Weekly Rundown: 7.27.08

• Great week this week at RBCC as we prepare for school to start back.


• I usually try to be about 2-3 weeks ahead with my message prep ... this helps our worship teams and creative planning process.  However, I got behind with vacation so I buckled down and prepared two messages this week.  Our creative folks will be happy :)


• I heard the other day that preaching one sermon is like running a 5k due to the emotions, adrenaline, etc.  That explains why I tend to crash Sunday afternoon!


• Calhoun Blog is up and running: www.rockbridgecalhoun.com.  This is the place to know what's happening at our Calhoun campus.


• We're making some progress in getting people to step up to facilitate new small groups.  Small groups are so important in building relationships and growing together in Christ.  GROUPLINK is coming up at both campuses in the next few weeks to connect people with a small group experience.


• Football is just around the corner and yes I plan on doing Football Friday again.


• I can't tell you how pumped I am about our new series, DOMINO.  I am praying about this series and all that God wants to accomplish through it.  Please pray for me and this series.  It is going to be challenging, uplifting, life-altering, and God-glorifying.  (I'll post more this week about it ... just pray!)


• Through a few "God" orchestrated circumstances, we were able to give away a car last week ... it was incredible!!


• Dalton Student Ministry has a new staff member: John Melick.  We moved some staff around to better support our Children's Ministry at both our campuses and put Gus Waters full-time in Children's Ministry (Gus was spending time in both children and student ministry).  As a result our staffing in student ministry dropped to less than it was a year ago, and with more students and a new venue coming this Fall we needed to fill this hole.  John will be leading worship & student band, helping to get students involved & serving according to their gifts, programming our large group environments, and various other things.  John is a super musician with a great voice.  But even better is his character, humility, passion for excellence in worship, and desire to empower others to serve Christ.


• I've got this "restless" peace going on right now ... "restless" about all that is going on and coming up but a ton of God's peace.  It's pretty cool ... I'm not in control but He is!