This week I have experienced some of life’s highs and one of life’s lowest low’s.
First the highs:
- Last weekend over 8,000 people experienced God at Seacoast Church! What a great way to start the New Year. Many of our campuses were full and overflowing. For those at the Long Point campus, people were turned away from the main worship center at the 9:30 service. We ran out of seats, worship guides and parking for both Sunday worship times. Let’s work together to make sure that we don’t have to turn people away this weekend. I’ll make sure we have more worship guides and additional seating will be available in the Chapel at 11:15 am beginning January 21st.
***Here is your part. Can you commit to come to Saturday night at 6:15 or go to the Chapel or the Warehouse on Sunday if at all possible? Your commitment to this will help those who are new get a seat in the Worship Center.***
- We started our new series, “New & Improved”. This is a verse by verse study of the book of Ephesians. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time. I believe God is going to draw us into loving him more and appreciating each other better as we study this great book to the church.
- On Wednesday morning I had the privilege to speak at the prayer service preceding the inauguration of Governor Sanford. I am honored to be asked…let’s not forget to pray for Mark and Jenny Sanford and their family as they lead our state government.
The low:
- Our family experienced the unexpected death of my son-in-law Ben Mayer’s father, Russ Mayer. For Russ this was a home going as we know he was a Christ-follower. Ben serves as an assisting pastor in the Summerville Campus. Russ died in a plane crash not far from his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As you can imagine, this week has been a trying time for our whole family. The church has been great in expressing your love…please continue to pray for Ben and Jenny.
Pastor Greg,
Please pass along my condolences to Ben and Jenny. I lost my dad when I was about Ben's age.
It's good to have you back on in the blogshpere. I just heard the first message on Ephesians today at Summerville. I have been looking forward to the new series. Ephesians was the first book of The Living Bible that I recorded to MP3 for my podcast.
I was also excited to hear about the new Internet campus. I just heard about this new venue today during the message. I plan to check it out in the next couple of weeks. I can only image the level of creativity that has gone into this given the talent behind the scenes at Seacoast.
Comment by Hank Osborne — January 14, 2007 @ 11:38 am
I think Granger Community Church sold pizzas on Saturday nights to get people to come Saturday night and eat in the auditorium at round tables set up in the back and and now they have more people coming to that service than any other. Just thought of that in reading about your many folks. A nice problem to have. Thanks for the blog.
Comment by Andy Rowell — February 14, 2007 @ 9:26 am