Loud & Clear

mother’s day dilemma

So I’m trying to brainstorm what we could do for Mother’s Day this year to draw in the community. In the past we’ve done Free Mother’s Day Photo’s, which I think has turned out great. However, because of our budget cutbacks this year, my department can’t afford to go with paid professionals like we did last year. I have some feelers out to see if we could pull it off with some volunteers but is there something else we could do?

I need some ideas. What could we do that would be a draw to the mom’s in our community to bring their families on Mother’s Day? Have any creative ideas on how to let them know about it? Chime in and help shape one of our big days of the year.

Easter video

Paul worked up a pretty cool video giving a couple shots of the Good Friday service with some behind the scenes and actual footage of our Easter Services. I love the shots of people going forward. Check it here out on Paul’s Blog.

Easter at Clovis Hills

Well, Easter was pretty amazing at Clovis Hills. I felt like everyone was at the top of their game. This is what we are called to do and wow, did God move. If you didn’t catch the theme this Easter, here’s the front of the invite cards we created for folks to give to their friends.

We put luggage tags in every program. At the end of the service, we encouraged people committing their lives to Christ for the first time or those returning to Christ after a long absense to write their name on the tag and bring it down to the front where our Prayer Team waited. There, they exchanged their baggage tag with their name with a tag that had “FORGIVEN MARCH 23, 2008″ printed on it.

It was amazing watching people come forward. I know of two families who had adult children accept God’s forgiveness and start fresh.

The Easter dinner with turkey and homemade biscuits that followed with Jen’s family were good, but not as good as watching God work.

Good Friday service

What a day! I’ve been working like crazy on the staff blogs. I can’t wait til they go live. I really hope this is a great way to communicate with you guys and gives you an inside look at how we are as staff and all the things we are crazy passionate about.

Kimberly MacNeill, Paul Haugen, and Jen Strong have been buzzing in and out of the office all day setting up for our Good Friday Service. This should be a really awesome service, and very different from our usual thing. After some extended worship, Pastor Steve will speak for a bit and then everyone will be released to go to stations where we will confess our sins (black pens on black paper I heard earlier this week, though might have evolved by this point) and then serve ourselves the Lord’s Supper. It should be really cool to watch families take Communion together as a unit.

Which reminds me, I’m late! See you over there.

getting ready for Easter

It’s a big week of preparation around here at the office. Those of us that are here that is. We have staff in Mexico on a mission trip. Others are on vacation since it is Spring Break. The rest of us however, are getting ready for the weekend.

Worship Practice is tonight. I’m only on two songs, but I’m at the end of the rehearsal so it’s going to be a late night.

We release a new program shell this weekend also. This one is going to take us all the way through the summer. I dig it. It’s nice and clean.

If you listen to Alice or Big Country, you might hear our radio spot. Or you can listen to it here: Easter 08 Radio Promo