We took our annual staff retreat last week. It is our annual 36 hour team building, vision casting, game playing, laughing a ton, over eating, exercise in sleep deprivation. Michael Fleming and Kraig Kubiceck drove in from Watermark Denver and it was great for them to pick up where they left off and really encouraging [...]
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We are a couple of weeks into the ask we made of our body to finish giving to the new sanctuary. I am proud of the way our leadership has handled the process. Here are a few of the things that haven’t shown up.
No manipulation [...]
The conference was fine and I left with some things to think about but hanging out with these guys made it a really memorable trip. I laughed more in those 3 days than probabbly any other 3 days this year. I was great to reconnect with them all, put our feet up at night and [...]
It is working with ridiculously gifted and funny people like this that makes this place such a blast to work at. Last weekend at the Launch Retreat the young adults had a “Small town Saturday night” party. JP, Brandon, and Steve piled in a Suburban and came up with this promo - my favorite is [...]
What a great weekend at Watermark. Kyle Thompson pegged everyone between the eyes in our North Dallas audience as he talked about, amoung other things, how joy doesn’t come from financial security or a ruthless self discipline which helps you achieve your goals. He shared a great story about hearing a sermon in Goma, Congo [...]
How do you continually remind your congregation that that they need to create seats during the full service at 11:00? Steve Vanderheide sent a quick email last week asking for volunteers for a shoot and this is what we showed on Sunday. I thought is was a really creative was to keep this in front [...]
On July 4th Sam Hodges did a story in the Dallas Morning news about the Two Together Marriage Initiative in Texas. This is a piece of legislation that was passed in an attempt to address the divorce rate in Texas by, among other things, providing premarried education and waiving the state marriage license fee for [...]
So we are in our weekly all staff meeting this morning and a member named Jason is sitting in. Todd looks at Jason and says “Pick a number 1 through 6.” Jason picks 4 and Todd asks him to recite Galations chapter 4 (apparently he had told Todd a few weeks ago that he had memorized the book [...]
Good day today. Todd took a tour through the book of Matthew, the kids continued to learn the 23rd Psalm through a lights out creative program, Braun and Nick didn’t disappoint, 3 people took the whole milk challenge, and the farkle left 2 in the lake this evening and 1 Bill Lisle wearing a bee [...]
There was a flurry of activity today. The kids started their program and were introduced to “Electrolight” who is a super hero in training and talked about Psalm 23 (I am not sure how they fit all that together). The adults had a time of worship and extended time individually to read and pray. Lunch [...]
