2 Year’s!
2 years ago this weekend we launched The Chapel at Elmwood!
Today I along with my fam got to experience another launch… Restoration Church!
What a beautiful day to witness new life! Dan, Alex and Wes and the whole Restoration team did a great job. I could get used to going around and visiting new communities of Faith! I can’t wait to see our friends over at NorthGate launch in August!
I can remember the feelings/emotions of launching Elmwood and most recently Renovation. With Renovation you knew people were going to show up because we had a year and half of history to stand on… with Elmwood I remember thinking is anybody going to show up… and then if they did would they come back?!
There is no feeling like it… working like crazy as if it depends on you/team and praying and trusting/knowing that ultimately it depends totally on God!
What a journey it has been over the last 2 years. I have learned so much, I have seen so much, experienced so much… about God and how He has so faithfully and at times forcefully provided for…, connected with…, stopped…, started…, waited to…,expanded…,
I love telling people about the journey that God has allowed us to take… especially when it is with those who are considering a similar path… I love to tell them that if God can do it with us (elmwood/renovation) He can and will come through for you… and move in you and through you!
This week is going to be a another great week of connecting…
Mayor Brown is coming to take a tour of Renovation this week! So cool to be able to share with him and his staff what God has and is doing in NW Buffalo through the Church/People!
We are meeting with Westside churches and ministries to continue to strategize together about how to impact our youth for good, for greatness!
We are meeting with NW churches and ministries to begin to strategize together about how to impact our community and how to reduce the “lostness” of our community and how to bring Up there Down here!
Getting ready for our first Easter as we present Easter Jam!
We had a great time at the second go-round for our experience called NEXT. We had about 25 come and hang out with us today at both times… love to hear how people have found their way to Renovation. We helped them understand who we are and who we are not and how we roll… which is a little different then most people’s “past church experience.” We basically try to explain to everybody that if you want to call Renovation home then we need you to do for others what others have done for you… so take the NEXT Step and get inVOLVED at some level with your time, energy, passion, resources!
The short film we saw today is called MOST. It is the most powerful description of what God did for us that I think I have ever seen. I believe there were some of you today that received the GIFT of eternal life that your Father offered to you through His son Jesus!
So proud to have a team at Renovation that is highly capable to execute a Gathering experience without me in the mix… I walked in at the back during the last part of the 11:00 gathering and just watched… I felt like a coach watching the team execute the “game plan.” Great job TEAM!
Speaking of executing a game plan… wow did Michigan State run Coach Izzo’s to perfection last night?! I loved watchin them take it to U Conn… not real fond of U Conn. Love the passion and fire that Coach Izzo coaches with… 5 Final 4′s in 11 years… might be the best coach in the land. I just hope it will be a good game tomorrow night… always a little sad to see it all come to and end… I always watch to they play One Shinning Moment!
That’s it for another Sunday rewind… thanks Father God for what You have done and are doing and will do for Your Honor, Your Fame and for our great benefit!
