Wow what a great day!
We baptized 3 people this morning during worship and we have 2 more who want to be. We also had a couple join the church. It was a great day! I have had several people ask me if I could put the video up from the baptisms, so here it is.
Enjoy.
I have talked about it before, but we just finished Summer Slam. It was awesome! Take a look at the 2 videos below. The first is a promo video for the event and the second is a highlight video countdown we used for our Sunday service.
Promo video
Highlight video countdown
A group of Sr. high students our intern, Aaron, Wendy a girl on our volunteer staff and myself are here in beautiful east Tenn. at Milligan College, for CIY Summer Conference. If you have never had any contact with CIY and you are involved in student ministry these guys are the real deal. They do an awesome job of creating environments where your students will connect with God and you are free to connect with you students. I am always amazed by CIY’s creativity in presenting Jesus. They do an awesome job.
So anyway the them this week is “ones”. The idea is that we were never meant to live alone. Tonight Tim Grayy spoke and we looked at John 4, the woman at the well. Just like her we all have been injured. Jesus wants to heal that injury and give us life. In our youth group time we went around and shared how we have been injured. We than broke into groups and prayed for each other. It was a very powerful time for our group.
We all carry so much pain and hurt that we were never designed to carry. The church is to be the place that others help us carry those pains and work through those injuries. We were all challenged to start being the church by making a our student ministries a place that we share our injuries and allow Jesus to use us to minister to each other. It was a great night.
So there is a lot of talk around Dutch Fork about our upcoming summer slam, so I figured I would post the video promo. This sould answer a few questions. Michelle originally posted it to her blog, but but hey maybe there is someone who doesn’t read her blog out there. (She has way more readers than I do).
So Summer Slam is a 2 day event Dutch Fork Christian Church is doing to reach our neighborhood. We are bringing in a prfessional BMX bike group to do 2 shows and a bike safety demonstration. We are giving away 4 bicycles and tons of bike helmets. There will be free concessions, rides and games as well.
Day 2 is our worship service with a little remix. We want to be very intentional about communicating the gospel and that will happen. Pray that God moves and many lives are changed.
I am praying for 2000 people to attend on Sat. and 500 people to attend on Sun. My wife tells me I am insane and there is no way that those kids of numbers are possible, but “what if” it were? Only God knows.
