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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Weekend Madness

  • Wow another busy week. Maybe this week will be a little bit slower.
  • Thursday night we installed new stage lighting back in Kidz Cove. I really think it is going to help out big time.
  • Friday night I had a meeting with one of my KEY volunteers Cathi Loftin. Man she really has the heart of a saint. She is so on fire to reach children it makes me want to do more. And her husband Johnny is a class act. He is a KEY volunteer in Big Rock. Just a great family.
  • Friday Laura and I also got to play Rock Band over at Cathi and Johnny's house. One word AWESOME
  • Saturday had a service a the Emily Krzyzewski Family Life Center here in Durham. I don't really like Coach K as a Coach (Only cause he coach's the Devils). But as a person he seems really nice. And he has built a first class building in honor of his mother.
  • Saturday night we had a great service at the Creek
  • Dinner on Saturday was the bomb can you say Kanki
  • Sunday Scott wrapped up our series eXposed with exposing the truth about Eternity. And man he hit it out of the park. Great Job Scott
  • Chris and his team really did a great job on the worship set this week. Sorry for the life of me I can't remember the opening song
  • Back in Kidz Cove things are going gang busters. Kids are doing everything they can to earn Cove Cash. And more important kids are having fun in church while learning values and life lessons
  • Big Rock hosted Real Life Live tonight. Real Life Live is a parent/teen night where we teach both about respecting one another and how to show that respect.
  • Great dinner tonight cause it was Home Cookin' made by yours truly
  • Can't wait for Wednesday cause I am playing in a golf tournament to raise money for Child Abuse Prevention

Friday, September 26, 2008

If Only

I really do believe that if Hope Creek had an organ like this you MIGHT see it on the weekend. It is a little rough at the start but I promise it gets better after about 20 seconds or so
Enjoy

Monday, September 22, 2008

weekends in October

I thought I would share our new series for October at Hope Creek with you. We are going to be trying something new this month by doing the same series in youth as we do in the main service. Just with stuff that apply to them as teens. And who knows we might add some stuff back in Kidz Cove as well. I promise this is going to be a don't miss series at the Creek. You can check it out every weekend at 6:00 on Saturday night and 11:00 Sunday morning. And make sure you bring a friend!!!!!

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Weekend Madness

  • Crazy busy busy week at the funeral home this week. Not alot of church work since that took up most of the week
  • Friday was a crazy day as my dad was rushed to the ER with what they thought was a heart attack. Good news is that it is not a heart attack but they are not sure what it was. He has a Doctors appointment on Monday in the A.M.
  • Saturday was another long day at the Funeral Home to the point that I did not even make it to church until the last 15 minutes.
  • Saturday night Doss and I did a concert at the Scared Grounds Coffee House and man in my humble opinion we rocked the place out.
  • This weekend Doss and his crew on the Arts team stepped it up big time and just rocked with some great worship. Doss rocked it with our opening song Chris Brown's "Dreamer"
  • Scott did an awesome job with week 3 of our series eXposed revealing the truth about church
  • Back in Kidz Cove we were into week 3 of Knowledge. Handed out alot of Cove Cash this week and I loved it. Gordo was back this week but watch out Coach is coming to the Cove next week
  • Big Rock rocked my face off. I really love hanging out with those teens. We switched stuff around and met in the large group room back in Kidz Cove and did a stripped down acoustic set for worship. Man it was AWESOME (insert huge guitar rif here)

Monday, September 15, 2008

Cove Cash

I thought I would share with you a new thing that we have started at Hope Creek back in Kidz Cove. And that is the start of Cove Cash. You might be asking yourself what is Cove Cash? Good question. Cove Cash is a reward system for kids that do the things each week in Kidz Cove that we ask them to do. In the Treasure Chest (Our parenting resource center) is a huge treasure chest full of all kids of goodies that kids can choose from when they earn $25 bucks in Cove Cash. Each piece of Cove Cash is worth 5 bucks so to get the 25 bucks the kids must do 5 things. And here are the things we would like for them to do each week


  1. Bring their bible to Kidz Cove
  2. Bring a friend to Kidz Cove
  3. Bring a tithe to give back to the church
  4. Remember the definition for the month's value
  5. Do their God Time Card's and have their parents sign off on it

