New vehicle

We are slowly saying goodbye to the days of our youth. Julia and I purchased our first real grown-up vehicle last Saturday. It is a 2005 Ford Freestyle. It has 3 rows of seats and can seat up to 7 people. It can get up to 30 miles to the gallon on the highway too.

It was either that or a 2008 corvette. Had to flip a coin, but ended up going with the Freestyle.

Bye bye sports cars and 4 wheel drive trucks...hello station waggons and mini-vans.

Or in this case a vanaggon...thanks for the new term Jimmy.

Commercial Update!

Our Church commercial is set to air a week from Saturday. It will be on the air in the Clinton/Elk City market every Saturday night 2 to 3 times on TNT.

Please be in prayer for us as we learn to use this commercial as a tool to invite people to our church and a way to lead people to Christ.

2 Milestones to speak of...

Two of the last three Sundays (March 23rd and March 30th) have been somewhat of milestones for myself and the church here in Clinton.

On the 23rd (Easter Sunday) we had 67 people in attendance, which set an attendance record for a Sunday morning service. It was great, and somewhere between 15-20 were first time guests.

Then on March 30th (the next Sunday) I turned 30 years old. That is just crazy to me. I mean just yesterday I was trying to somehow survive my first year of college, and then boom...12 years passed.

Anyways, I'm not sure if it is all the excitement from the last couple of weeks, or just my old age getting to me, but I am tired. We'll blame it on all the excitement for now.

Advertising your church.

So we've decided to do a commercial for our church. I am excited and nervous about this all at the same time. I know that the commercial will get our name out there and will hopefully get people interested in knowing more about us, but I also know that a commercial is pointless without our prayers and efforts. Commitment is a big thing. I try and push myself to maintain or even increase my commitment level, but I know that I can't be the only one committed to our cause. I have confidence in our church to be committed, I just tend to get impatient when things don't happen how or when I expect them too.

This commercial is a big financial step for us, but I pray that it is a big commitment step for us too.

It finally happened!

After 6 plus months on the market we finally received our first offer for our house in Norman. Nothing is set yet because we had to counter, and it may not work out in the end, but an offer is better than no offer. I'm not planning how to spend our newly freed up money just yet, but I will if this thing becomes official. Prayers would be appreciated.

What's happening in Clinton???

Update time. Let's see.

The few weeks since Christmas have been good ones for our church and for Julia and I. They have been tough ones too though.

1. Got back to our normal routines after a week (week and a half for Julia) in Ohio, and a weekend in Duncan.

2. Began planning for the 2008 year for the church.

3. Had our 1st annual planning meeting as a church and we made the following decisions.

a. Begin new Sunday Night Home groups every 1st Sunday of the month.

b. Update our youth program (jr and sr. high) to be more beneficial for our teens.

c. Scheduled four "Super Sundays" as attendance push Sundays.

d. Approved mass advertisment for these "Super Sundays"
(ie. radio, postcards, newspaper, etc.)
e. Made commitment to upkeep of website.

f. Made commitment to step up our efforts to invite people to church and ordered
buisness cards as tools to help invite and inform people.

g. Made decision to incorporate praise and worship choruses with the hymns durring our
Sunday morning service.

4. Julia and I began planning for a trip to Orlando in March with her family.

5. Julia began looking for a new job.

All in all hectic, fun, crazy, exciting, sad, happy...pretty normal.

Giving this the old college try.

Since I haven't really kept up with my blog too well, I am going to try and start a new commitment to blogging. We'll see how it works out.