Weekly Rundown (12.13.09)

• Preaching about the Cross can never get old because understanding & applying the Cross is as essential as breathing!!


• Great to celebrate baptism today.


• Spent some time planning our missions giving for 2010.  I am pumped about all the ways we as a church will be able to support God's causes --
  
  
  
  • Lots of various efforts in NW Georgia:
    
    
    
    • Crisis pregnancy; food & clothing assistance; benevolences; homelessness
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • A medical missionary to Kenya.
  
  
  • Missionary in the Middle East.
  
  
  • Efforts to relieve world hunger.
  
  
  • Church plants in 3 different states (Georgia, Tennesse, and Florida).
  
  
  
  


• God blew me away on Friday with an amazing conversation about His radical, unfailing love and then a big, breakthrough about getting our 3rd site up and rolling in Chatsworth ... stuff I've been praying over for months, starting to materialize as God's faithfulness and perfect timing bears fruit for His glory!!


• Great meeting with new Calhoun Elders ... great to be able to expand the local leadership efforts at that Campus.


• Beginning some cool discussions about how to better mobilize our church to serve.


• Prayer requests:
  
  
  
  • Direction and guidance about foreign missions.  The opportunities are endless and all very good ... seeking THE opportunity God prepared long ago for us to walk in -- Ephesians 2:10.
  
  
  • 2010 opportunities in NW Georgia: 3rd site in Chatsworth, 3rd service (Thursday night), and "building favor" in Calhoun.
  
  
  • Sermon and worship planning for 2010.
  
  
  
  


• HAVE A GREAT WEEK :)