Monday, October 29, 2007

Sunday mind dump

Wow what a crazy busy week last week was. Much of the stuff still has yet to be decided but it is exciting at the same time. So here are a few things bouncing around the ping-pong table inside my head today.
  • Had a great visit with the Lifechurch.tv network church that April and I saw last Sunday in Champaign Ill. It was a very cool thing and might really work well for us. April began to see what I see in terms of the possibilities that a partnership might bring for our church.
  • Saw the building our by the airport for the first time. I wasn't blow away but there would be some things that would be nice about it. We are going to go through the processes of figuring out if it'll work. There are two central issues. First, there are some cosmetic problems which are an easy fix. The bigger issue is that the building is on the small size, by the time that we built walls for classrooms we might not have enough space for a main sanctuary.
  • One of the cool things about the church we saw in Ill is that they actually set up in warehouse space. Their layout was perfect and they really did a killer job of making it look really good. That got me thinking about the possibility of doing that here. Retail space is 4 times more costly than warehouse space. I have done some looking and there are some warehouse spaces that would work well for us.
  • I am really looking forward to the next few services. We are going to cover the topics of addiction and pornography. We have a guest speaker at each of the next two services that's going to tell us how their lives were almost destroyed by this stuff. It'll be cool, really cool.
  • I have been thinking of some ways we can use technology to help us with growing our people. I am not quite ready to share it yet but it'll come soon. Lets just say I am really pumped about it.
I can't wait to see everyone next weekend for part two of My Secrets: Addictions. Be prepared to be amazed by some of the stories that you'll hear. If you have some one in your life that struggles with ANY kind of addiction do whatever you have to do and get them to church next Sunday!