Journey Church Update...from my perspective!

Church was so great today, it made you think that this is the way church is supposed to really be. We did something different by having Jon's sermon at the very beginning after a video and song. The message today was about reaching out and Jon just kept reminding us that 50,000 people die everyday without knowing Christ. What an overwhelming number...but we can start one at a time. Then we played a video with the song "Tears of the Saints". One of the lines says, "this is an emergency"...whoa. While the video played, we could write names on the stage of people that we are praying for to come to Christ. Now we will see those names every Sunday, and hopefully remember.

After service, we had a GroupLink lunch where we met with our LifeGroups for this semester and got to know eachother a bit and got info about our first group, etc. Anyway, this was really exciting for our group because we had two new couples (we're doing a Young Married group and the time they have all been marred does not even add up to half the years Jon and I have been married!) who have only been coming to Journey for three weeks and are already getting involved in a group. So cool!

And to top it all off, attendance was really good in spite of all the rain we've had this weekend. Even new people came out in the pouring rain...and Jon was worried last night! There were so many things that went wrong this morning before church, the projector was not working at 9:50am and Jon's mic was not working at 9:45am. We had to move our BabySteps due to flooding in the hallway and there were buckets everywhere for the leaky roof. God and His purposes are so much bigger than physical problems and it was awesome to see His work happening in spite of all the distractions. He obviously really wanted us to hear this message today. God is so good!