First Sunday

We had an absolutely amazing first Sunday in our new building yesterday. There were absolutely no kinks in the actual service (that I was aware of). Everyone knew where they were supposed to be, the sound guys were great, and the video guys did a fantastic job, too!
The things that I heard about: children's check-in has gone all electronic, with a really cool new card-scanning program (kind of like a library card, or a Kroger's card), and everyone was just getting used to that. Plus, we ran about 1000 in attendance yesterday (about 250-300 more than normal - and this was just our SOFT opening! Grand opening month starts next Sunday!! WOW!), so the parking was a MAJOR issue - we are required to hire cops now that we're in the building and on a major street (Kuykendahl), and that went pretty smoothly, but we just don't have anywhere left for people to park! Grass would probably have worked, but it's been raining all week, so the mud would not be good. And the time between services was a headache...we may need to start parking in the Lowe's lot down the street and shuttling people, until we get more parking lots poured.

Yesterday evening, we had a dedication service, which was a little more mellow worship time, and lots of prayer and praise. It was just amazing (lasted a good hour and a half). I was able to help lead worship at both services (morning and evening) by singing back-up, which was just humbling, to say the least. I loved standing up there, being the "prompter" and hearing the voices of people singing their praise to God. I had the best seat in the house!!!

The energy of yesterday, for me, still hasn't worn off. I'm so excited to go back and do more of yesterday!!

Gary stayed home today (took a sick day) to rest and relax after an extremely exhausting and strenuous week last week moving everything and getting it all set up for the first Sunday (I encouraged him to). His health has been so good for the entirety of our marriage (almost 4 years!), but we both know that even the slightest bit of stress can bring on bad things with his Crohn's.Well, I'm off to clean a little. Moses threw up last night in two places, so I'm going to pull out the carpet cleaner (that was actually on my to-do list for Spring Break...Moses just held me to it!). We've put him on new food, Beneful, because we couldn't find his normal food last time we went to the store, and he loves it so much that he scarfs it down really fast. Also, he gets into the trash cans and pulls out the trash and chews on it, and yesterday he got into the one that Gary had thrown away a paper towel with shoe polish on it. Moses pulled that out and started tearing it up. I think that probably had something to do with his regurgitation, as well... (sorry - TMI??)