Woohoo!!! Broke our record this AM!

Sherri · #1 04-08-2007, 06:24 PM

We had 818 in the house this morning! That's counting by name, not head counts. We were so excited, because God has been so good to us here!! These people are AMAZING and I'm so thankful to the Lord for sending us here. This morning, a man in his 30's was handing out bulletins at the sanctuary door and I asked him, "Joe, a year ago, would you have ever thought you'd be standing in church and doing ANYTHING??" He's one of our miracles from last year, whose life was just totally turned upside down by God! I love it!

Margies3 · #2 04-08-2007, 06:26 PM

Sherri,
that is tremendously great news!! Praise God for every soul that has been touched through the ministry you folks are doing.

rgcraig · #3 04-08-2007, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

We had 818 in the house this morning! That's counting by name, not head counts. We were so excited, because God has been so good to us here!! These people are AMAZING and I'm so thankful to the Lord for sending us here. This morning, a man in his 30's was handing out bulletins at the sanctuary door and I asked him, "Joe, a year ago, would you have ever thought you'd be standing in church and doing ANYTHING??" He's one of our miracles from last year, whose life was just totally turned upside down by God! I love it!

Sherri that's awesome!

Deacon said we had the second highest Easter this morning since he's been there - it was good!

Sherri · #4 04-08-2007, 06:45 PM

Oh I forgot, we also baptized a deaf teenage boy this morning. He and his family came for months before I knew he was deaf because he's such a good lip reader. What a sweet teen!

CC1 · #5 04-08-2007, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Oh I forgot, we also baptized a deaf teenage boy this morning. He and his family came for months before I knew he was deaf because he's such a good lip reader. What a sweet teen!

Now that you know he is deaf you will know to talk really, really loud around him!!

Sherri · #6 04-08-2007, 07:07 PM

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Now that you know he is deaf you will know to talk really, really loud around him!!

I know!! I said something to Zac at dinner today about Aaron being deaf and he's in the youth group with him and didn't even know it. He just said that he thought he always talked really loud. Ha!

Margies3 · #7 04-08-2007, 07:13 PM

We had a new family come into service today. They have a son who is obviously Down's Syndrome. He was carrying a vase full of silk roses, so I commented that they sure were pretty flowers. the mom just kind of smirked as she said to me, "We should have let him get attached to a blankie. It would have been alot easier to drag around with him."

That was my chuckle for the day. Too cute!

tamor · #8 04-08-2007, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Sherri

Oh I forgot, we also baptized a deaf teenage boy this morning. He and his family came for months before I knew he was deaf because he's such a good lip reader. What a sweet teen!

Who is he Sherri? Do they come to first service or second? Have I met them?

818 is amazing!! I knew first service was pretty full. Paul said that The Edge was pretty full this morning. How was the second service in the sanctuary?

Sherri · #9 04-08-2007, 08:37 PM

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Who is he Sherri? Do they come to first service or second? Have I met them?

818 is amazing!! I knew first service was pretty full. Paul said that The Edge was pretty full this morning. How was the second service in the sanctuary?

Actually not as bad as I thought it would be; several switched to the early service at Eddies request. We had about 125 more in the first service than nonrmal. Yes, 818 is amazing for only being in town for 5-1/2 years, huh? God is good!

The boy is Aaron Burnett. They live in Lexington. He has red hair and usually sits on the front or second row (in the other middle section from where you are).

CC1 · #10 04-08-2007, 06:48 PM

Great report Sherri. I am really aggravated at my church. It is crazy for us not to have a third service added for Easter since on normal Sunday's we are completely full and a bazillion people visit CC for Easter.

We got to church about fifteen minutes before the second service time and they had already closed the main floor and balcony and were directing people to the overflow locations.

We watched the service on a big screen along with about 300-400 other people in the Wallace Chapel. I understand that the Martha Scott room was full aso.

There is no telling how many people were turned away. It has been this way for several years now so it is not like this is a big shock. They do have a 6:15 am outside sunrise service at the graveyard but since it was about 20 degrees this morning only about a hundred folks showed up for that.

To be blessed with so many visitors and not acccomodate them better is beyond me.