Holy Moly! What a crazy weekend! We had to travel to Olean for my graduation, and we had company for the weekend!
We didn’t come to the Saturday night service because I was GRADUATING!!! And we didn’t come to the 9:30 service (because we were TIRED), but we did come to the 11:00 service!
Here’s some thoughts about what I observed…
1) Pastor Vern talked about Joy. Some of you may not know this, but he talked about joy
while he was walking through the valley of the shadow of death! All week long he lived
with the reality that his father might not live. We were constantly communicating
about whether or not he was going to preach! Praise God, his dad is doing better now,
but while Vern was preparing to talk about joy he was doing it in “the dark.” It’s
crazy how God prepares us to talk for him!
2) Our children’s ministry (Kids JAM) had a huge party this weekend! I want to give a
HUGE “SHOUT OUT” to everyone who worked like crazy to make it happen! When I
left the church (@ almost 2 p.m.) Denise Adamski, Kathy Saile, and Jess Saile were still
there working (and they didn’t leave until after the party!). It’s really cool to serve
Jesus with such awesome people! I love you Kids JAM crew!
3) We had 767 in attendance this weekend… last year on this weekend we had 690!
4) We’ll be wrapping up this series this coming weekend when we talk about the gift of
love that Jesus has for us! I can’t wait to preach!
Tomorrow I’m going to interview Anthony Hoisington (our Thursday’s Worship Leader) for the blog.
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It was a total blessing to see the sanctuary packed on Sunday morning. My girlfriend and I were at the 9:30 service and there couldn’t have been more than 30-40 open seats.