All I can say about yesterday is . . . WOW! I felt as if there was not much more that God could do to help make the day any better! Our morning service was really unbelievable! Our band did such a great job leading us in worship as well as Paige helping me with the sermon. It was really cool to hear about what God is doing through the Passion movement and their support for the eight missions groups that were highlighted at the conference. (More on this in a later post. . . so much to say. . . so little time!)

In the evening, we had our Annual Banquet. It was one of the best banquets we have ever had! We decided to go with an ‘Oscar’ theme this year-complete with the red carpet! The 1st Annual “Finley” Awards were a real hit with everyone. Leslie and her crew did an awesome job, as usual, with the decorations; Kaylyn did an awesome job with the food; and I can’t thank our childcare folks enough for their hard work! You ALL represented us very well!

My side still hurts from laughing so hard at Jeff Houghton’s crew from Skinny Improv! It has been a long time since I have laughed so hard. . . especially in church. Thanks again Jeff for coming out and making us laugh! I think Paul says it best “rejoice in the always, and again I say, REJOICE!” Paul had to repeat it to us so we wouldn’t forget. Sometimes I think we all forget that God wants us to have fun as the Church. We need to take our calling very seriously, but no ourselves too seriously!

I will post some more emails and comments from many of you who had such a great time later on this week. I can’t think of a better way to end our 4 years as a church than with the day we had yesterday! We all left that place smiling at what God has done over this time and excited about Regeneration coming up this month! See you Saturday night at the Core! Thank you God for 4 unbelievable years and we look forward to many, many more years of fun. Fasten your seat belts!