Yesterday afternoon we had our Family Fun Night at Yahoola Park in Dahlonega Georgia. This event has become a highlight for our church. One of the things that I have discovered in my short time at DAG is that the people LOVE to spend time with each other. Seriously the folks at our church love doing life together.
The reality is it's hard making friends. Think about it...with our crazy schedules it becomes more and more difficult to create life long and healthy friendships. If you aren't intentional about making friends it just won't happen. One of my goals at DAG is that we get intentional about creating experiences for people to connect.
For a couple of months we have been anticipation this event because of the long awaited softball rematch between the adults and teenagers. The first time we had our FFN @ Yahoola the teenagers got a brake "cheated":) and beat the adults. It was a crazy game right in the middle of it, it start to pour rain but we kept on playing. So for the last couple of months the teenagers had bragging right but not anymore!!! Last night the adults of DAG were redeemed! After a long and well played game of softball we beat the tar out of the teenagers! The final score was 19 - 18! By the last inning everybody was out for blood:). WE PLAY TO WIN...to honor Jesus of course:)
Here's the thing I love playing softball and I love winning but that reality is that my hope was that people connected. From the looks of it we accomplished our goal that afternoon. Over 60 people showed up and at least half were first time guest! My goal was to remind our people that we are never to busy to invest some time into each other and into the people around us whether we know them or not.
If you are a Pastor and you are not intentionally creating experiences for your people to connect to God and each other start TODAY!
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