Wednesday Review

Last night was an overall good night. We started with a cool animated video. Praise and Worship was good...We did some interactive texting agian this week although we really cut down on it this week. I didn't feel like I spoke really well but overall it was a good night. I feel like we are really gaining some momentum. Good things are happening and it's exciting every week to see what God is going to do...stay tuned 'cause something big's about to happen!!

Here is picture from last night.

Wednesday Review

Last night was AWESOME!! It was our interactive service and here is how it went down...

After the countdown we went into a "text intro" (thanks zach) which was basically a computer driven message on the screens that was communicating to the students like a text message. I was surprised at how much the students were interacting with the video.

We came out of that and into me doing announcements and offering. Then the band did an amazing job with worship. During one of the worship songs we gave students the opportunity to text in what God is to them...I was honestly nervous about this at first, but it was unreal!! Here's a sample of what it looked like

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We also had Derrick painting during worship...which was also incredible! Great job D!



Worship really was unreal this week...Great job band!

Finally we went into an interactive message, which this week was dominated by the poll questions we were asking students about dating. Here is a view of what it looked like...



We had a panel up front of that students could ask questions to, or we just allowed students that wanted to to share their opinion openly...if they wanted to stand up to the mic...



Overall, I was extremely pleased with last nights service!! I am excited because next week we are going to be utilizing the texting again, but I am going to get more time to preach!!

This was definitely a HUGE success for us!!

This Wednesday

So this Wednesday will be our first attempt at a txt interactive service. We are setting up everything tonight to be ready for Wednesday and I'm looking forward to an awesome night. We are talking about dating and guy/girl relationships in general. Last Wednesday I told all the students to bring their phone (like they wouldn't) and be ready so this should be fun.

We purchased a service that allows us to not only have immediate poll updates, but also gives us the opportunity to moderate any comments that come through (we are talking about students you know)...but I don't want to give out too much info to spoil the surprise.

I'll let you know how it turns out!! I'm excited!

Super Bowl Recap

So it has taken me a bit to get back here and recap our superbowl party but it was great!! We had an awesome turn out (around 250) and the place looked great. We of course had great food (wings, pizza etc...), giveaways (we gave a cardinals and steelers super bowl jersey, cheesecake factory gift cards, starbucks etc...), I had some of my students play in between commercials some (which worked out great) and Bobby Humphrey spoke at halftime. It was a great event. A ton of work, but a great event. The pictures definitely don't do it justice but here they are:

Origin Band

So I instead of posting pictures of the new stage design, I thought I would just post some videos from the Origin Band last Wednesday. although this does not do justice to the service itself...also these are only a few of the slow songs...We didn't run camera production, just a wide angle camera (and the fast songs were a little distorted).

Super Bowl Party and Bobby Humphrey

Man I am getting excited about this Sunday. We are having an awesome Super Bowl Party...Big Screens (inHD!), wii's, x-box 360, wings, pizza and the list goes on and on, but to top it all of we have Bobby Humphrey coming in to speak for us at halftime.



If you didn't grow up in Alabama you may not be as familiar with him as those who did. Bobby Humphrey was one of the greatest running backs ever for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He played for them in the late 80's and went on to be a first round draft pick in 1989 by the Denver Broncos. Needless to say, being here in Birmingham, he will be a great draw for all football fans, but especially Alabama fans.

If you are from the Birmingham area, listen to WDJC Friday morning...they are going to be doing an interview with Bobby about what he's doing and also about the Super Bowl party Sunday!!

It's going to be awesome! Don't miss it!!

Wednesday was Crazy Good

Okay so for all of you who did not make it Wednesday to our service with the Origin band...you missed it! And I have to say...I told you so! It was amazing. This band is so tight, anointed and really have a passion to share Jesus Christ through their music! Since I am still waiting on our other stage pictures I wanted to share some pictures from Wednesday.

Kaden had to make sure everything sounded right, so he was handling the sound check


Here is a shot of Eric (lead singer)...He is such a passionate worship leader. He has no clue how crazy good he is!!


Here is a great shot of the students worshiping...It was a great night!