Sunday Night Review 08
What in the world – it was a crazy good day at Elmwood! People are coming out of the wood-work we had 455 total today which is close to 200 more than last year and 455 more than the year before that!! I am just blown away at what God is doing in and through the lives of those who are calling Elmwood home. Talked with John today – recovering drug-addict – God is helping him – he is doing great – he...
Moving Day!
Hey it’s moving day for our partners in crime Peace of the City! We will be heading down to the corner of Byrd and Hoyt to help the load up at 10:00 this morning until we get done… hopefully around Noon. So if you have some free time this morning come on down and join the FUN! We made the announcement Sunday that Peace of the City will be moving their Head Quarters to the third floor of the school building on are new...
Birthday Girls
There are two Cockrell women who are having B-Days today my incredible, talented, beautiful wife – Gloria! And then my wonderful, still going really strong at 96 Grandma Cockrell! It is a beautiful day to celebrate life isn’t it?! Unfortunately for many in our city it is another day of mourning. There have been 3 shootings in 5 days on the Westside. 2 lives have been tragically taken, needlessly – we live in a...
Middle School Kick-off!
The Family Ministry kicked off another season for our MiddleSchool HomeGroup tonight and according to my 7th grade daughter it was great! I really appreciate the leadership of Earl, Sean, Andrew, Janelle, and Hanna! It is always tough to raise up a student ministry but we have started and we will continue to gather momentum – insight for the needs of young teens in our city – a place of safety, acceptance, love, honor,...
Monday Morning Insights
It was great to kick off the new series Letters to the Next President yesterday and it was also great to see tons of first time guest and folks coming back for the 2nd – 3rd time! We had more people backed up to come in than ever before. When I finished our prayer we must have had over 100 people flood in – it was great. I think we are going to have to get a new coffee brewer to keep up with the demand of our new...