Sunday afternoon high lights.

I think this picture kind of sums up our launch day. After all the wind and rain overnight and the weather forecast for snow squalls this morning...the sun popped out as I was setting up the tent at 7:30 before the crew showed up at 8. It may have looked like an empty nightclub parking lot to people passing by...but it felt a lot like heaven to me.

Here's the highlight reel:

• We had a great lot of help setting up from Friendship Community Church! You guys rock!!! We couldn't have done it without you!
• Several "new" people (like anyone is an "old timer") stayed to help tear down.
• We had 120+ people in service...about 100 were "ours"...I am excited about what this means as we build toward Easter.
• Response to our new "survey cards" was great! Lots were filled out and the comments were awesome...I didn't even get a single person named "Phil McCracken or Ben Dover"...you had to be there.
• The single highest response to "how did you hear about us was"... Radio! Way to go 105.7 the X. Our only paid advertisement was on radio and I really think it is a good medium for us. We will be running more (new) ads next week. We did not do any mailings or newspaper ads...
• The single most generous thing anyone has ever done for actionchurch came from the owners of Fat Daddy's...I am literally speechless.
• No offering, no hardsell, no problem...our people absolutely stepped up to support actionchurch!
• Clean Slate rocked as usual...can't wait til they play again March 2nd. They absolutely nailed Alterbridge "Rise today".
• My computer SUCKS!!!! My windows crashed with only 5 minutes until the service started at 11. We started two minutes late but our video was up...we did end on time though. (12 noon)
• Great response on the cards to people wanting to help set up or in actionkidz. YEAH!
• I love preaching at actionchurch...next week is gonna be even better!