kick off your mundane shoes!

wrapped up a great weekend @southlandcc today. always love these weekends where things are out of the norm for us. we added 4 services in 3 different venues, ran volunteers back and forth to sing and read scripture (Tom and i sang "footloose" 7 times!), had staff step up to fill needed holes and created other jobs just to create a more inviting atmosphere and most importantly had more 150 people choose Christ in the pond!

so often we can get caught up in the mundane, week to week routine that programming and executing services can become but its weeks like this that i am reminded how much effort, talents and heart we have at this church. a great example of this was the connection team - they stepped up the intentionality of connecting people at the pond and an event that we have held 3 times in the past year was taken up a notch! it was easy to check-in, there were plenty of people along the way to converse and answer questions, and they accomplished all of this with folks that aren't normally part of weekend experiences. what a great feeling knowing people uniquely gifted to connect people and help them find their "next step" were handling an event that often was an additional stress and not in the "sweet spot" of the weekend teams! i am so grateful for their willingness to step in to the gap!

overall the entire southland staff could be found all over our campuses this weekend. from teaching our children, to prepping communion, even riding the buses as pseudo tour guides! and everyone of them i ran into had the biggest smiles on their faces! awesome family i get to be a part of!

i'm excited to hear stories from our danville campus team that we can add to all the amazing ones at the harrodsburg rd. campus. thanks God for Easter, for Your Church, for Your People, for giving us LIFE that we were able to pour back out over the last 3 days!

if you weren't there you should check out jon's message and plan to join us this weekend! i promise you'll be met with people who want to help you find connection and a message that will inspire you to go deeper with God.