No bunnies were injured during this video

I know what you are thinking...how could you laugh at someone else's pain...but it is funny. And Scarlet bunny (the girl that fell) posted this herself...And by the way...she was okay.

Mentone

Well, I know it's been a while, but it's been crazy around here. Last night we got back from the annual Middle School Retreat in Mentone, AL. It was a great trip! It was also a very cold trip!! We took approximately 64 students and workers and I believe everyone had a great time! We had 10 High School students go and mentor/work on the retreat and they really helped build some bonds between the middle and high school group. Saturday night service was awesome! Drew, Eleanor and Jacob did a great job leading worship.

During worship students just began to pray with each other and for one another. It was really great to see this happening with Middle School Students. I'll try to post some pictures as soon as I get them.

Student Ministry

Last Night we had another good service. We flipped the order last night to change things up. After the countdown hit zero, the media team went straight into my sermon intro video. From there I came out and started my sermon. You could tell it took a few minutes for students to realize I was preaching my sermon and not leading into praise and worship. One side note, when we do this, I think it is better to just come out and start preaching like you normally would. Don't come out and say, tonight is going to be different, we are going to be doing different things...well duh, they know that. Anyway...soapbox...

At the end of my sermon (about turning our fear to faith) I gave the students a challenge, prayed and CJ came behind me with Worship...He, of course, did a great job and we had a great worship experience. We closed with announcements. Tyler from The Basement was there and came up and gave an announcement about their big Halloween service coming on the 28th. Then we closed by praying for one of our students (Nick) in the hospital. Overall it was a great night and I thought the change was good (it was needed).

Wednesday

We had another great Wednesday night this week. We showed the Horn's Creek Video (which I will try to post later) that David did a great job putting together. Praise and Worship was phenomenal again!! CJ is doing an awesome job integrating new students in and teaching them to lead! We had a drama in the message which went perfectly with our topic.

One interesting thing that happened is when I got back up after the drama to preach, one of the dimmer packs started to smoke, lights flickered off and we had to turn the house lights on. I never turned around, I figured if it was bad enough they would stop me :)...anyway the sermon went well and God spoke to many lives. We again had a great time of prayer and I thought the service as a whole went really good.

I'm really excited about what God is doing here. He is slowly bringing things together. God is going to do AMAZING things here...I can't wait to see all He is going to do!

Safety First!

This is awesome...especially how the guys continues to sell the product...

Horn's Creek

This weekend 29 of our High Schoolers and leaders went to Horns Creek in Tennessee for Fall Retreat. Needless to say it was a great weekend! Being farely new still it was great for me and Holly to get to know the High School students on a more personal level. We had some great service time, fun hanging out and of course paintball was a blast.
The only tough part of the weekend was having to leave at 4:45 this morning and head right back to Tennessee for class today. If I wasn't tired enough from this weekend, driving 3 hours to class this morning, sitting in class and driving 3 hours back late this afternoon has done me in. I will try and post some pics soon! For now...I'm going to finish some work, play with Kaden a bit and go to bed!!

God is Amazing!!

Have you ever had to give a talk, preach a sermon etc...and it's just not coming together? That was me this week. Last week I thought was great...had it together, was prepared etc...This week was a different story.

On Monday of this week, through all the busyness, God spoke to me and changed my sermon. I had the other pretty much done, which is a great feeling, because there is a ton to do, but God wouldn't let me let go of the word he was giving me. Complacency...that was what God wanted me to speak on which was great, but I was on short time...Monday I didn't get a lot of time to work on it. Tuesday came and we had staff and ministry at Turning Point, which was great by the way, but still no work on the sermon. We had a meeting with some of our youth workers Tuesday Night so I was going home to do it then...Long story short Kaden had been running temp all day, we end up taking him to the after hour clinic and get him checked out...by the time we had the prescription filled at the pharmacy we got home at midnight!!
I grabbed an ice cream and Dr Pepper from a gas station and was determined to work on this sermon, which I did but ended up going to bed not really far into it.

Wednesday got here and I work all day on my sermon, it's not coming together...then it is...etc...Finally I feel like I have it.

I come downstairs and Bo is got the place set up looking awesome, CJ has the band kicking and I'm getting excited.

So, service starts with a crowd breaker, announcements...then it's time for worship...and man did CJ and the band ever tear it up!! They did awesome. Intro Video and then it's time to speak. Complacency, it's what God wanted me to share, so I'm going through my sermon and it's just not hittin home (with me or the students!) If you ever speak you understand these moments come...But as it goes on the Holy Spirit begins to speak through me in amazing ways and I see God start to speak to students.
Anyway not to drag it out but we had a great altar service and we had students give their heart to Christ. It was truly a God night and He is so Amazing to let me be apart of what He is doing here at Metro...Amazing things are coming!!!

Busy...

So it's been a while since I have posted but man have I been busy. Here's a quick recap...Mission's Conference, school, fireproof movie(we rented out the Rave!), I took Pastor Mark, Allan (worship pastor) and Josiah (Pastor's son) to the Auburn/TN game. It was great! Here's me and Josiah at Cheeburger Cheeburger...
Then Sunday we had Doug Small in the morning, parent meeting in the afternoon, Doug Small that night, fundraiser dinner after that...visited turning point on tuesday, mix in staff meeting, worker meetings, etc....the list goes on and on. But it's been great. Sorry for those who come check and have seen nothing that last little bit...I'm getting better!