These were my thoughts early in the day yesterday. One of our key guys missed set-up but let me just say he deserved it. He has been there every weekend since we started and I know first hand how difficult that is. He travels all over the place for work and still gives InDependence 110%.  

God has really blessed our ministry with some incredibly dedicated people and we are slowly gaining more and more. We have a wonderful lady who braves the heat and the cold every week and still greets people with a smile. A sound guy who has grabbed that job by the horns and every week makes time to take on other responsibilities. We have two video guys who do an awesome job of keeping up with their spastic pastor who tries to give them one surprise (others might call them mistakes) every week.   We have entire families that are committed to doing whatever we ask them to do, and lots of times the things we ask lead to great sacrifice on their part. We have new friends that are a huge blessing every time they come to church because we don’t even have to ask them to help…they just do. I have a 4-year old that loves going to get the InDependence trailer every Saturday and hops out of bed every Sunday at 6:40am to help us set-up. I have a wife who loves me enough to support the vision that God gave me and even though it isn’t God’s ultimate vision for her, she does whatever it takes including doing a great job as our interim Children’s Pastor. 

I have started down this road and I can’t get off so… For the last three weeks that I have been tracking this, we have over 40% of our adults serving in some way every weekend. Many of them are serving in multiple ways. I don’t know a pastor in the country or in the world for that matter who wouldn’t be excited about that. I am proud to be a part of the ministry at InDependence in part because of the amazing people that I am not only doing ministry with…but doing life with. 

So quickly back to my initial thought because I am way over my 5 minute limit… God turned yesterday into a great day. He showed up big, brought us our second largest crowd behind our launch, lots of first time guests, and in spite of my doubtful attitude going into the day, made yesterday a huge success. 

Ps. Thanks Carl for hooking me up with my blog. Anytime you need some styling cues just let me know because nobody does pea green like me.