1. Our Finances (Giving our Money)
2. Our Salvation (Giving our Testimony)
3. Our Life (Giving a Legacy)

At each campus, we built a large “it.” We have many volunteer opportunities at the church and around the city during this holiday season. When our people sign up to volunteer, they will receive a gift tag that they will keep a portion of and then fill out their name and place it on the “it.”

Here are some pics of the “it”s at each campus.

Lenexa’s “it”

Speedway’s “it”

Overland Parks “it”

We started off talking about humility.

The day overall was quite good. We had a packed house at the 10a. service with overflow maxing out the gallery and falling into the upstairs vestibule.

I tech directed this morning and the irony of today’s message came through as it seemed like we couldn’t get the little things done right. Kept us humble. No one else probably noticed them, but we did.

The band and production team did a great job today. We had the 4th camera roaming the stage getting some great band and crowd shots. We had baptisms and celebrated life change with several people. We introduced a new song that Troy wrote called “What I Need.” We had a great worship service. Today’s set was:

I am Free (Desperation Band)
What I Need (Troy’s new song)
Humble King
Hosanna (Hillsong)
We Shine (Passion/Fee)

Tonight I got to play drums… that was fun as always, but my arms were giving out playing “We Shine” at 155bpm.

Here are a couple of pics from today.

The day started with an early morning rehearsal call at 6:30a. It was one of those mornings like a couple weeks ago where things were going wacko. Sound equip was wacky, pro video was crashing, and musicians weren’t meshing. It seemed like a rough morning was ahead, except for the fact that we have experienced plenty of these days in the ministry and it is during these moments we need to be more focussed on the end goal and less on the circumstances because if we press through we will find out that those mishaps are only barriers to a breakthrough.

That’s what happened today. We didn’t let these crazy things draw our focus away from worshipping God.

We opened up with We Shine (which is still humorous for me to see our 8:30 crowd wake up to this song).

We then did a welcome then the bumper video. Pastor Schaun, our missions pastor, came out then and did a passionate “Thank You Jesus” presentation about the great things that has happened over the year in our missions efforts. He focussed on individual lifechanging stories such was heartbreaking and compelling.

Next, Pastor Dan came out and opened up the new series “when Love Comes to Town.”

Dan led us into communion and out Harvest Offering. During that time we sang the following:
Prepare the Way
Revelation Song
Thank You For Hearing Me

Dan then wrapped up the service and we left singing Troy’s song, “One Life.”

We had a great time of worship and there was a sweet presence during communion.

I roamed around this morning. But I got to play keys and sing backup at the 5pm service. I love playing! In fact, tonights band was tight! Rehearsal went great and the worship set was the best of the day. Now that could have been the feeling cause I was on keys and I think it’s easier for me to worship while behind the ivories.

All in all, one great day. Thank you God for letting me do this!

(I used a lot of exclamation marks in this post!)

It felt crazy around the office in getting ready for today and getting all the elements together for the upcoming series and our new year series.

This weekend was good all around. There was definitely a different vibe with everyone today. Everyone seemed mellow, except for the 5 pm service which were primed and ready to worship.

We started the service with a intro song that Jason wrote. We then went into

Salvation’s Chorus (North Point)
Scripture (Isaiah 55)
Let Me Sing (North Point)
You are My Strength (Hillsong)
Hungry
Rise (Robbie Seay)

I had fun preparing for this weekend. It was the challenge that made it fun. Jason, our music director came down with a stomach thing on thursday so I got to jump in and help direct the Sunday morning band. Thanks for bearing with me team!

I helped with vocals in the morning then played keys and sang during the pm service.

Thanks Troy for letting me lead “You Are My Strength.”

Randy Coleman was in from lifechurch.tv and he did a great job and tore it up. His message was on Extravagant Prayer.

His points were taken from John 17.
- give me your glory that I might glorify you.
- may those closest to me posess the full measure of your joy.
- may all Christ’s followers live in unity.