Creative Scribble

I had lunch today with a student at UT who will be leading worship every Thursday night for a campus worship service. Talking with him took me back to 7 years ago when I was leading worship for the same service each week.

I'll never forget the first time I did it. It was just me singing and playing a keyboard with a girl singing too. I was freaked out. And I wasn't very good, either. I had never led worship solo like that and didn't really know much about what I was doing.

I look back on that and wonder "How in the world did I end up doing that in the first place?"

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Today some of our OneLifers got together and passed out door hangers in some neighborhoods. These doorhangers have a really cool design and two coupons from a restaurant owner who wanted to help us out. So not only do they let people know about OneLife Church but they provide free food, too! A great combination, I think

But apparently not everyone agrees.

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We have been really blessed early on to have a good bit of publicity for OneLife Church. This is a huge help because it means more people are hearing about our church without us having to spend thousands of dollars to make it happen! Check out the three articles, including the one that will reach the most in today's Knoxville News Sentinel.

Knoxville News Sentinel, August 12

Knox County Focus, July 27 (page 15)

Baptist and Reflector, July 29

Probably my most boring blog post yet, but oh well. We really need to sell this stuff! A few months ago we bought an entire used portable church system from another church plant. We already had our sound equipment when we made this purchase, so now we have a sound system we need to sell. Basically, it is an amp, two speakers, a subwoofer, and monitors. All the details are below. It was used less than a year and is in GREAT condition!If you are at all interested, please contact Tyler Goode asap!

(2) OAP 1561 - 15” 3-WAY MAINS (90DEG X 40DEG @ 400WATT RMS) -

(1) OAP LF-115 - SINGLE 15” SUBWOOFER (1200WATT RMS) -

(3) OAP CM-112 - 12” 2-WAY MONITORS (100DEG X 50DEG @400WATT RMS) -

(1) CROWN XTI2000 - 475/800/1000W (8/4/2 OHM) POWER AMPLIFIER -

(1) YAMAHA MG32 - 32 CHANNEL CONSOLE, 6 AUX, 4 SUB-GROUPS, AND BUILT-IN EFX -

It is so amazing to see such awesome stories come out of just one preview service at OneLife. We haven’t even officially launched, but yet God is already using this church to help people discover Him and how their one life can make a difference.

My favorite story so far is of our decision to give all of the money away from our first public offering. First of all, that’s insane for us to do it. We still need about $3,000 to miraculously come in by September to pay for everything that we’ve committed to for our launch. We could have definitely used that money to put a dent into this deficit.

But I’m glad we didn’t.

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