Buncha Stuff Sunday – Easter Edition!!!

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Let me get these two things out of the way!

• I had the runs (that’s code for diarrhea) all morning before service.
• I made it to the bathroom in time to blow chunks soon after arriving for our Easter service.

Moving on ….. :-)

• I know every pastor says they had an awesome day today, but doggone it, we had an awesome day!
• Easily one of our best services ever in so many different ways.
• Wifey says it was her favorite service we’ve ever had.
• Our volunteers kicked major butt today.
• We had more volunteers than we’ve ever had for a Sunday service and they took care of business.  I love y’all!
• We didn’t do any mass mailers, but did a pretty big push on Facebook for our Easter Service with some city-wide ads that I think really worked for us.
• We were also really blessed to be shown all over the Atlanta news Friday and Saturday and got a good bump because of it.
• We had about 40 very excited first time visitors!
• This was the biggest number since our grand opening
• They added a ton of energy to the room and caused us to run out of seats!
• I love that problem!
• We introduced board games for people to play during our Free Breakfast and they were a hit and really helped get people involved and connected!
• We noticed a ton of little irking problems last Sunday and worked our butts off all week this week to make sure we fixed them!
• Jinean (our Creative Director) works her butt off and does a fantastic job! Praying to be able to bring her on in a real paid capacity soon.  She’s amazing and has brought her whole family on board with the church!
• I always think about how Mark Batterson, Pastor of National Community Church says we shouldn’t invest a bunch of time and money and energy into inviting people to a Sunday service that sucks so bad that people basically become evangelists for why your church sucks.
• Our worship team this morning (DJ Dust, Michael, Marquan, Sophie, Rai, Ashley, Dorothy, Antwon) had what may have been our best Sunday ever.  They are becoming a cohesive team.  You all are the bomb.
• Ashley did a beautiful interpretive dance while my wife and Dorothy sang “His Eye is on the Sparrow” – the song and dance were beautiful.
• I hope we continue to add more creative elements to our service.  It added so much to our gathering.
• I preached about the Resurrection of Jesus and really focused a lot on the impact it had on Peter’s life.
• I read more scripture than I ever have in my life throughout my sermon.  I honestly knew that a lot of people in the room had never heard or read this story and I wanted them to hear it directly from the word.
• 7 people decided to be baptized.
  
• We have about 20 people to baptize and I want to do it very soon.
  
• My brother and I served communion at the end of service and it was a very moving experience for everybody.  I am so glad we did this today.
• I made a very big announcement today and will tell you all more about it soon!
• DJ Dust started filming videos today for our new series next week…more about that soon too :-)
• After we broke down all of our equipment, a good number of people came out to have a very informal picnic @ Centennial Olympic Park.  The sun was shining bright and we had a blast!
• I am so honored that I get to do this for a living!
• Thank all of you for your prayers and well-wishes!  They mean a lot to me!
• So amped for all of you that helped to lead services all across the world today.