We had our first weekly service today.  I am not sure what the official count was due to the fact that I am not sure anybody officially counted.  All I know is that Pat and I both agreed that we have never had so much fun.  This is such an exciting adventure.  It is just out and out thrilling to put in all the the time and energy and to see people showing up.   We had our fist person indicate that they had been saved and 3 others indicated they had rededicated their lives to Christ.

God continues to bring us some great families who share our vision.  We are just in awe of the team that God has given us and thier desire to do whatever it takes to reach others.

This is really the first time in my life, that I will be standing before a group of people every Sunday in order to share with them how much God loves them.

I am reading a book by Mark Batterson titled Wild Goose Chase.  It seems the Celtic Christians refered to the Holy Spirit as the Wild Goose simply implying that following God was an unpredictable adventure.  Here is an exert from the book:

"I'm not convinced that your date of death is the date carved on your tombstone.  Most people die long before that.  We start dying when we have nothing to live for.  And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for.  Ironically, discovering something worth dying for is what makes life worth living."