#1      THANK YOU to every person that cleaned, set up, invited and prayed for our church last weekend. You were relentless, loving and unified. I believe every visitor saw a church that was LIFE-GIVING because of you. Heaven is more crowded because of YOU!

#2      We had over 700 people come to church! WOW!  Let me give you some perspective….13 months ago we had 70 people attending a preview service….What I love is that new families and individuals are engaging with GOD and are about to SEE HOW REAL HE IS!

#3      Let’s keep doing what it takes to get people to church. Don’t give up on someone because they were not able to come or didn’t receive Christ.  Every week we are going to do everything we can to make sure the Gospel is clear…it’s not just an Easter thing for our Church.  We still live in a community where 70% of our population don’t attend church.  Let’s be the difference and let’s LIVE REAL, AUTHENTIC LOVE in front of them.

#4   Our THRIVE KIDZ team blew it UP!  They ministered to hundreds of children and made the GREAT EGG CHASE look easy!  I Love that our kids heard the real story about Easter -Jesus on the cross because of love. (At the bottom are the two lucky winners that took home new bikes from the Egg Chase – the bikes are pretty cool – no Huffy’s here. And the winner of a Nintendo DS!)

#5   Loved kicking off our new series : “the office -thank God for work” – We came face to face with the reality that at the end of the day everything we achieve that we can categorize as “stuff” goes back into the box…..what really makes us RICH is our relationships with God and with others……

Thrive, I love being your pastor, I love your passion for people and I if this is year 1 – can’t wait to see what year 2,3,4…20 looks like

Tom