Creative Scribble

It's hard to believe that in two weeks from today the launch of OneLife Church will be complete. After two years of build up, we are cocked and loaded to fire away and get this thing started.

So for now it feels like the calm before the storm. We've done two preview services that have both blown our minds. All of the equipment that we need has been purchased. The Launch Team has all been assigned to their volunteer roles. The first two services are all planned out. The advertising and marketing is complete. So now we wait.

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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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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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Today is an interesting day for me, as it has been for the past couple of years. On the calendar it is just another day – May 24. But for me it is a day that brings back many memories. At first the memories bring tears but then those tears become smiles and even prayers of thanks, which is kind of weird. Because this is the day I experienced a huge loss, now three years ago, when my grandmother, “Nanny,” passed away.

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Sorry for the long blog silence. I am writing this post from the library in the sleepy town of Louisiana, Missouri. Thanks to my wife having a business trip nearby, we get a couple of days in an awesome little bed and breakfast here on the banks of the Mississippi River. Trying to enjoy every second of wife-time as possible before life gets crazy in the next few months.

Since the last post, God has answered some humongous prayers. As I posted on April 26, we needed $10,000 to come in miraculously so we could secure the purchase of an almost brand new portable church system (read about it here). I didn’t know how it would happen or where it would come from. But we prayed and it did.

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