I can’t believe that we’ve already had four worship services in the Ellijay Elementary School! Honestly, we expected there to be a BUNCH of weird kinks that we’d have to work out. While we definitely have to “grow into” a few things, I have been amazed at how smooth the transition has been!
I have to give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to our teams, because that have really gone the extra mile to iron out any wrinkles BEFORE they had the chance to pop up! Of course, our Logistics team is thrilled that they don’t have to be on at the theater late on Saturdays… And they’re doing a great job getting everything set into place early on Sundays. Our Hospitality team makes everything warm and welcoming. Our CHILDREN’S MINISTRY team are just plain knocking it out of the park with GREAT environments for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary school kids every weekend. Get this… We’ve seen our children’s ministry EXPLODE from an average of THREE kids in preschool & nursery to over 40 kids in just four weeks! WOW!
Here are just a few observations that I’ve noticed in the past four weeks:
- We’ve had over FIFTY first-time visitors since our big move! If you’re one of them, thanks for visiting!
- We’ve seen 12 people turn their lives over to Christ for the first time! Praise God!
- Kidmo is a LOT more fun than I thought it would be! I sneak in there sometimes during worship in big church.
- Everything is WAY spread out now… I can’t just leave my notebook lying around somewhere or I will NEVER find it in time for the message!
- There are LOTS more people in the room now!
- We have a “confidence monitor” on the back wall now. It has the same image as the screens in front. It doesn’t instill me with confidence. Why is that?
- ONE service is easy.
- ONE service allows us to get everyone together
- ONE service gets us to lunch quicker, too!
- Ken Neybert is an encouragement BEAST. Thanks for lifting me up, dude.
- Green signs everywhere!!!!!
If you haven’t joined us yet on a Sunday morning since we’ve moved, you really should… We are the SAME church that we were in the movie theater, but there are some very different dynamics going on now, and I love it!