Easter Weekend!

Date 3.25.08

 SERVICE TIMES THIS WEEK: 9:00am and 10:45am Don’t forget!

What an amazing weekend we had as a church!  We had over 900 people in attendance over 5 services including Good Friday!!  That is a new record for weekend attendance at tides church.

Good Friday was full of creative elements and powerful worship.  Easter was packed with excitement and tons of new people from the commumity and all over the city.  Several people prayed to receive Christ for the first time and many others made recommitments to make a fresh start.  No matter how you look at it Easter ‘08 was definatley our best Easter weekend ever!

On another note on monday I took a PMS (post ministry syndrome) day.  I slept in and hung out with my kids til the afternoon and then spent some time with my good friend Chad Ormsby planning his wifes celebration of life service.  Gwyn, Chads wife lost her 7 year struggle with ALS (Lou Gerig’s disease) this past week.  Gwyn was an amazing woman who battled like no other to hang on as long as possible for her husband and two little girls Kathryn (8) and Madison (4).  She will always be remembered by me as one of the bravest and strongest people I have ever met.

Tomorrow I will spend a lot of time working on our new series coming up called Fearless which I am really excited about.  We will be addressing the area of Fear.  I have been asked by many of you to tackle this tough subject for a while now so here we go this should be an amazing ride!  Pray for me though I have a busy week ahead with two weddings and two rehearsal dinners planned for the end of the week.  This will be back to back crazy weekends but it’s woth it.  There is nothing like watching the lives of men and women being impacted right before your very eyes.  Have a great week yourselves and we’ll see you Sunday for the start of FEARLESS!