Thursday, November 20, 2008

Wednesday...

So last night we had another good service. Our theme was about being thankful (of course it's Thanksgiving)...When students walked into the sanctuary everything was a mess...chairs overturned etc...Once everyone was seated I came out a gave a brief introduction which lead into a drama (Forgive Me by Group 1 Crew). I came back and talked about being thankful using the passage in Luke 17 about the 10 Lepers.

Overall I thought the message went good, at the end I challenged the students to try for the next week to find at least one person a day and thank them. I brought all the leaders to the front to thank them and then as the band prepared I told all the students to find at least 1 leader and thank them. It was awesome. The band then kicked off praise and worship and did a great job!

Overall...great night...I'm excited about what God is doing and going to continue to do here at Metro!

Thursday, November 13, 2008

God Moment

Last night in our service we had what I would call a "God Moment"...worship was finishing the last song and I really felt like everyone needed to push further into worship...it was a great set and awesome worship but it was one of the nights where everyone seemed to come in weighted down and not really able to worship because of what they had going on.

I came up at the last song and just challenged students to do that very thing...focus on God for a moment and set aside all the "junk" they may have been facing...Then it was like God just began to take over completely. It was a big emotional push...as a matter of fact I came back up and asked the band to all leave stage and join the rest of their peers and only CJ (worship leader) up there with his acoustic.

Needless to say, God really changed lives last night...students began to ask if they could share from stage, students were praying for students. It was a really great night...Spontaneous...definitely a God Moment!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Mentone Pictures





So here are just a few pictures from the Middle School retreat in Mentone. The theme was Kairos When time and destiny collide. Hope you enjoy the pics