didn’t make it to the National Black Arts Festival yesterday because of rain. The fam ended up picking up lunch @ Little Azio’s and went to go see Wall-E.
I enjoyed what I saw of Wall-E, but my knucklehead 22 month old son would not chill out no matter what we bribed him with. We won’t be taking him back to the movies for a very long time!
Almost as soon as we got back from the theater my pregnant wife became outrageously sick. Please pray specifically for her. I’m OK, but she has been EXTREMELY sick for over a month – every day all day – and has gotten pretty doggone discouraged.
I am seeing a Urologist for a "V" later this year so that we won’t have any more kids (unless we adopt). Sorry if that is TMI!
I watched Elite XC (a mixed martial arts promotion on CBS) last night. Some really good, really exciting fights. I am a UFC fan, but last night was very entertaining from start to finish.
I was absolutely amazed at how much was done in about an hour in the 11am service @ Buckhead Church this morning. Here is what we had…
Opening announcements by Billy Phenix, two great songs by Los & Crew (he blogged about his surprise in what was done in such a short time here), prayer by Los, offering, two baptism testimonial videos, two separate live baptisms, and a great, meaty message by Andy Stanley, and a reading of his final letter to our next president in about 60 minutes! AMAZING!
The service never felt rushed and actually felt like it was much longer than an hour.
One challenge is that Buckhead Church makes this look so easy that most attendees may actually believe the illusion of ease. It obviously isn’t easy to pull off a service there and the level of planning that must be taking place blows my mind.
I stopped counting volunteers this morning at Buckhead Church at 49,325 and it seemed like the church could use some more.
Later this week I am going to begin sharing some key lessons I am learning from my time there.

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1 Cyndi July 27, 2008 at 10:01 pm: Shaun that is awesome about the truck, ask and you shall recieve. Cool!
2 Shaun King July 28, 2008 at 12:32 am: Thanks Cyndi!
We are very amped! Please join your faith with mine for the other things on our wish list. We are going to really need some minor miracles to pull off some of our biggest plans and dreams!
-Shaun & Crew