Sunday Night Thoughts...

Today was such a great day, here are a few of my thoughts:

• We seemed to have a packed house in our Sunday Morning Experience (there were a ton of kids)
• Everyone seemed to be shocked by the major project we've been working on this week...we completely demo'd our current welcome room. We busted down a ton of cement walls, my old office, and an old storage room to make one big ginormous welcome center. It really is going to be great!
• Tonight was our annual shoe box wrapping party for Operation Christmas Child for Samaritan's Purse. I have to say, Teresa Spell really does a great job organizing this event. There were tons of volunteers and a ton of shoe boxes were packed and wrapped. I really enjoy having Teresa and her husband Ricky in our church. Their son, Ryan, is in my youth group and Ricky and Teresa always chaperone, volunteer, lead...they are great servants!!
• Pastor Chris rocked my face off with his message today...we are still in our SiMPLE church series and today was GiVE iT. The message was all about serving and reaching out to people. It was a good reminder that we don't do church for us, its all about people who don't know God.
• Splitting the Middle School and High School has been the best thing we have ever done! In one week we have already grown 75%!
• Andy, one of our student ministry volunteers/intern, spoke tonight in our Jonah series. He did a great job! Really related how he is very much like Jonah.
• I'm sitting here watching some stupid commercials on TV and the new mac ad came on, I LOVE IT. You can watch it here. It's so true. I hate the new Vista on the PC. Cyndi and I had to get a new PC (for her school stuff) and it came with Vista...it sucks! As soon as we have the money I'm buying her a mac (or maybe getting me a new mac and giver her my current one-she hates when I do that)
• This seemed to be a losing weekend for all of my teams (except Clemson!), Lions lost, Michigan lost. On a plus, Ohio State loss and so did South Carolina (I'm still trying to figure out why in the world would you want a Chicken as your mascot?)

Well, Cyndi has the day off tomorrow and so we are going to hang out, but for now I'm off to bed.