Celebrate Easter Victories

There are so many victories that we can celebrate about yesterday's Easter services - and MANY of them that we can't - simply b/c we don't know about them yet!

Celebrate: Staff Team - you did it and made such an impact in the lives of our people and community.  Thank you for your constant hard work, preparation, investments in our people, and creativity to make it all an incredible experience.  You are awesome - and I look forward to just hanging out with you tomorrow night when I beat you down at the Nintendo Wii and eat some Moe's!

Celebrate: VL is the best group of people in the world!  You deserve to be thanked and encouraged in a HUGE way!  You went over and above to help our guests feel welcomed, loved, and valued.  

• Inviting and Bringing people
• Serving with an incredible heart, spirit, smile, and attitude
• Carpooling and Parking all around to leave the best spots for our guests
• Arriving early and on time - and sitting in the front (where NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE!) and middle of the rows
• Catching the vision, passion, and desire that God has for us
• Being the Church to our community
• Encouraging your pastor like none other!  I love you!

Celebrate: SO many guests that came!  Incredible stories that we do know and some that we don't know - that deserve MUCH celebration that they just came!  In addition to people inviting and bringing others, the mail-out that everyone worked on so hard was worth every minute and penny spent.  It truly gave a great representation of who Vinings Lake is in order to give our community a welcoming glimpse of our church.

Celebrate: All the kids - Preschool and KidMo.  We offered KidMo at both hours this week and it was VERY effective!

Celebrate: Largest attendance we have ever seen on our campus with 519 people between our 2 morning services.

Celebrate: Our new Marriage and Relationships series kicked off GREAT!  Our media team and band hit a home run with graphics, environment, lights, video, songs - fun and very worshipful!  The message seemed to really connect and I am excited about the next 3 weeks of this series.

Celebrate: Lives that were touched, maybe realized God's love for them for the first time - or in a long time, opened to taking a step toward Jesus, challenged in their marriages and relationships, changed through faith in Jesus, and the many who came and felt welcomed to come back.

Celebrate: Our opportunity and vision to see people come, connect, and commit - happening right before our eyes!

I am so grateful for this journey the Lord has called me to be on - and all the amazing people that I get to take this journey with!