Sailors, Saints, & Sinners

Weekly Rundown (12.13.09)

• Preaching about the Cross can never get old because understanding & applying the Cross is as essential as breathing!!
• Great to celebrate baptism today.
• Spent some time planning our missions giving for 2010.  I am pumped about all the ways we as a church will be able to support God’s causes –
  • Lots of various efforts in NW Georgia:
    • Crisis pregnancy; food & clothing assistance; benevolences; homelessness
  • A medical missionary to Kenya.
  • Missionary in the Middle East.
  • Efforts to relieve world hunger.
  • Church plants in 3 different states (Georgia, Tennesse, and Florida).
• God blew me away on Friday with an amazing conversation about His radical, unfailing love and then a big, breakthrough about getting our 3rd site up and rolling in Chatsworth … stuff I’ve been praying over for months, starting to materialize as God’s faithfulness and perfect timing bears fruit for His glory!!
• Great meeting with new Calhoun Elders … great to be able to expand the local leadership efforts at that Campus.
• Beginning some cool discussions about how to better mobilize our church to serve.
• Prayer requests:
  • Direction and guidance about foreign missions.  The opportunities are endless and all very good … seeking THE opportunity God prepared long ago for us to walk in — Ephesians 2:10.
  • 2010 opportunities in NW Georgia: 3rd site in Chatsworth, 3rd service (Thursday night), and “building favor” in Calhoun.
  • Sermon and worship planning for 2010.
• HAVE A GREAT WEEK