New Life Parkfest

First of all, I just wanted to announce to everyone that our Church website has finally launched!!!! Woo hoo!!!! There are still some updates that we need to do, but it's running! I have attached the address: thenewlifecommunity.com

Ok, so we had our New Life Community Church Parkfest yesterday and it was definitely great! We had a blast and had a great turn out! Hopefully I'll be able to place pictures up pretty soon!

We had a young adult team down from a church in Wisconsin. Many those guys were awesome!! I led worship with their worship team. It was an awesome time. They arrived on Thursday and started to work on helping "update" our church. They painted the inside and outside of our church.... now it looks AWESOME!!!!!! I'll take some pictures pretty soon and post them up. I got back in town on Saturday afternoon, from JP and Jana's wedding (congrats guys!!!!) and when I drove up to the church they were almost done painting. It was one of the best surprises I could of come back to. So I gathered my guitar and equipment up and headed home (actually to get a new cell phone.... I need everyone's numbers). I arrived at the Vlasses Park early Sunday morning to get setup. I finally met the band that morning and we had our first run through for the worship set. Now, normally I panic at this point. I'm a stickler for practicing until we have the whole set this down and can play it in our sleep. Well, we had one run through and decided that was enough.

The worship set was awesome!!!!!! I can't believe how well we all meshed and how quickly it happened!!! It was so refreshing to go through a worship set like that! I am so worked up about it that I've had a hard time sleeping! This whole weekend was an upper for me! Coming back to see the church painted and having a great service where people really responded to God and to our vision is what I really needed. We are moving along quite nicely! Hopefully soon we'll have new lighting!!

I say all of that to say that sometimes things seem to stop and you seem to be making no progress. That time will pass and all of your hard work and time spent agonizing over the little details will lead to your dream being realized! You just have to embrace patience and realize God is working things out in His own way.

Now it's time to dream more....... dream bigger.... and dream cooler (don't know what that means).