Been a While

I want to start by saying that I am sorry for not updating this in FOREVER !!

Things have been REALLY busy with life, work, and Oak Leaf.  I want to take a couple of minutes and talk about how AWESOME my God is.  I have been given some opportunities to serve this past week and it has been great.  I spent last weekend helping to redeem a building for God, and this weekend I was given the chance to be a part of The School of Worship with Will Goodwin.  It was an awesome site to behold with so many kids engaged in worshiping God, I had tears running down my face just thinking about them being the FUTURE of his kingdom.  My prayer is that they will not stray and push through the struggles that they face being a teenager in this day and time.  Today started out pretty rough, we were at the theater early, but things just seemed to take SO LONG, and we had all types of problems technically.  I have to admit that I just had to walk away and take a minute with God to reaffirm what I was doing and not give up. Things got finished up right as people were walking into the theater.  I spent the entire first service praying that God would continue to do great things in Cartersville through Oak Leaf Church.  The second service went a little smoother and had quite a few more people in it than the first one. Now here is where God showed up……… we started letting people in and just like the prior service, we stopped letting people in when the first song started to allow the room to be completely dark. I was stoked because all the seats were filled at that point and couldn’t tell that anyone was outside waiting.  First song was over and the doors were reopened…..people were coming into the theater in groves, we ran out of the plastic chairs that were brought in and had people sitting on the steps and standing all along the walls.  It tore me up BIG TIME, I couldn’t help it. I was crying like a little baby.  I know that God was showing me first hand why we do what we do even when things look like they are going so crappy.  He is the reason we are there, He is the reason we get up at 4am on Sunday, He is the reason we stay and sweat after everyone else has left, HE IS THE REASON !!!

Thank you God for all that you do and for loving us when we don’t deserve it.

The official count for this Sunday was 912 people.  The largest non-Easter attendence at Oak Leaf Church.  You can read more about this on Michael’s Blog here.