First Sunday
Confession: I felt like we just birthed another church. By the way, planting a church is not an accurate term for it. Birthing is a more appropriate description. Planting, I could do by myself. Birthing requires the help of a whole lot of people. Well, that’s what happened the first-go-round and that’s what happened on Sunday. If you haven’t heard, The Vine opened a new, 10000 sqft facility. Our launch team was about 3 times the size of our original launch team, and we were better equipped for it. My wife, who also doubles as Kidzu Director, had an amazing team of folks working almost non-stop for 2 weeks to pull-off an amazing kid’s experience. In fact, here’s a picture of the worship taking place there on Sunday:
First day of Kidzu in the new facility!
The crazy thing about Kidzu is that we double the amount of kids in one week! All I know is that my kids loved it. One woman who filled-out a first-time guest survey said that her best impression was that her 7-year-old wanted to return! That’s awesome.
We actually double the amount of adults worshipping with us as well. We had a ton of first-time guests worshipping with us. Their overwhelming first impression was the amount of greeters and the quality of being greeted! That’s what I love to hear. One of the things that I harped on before we launched was the theme of hospitality to the foreigner that is prevalent throughout Scripture. Well, looks like we had that in place on Sunday. Thanks to all who served in Guest Services. One lady responded on the survey by saying that she was blown away by both the hospitality and the awesome coffee. Put those two things together and you’ve got a winning combination. The actual worship experience was great too! The amazing thing is that the “best is yet to come.”
That night, the new facility was crawling with teenagers! They got to enjoy the new blu-ray lounge. I wish I had a picture to show you b/c it was legit. Tucker preached a funeral for “Mr. Clique.” He was hilarious and it drove home Gus’ point that cliques aren’t acceptable in Christ. I’ll add to Gus’ message and spin Colossians 3:11 by saying, “Here there is no {clique}, but Christ is all and in all.”
Oh yeh, the best thing that took place on Sunday was that a young woman gave her life to Christ! That’s what this is all about.
