What Christians call gay's

Wow, I was sent this link via one of my friend who is yes, gay. He told me this made him mad, furious, and totally hateful against God, and Christians. When I read that I had to check it out. After I read it I came to this conclusion. This church is NUTS! It also made me love our church more. I don't want to get to far into this, because I don't believe Gay's should be denied to learn about God. So I will probably ramble if I get into this. I am just gonna give you the link, and you tell me what you think.

What a Sunday

Ok, so it was quite the interesting Sunday. Lets see if I can get the justs of it.

1. Bryan was sick, so he left early. I am personally happy of that because I didn't want to get sick as well.

2. A lot of our small group leaders where not there this Sunday, so we had to find people to fill in.

3. We where severely under staffed both services.

4. Our 10:30 service saw probably the most kids it has seen so far. We hit around 20 kids.

5. We had our trailer loaded 10 minutes faster then our record time. So we broke our record (keep in mind we didn't have a 2nd service for the kids).

I think I would have to say that the Ckids madras team did a bang up job this week. We all had to do things we didn't usually have to do. I am not use to unloading the trailer and loading it as much as I did. Frank isn't use to leading the whole area, and so much more. I think it is awesome how many people had the "I will do anything you need me to do" spirit. That is what got us through the day. Great job everyone.

thoughts for the week

Well, its over all been a good week. Frontline was awesome as usual. I learned a lot about being a better leader, what a leader is suppose to do and be, and what the church's vision is in better depth. Anyways, here is a few notes.

1. Great service this week, Ed did a great job with the message.

2. It was awesome seeing another baptism at Madras. I love how so many people are getting connected to God thanks to our new campus.

3. Well, Childrens ministry set another record during tear down. Not only was large group torn down, but nursery and elementary was down and ready to go. It was awesome.

4. INVITES! We need them, you can do them. We all need to start working on inviting someone to church. The noon service at Madras is low in people. I don't know what it looks like at Sharpsburg, but there is still 60,000 out there, and we need to do something about it.

5. I found this quote, and thought it was pretty interesting. Check it out and let me know what you think.

"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
- G. K. Chesterton

Ed put me to bed

LOL, couldn't resist the title. I was trying to think what I would name it, and that came to mind. Let me put a little explanation into it. So yesterday (Sunday) was a tough day in Childrens Ministry at madras, because we started the band back up. Now I was prepared for this, and I had it set up for one person to run, but unfortunately some things changed and we needed two people per service. Anyways, I was looking forward to the service, but so much for that. So when I got home, I checked online to see if the message had been posted yet, nope. Checked again 2 hours later, nope. An hour later, nope. After Jason posted his blog, nope. So I stopped checking. 11:30 came along, and I was ready for bed. I decided for some reason to check one last time, and sure enough it was posted finally. I downloaded it onto my phone, put my headphones for my phone on, and laid down on my bed, and began listening to the message. Man, you have no idea how great of a way that was for me to end my day, was listening to some passionate guy tell his goal for the church that I go to. I love listening to Ed's messages, especially on Vision Sunday. You can just hear the passion (and spit, oh the spit!) coming from his voice. I love the future and goal of our church, I love listening to Ed talk about it, and I love being able to be a part of it. I was in 2nd grade when I started coming to CCC, which means I think I was 6...not sure, maybe 7. Anyways, I had no idea who god was, or what church was really about. All I knew is my mom wanted to go. So I did to. I started going during the churches last few meetings at the school. When I moved to the sharpsburg campus and met Jeff, I started learning a bit more. Jeff was a sub at my school, so I saw him often. He would have lunch with me and my friend often, and sometimes visit me at my house. I started getting connected to God, learning what his plans where for me, and what I could do to help others grow to full devotion. Our church most certainly has been doing its mission for YEARS! I look forward to the future of our church. Thanks for putting me to bed on a good note last night Ed....gosh I love that title so much!

First and hopefully only politic post

Ok, i decided to move this post to my personal blog because it had nothing to do with church. So, you can go here to read it.