Monday Musings

Reflecting on our Easter weekend at Granger. Some random thoughts:

• GCC celebrated Easter at two campuses for the first time ever. 8 services. 620 attended at Elkhart, over 11,000 total at both campuses. Big impact in many lives.
• Wonder how many campuses we'll have at Easter '10. Wonder where they'll be.
  
• I connected with numerous families coming out for the first time ever. Many came because of postcards from our mail out and blitz. Many said they'd be back. Way to go teams.
• Justin Moyer looks good in a tie. The purple shirt was a bit much though. He looked like a marshmallow Peep. I wanted to gnaw on his arm.
  
• I'm so glad my family is part of this church. I don't just lead here. I GO here. This is my church. These are my friends. This is my mission.
  
• We have an amazing senior pastor. Mark Beeson did a great job all weekend, speaking six times, with energy. I have a sense that he has so much passion for this that he could have gone another six.
• We have amazing artists at GCC. The live band at Elkhart was awesome.
• We have amazing dancers at GCC. I'm not one of them.
• Seth Bible has way too much talent for one person. It's not fair.
• Kristin Baker has way too much talent for one person. It's not fair.
  
• We have some of the most amazing volunteers on the planet in Elkhart. I love our volunteer teams - the way they serve is impacting, and the joy they serve with is contagious. Nothing happens without them.
  
• I caught myself a dozen times on Sunday just watching people. Watching them clean, pray, drop their kids off, drive a golf cart, slide a lever on a sound board, welcome people they've never met. All for Jesus. All because Easter is real. We know it. We want others to know it.
  
• Church isn't just what happens for 75 minutes in a service. It's what happens before and after the service, and all week long. Church is Jesus Followers who live and breathe His mission intentionality.
  
• I'm a goof ball for forgetting to announce our new service time at the end of the first service (it's 10:30am - and it starts this Sunday. doh)
• I love what I get to do.
• I love who I get to do this with.
• I love Who we do this for.
  
• I'm excited that we get to do this again on Sunday.