I thought I would add a photo of Cove Cash as well. Each character back in Kidz Cove will appear in the photo of Cove Cash (not just Gordo)

Weekend Madness

  • So not to stressful of week this week. The Kidz Cove remodel is done so I had no projects this past week.
  • Friday night Laura and I meet some friends of ours for dinner. We went to a Ham and Egg Supper. And boy was it good. I really do think I could eat my weight in Country Ham.
  • Saturday was a chill day for me as I got up late, ate a late breakfast early lunch and hen just laid around on the couch most of the rest of the day. I had huge plans so going an getting everything I need to re-seed my yard, take the dog to get groomed, all kinds of stuff. But NOPE just sat there and watched CSI on Spiked network all day.
  • Saturday we had church and this was our first Saturday back in full swing with leaders and lessons the whole shebang. Great night for us at the Creek.
  • Sunday got up and did it all over again. Scott was not feeling so hot but he was still able to rock our face off with a great 2nd week of our series eXposed. This week he talked about God and Suffering (if god loves us why does bad stuff keep happening).
  • Chris and the rest of the band did and bang up job on some Worship. Great job guys
  • Back in Kidz Cove they got to meet Gordo for the first time. He talked about Temptation, sang some Temptations songs, and how to make the Wise Choice if you were temped.
  • Big Rock just was awesome again this week. I really feel these teens want to learn some and are hungry for God's word right now.
  • Numbers were a little off but more important Energy was through the roof, Sprites are high, Hearts are willing to service, Faces have smiles on them, and new folks are still coming each week. I have not been at Hope Creek long but there is a buzz going on that I have never felt there before. And it feels good
  • Back to work this week writing playbooks and doing all the paper work side of ministry in Kidz Cove

Sunday, September 14, 2008

The new wave of praise and worship

Is this what the new wave of Praise and Worship is going to look like? I don't know but I HOPE NOT !!!!!

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Weekend Madness

  • wow talk about a crazy coupe of days. All week long it was a big push trying to finish up all the remodeling projects by Saturday.
  • Friday a friend if mine come by and binged out the space with some sweet air brushing to the walls.
  • Saturday was an early day as Scott, Doss and myself prepared for a prayer service to help get everyone on board with us and pumped about Sunday's Re-Opening
  • Also because of all the rain on Saturday we had tons of folks that were in the church cleaning every inch of the place.
  • Saturday we also cooked 20 pork shoulders to service on Sunday for of BBQ lunch
  • Sunday was a long long day. Lots of new folks, lots of energy, lots of fun
  • Chris and the worship team rocked mine and everyone else's face off with an awesome worship set. The opening song was Cold Plays Viva la Vida complete with strings and all
  • Scott just plan brought it kicking off our (in house) series eXposed. This week he eXposed the truth about faith
  • Back in Kidz Cove we were rocking and rolling with our kick off for the new year and our new space. Lots and lots of kids and lots of fun.
  • After church we had some award winning BBQ and that is always a plus
  • Little nap before Big Rock
  • Big Rock was rocking hard. Lots of new teens and Scott did a awesome job with our new series Contraband
  • All in all a great great weekend at Hope Creek. Each and every person that calls Hope Creek home should be proud. Can't want to do it again this week

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The Power of Questions

Recently I saw a list of questions that I thought I would share. This is a list of questions to ask your team to make sure you are on the right track.

General Questions:

  • What are we doing that we should stop doing?
  • What are we not doing that we should start doing?
  • Who is doing something we need to learn from?
  • What are we doing that has gotten stale?
  • What area of ministry is under-resourced?
  • Where have we experienced inappropriate spending drift? Who is going to help cut expenses and when will it be done?
  • Are we avoiding any problem issues?
  • What are our blind spots?
  • What ministries are struggling? What changes are we making to them in the next 30 days?
  • What do we have to celebrate?

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Only in Durham

I am sure many of you have heard about this, but it is so funny I had to share. Saturday was the kick off for college football here in the triangle. And in attempt to kick it off in style a major mix up happened. The man flying in to the stadium jumped into the wrong place. He should have been 8 miles down the road in Chapel Hill at UNC not in Durham at Duke. Way to go guy I am sure you are going to make Sports Center. But hey nice landing