Monday Mind Dump

• WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WEEKEND!!!
• I'm a little sore from the softball game last night but it's totally worth it. We had our monthly family fun night at Yahoola Park in Dahlonega and the adults (aka-senior crizitens) BEAT the teenagers 19-18:) more about this later.
• On Friday and Saturday me, my wife, and several people from our church attened the Georgia Assemblies of God annual Church Ministries Conference in Griffin Georgia .
• It was the best church ministries conference I have ever attended!
• One highlight that's worth mentioning is my wife and I got to spend some much needed time with the people from our church. Friday night we had a blast at IHOP. It was so much fun to hear stories and see a side of them that we have not seen yet.
• The second highlight was that I got to sit in a pastoral round table with the Senior Pastor of First Assembly Griffin Randy Valimont and several other high caliber Pastors from around the state. I truely felt like the mule at the Kentucky Derby.
• I'll share more about the conference later this week when I finish downloading everything I took in.
• yesterday was an AMAZING DAY!
• for a while now I have been singing on the worship team but yesterday I sat back and worshipped from the pews.
• Pastor Blake, Chad, and the rest of the worship team did a great job leading us in worship.
• did I really say yesterday was amazing?
• from the moment that I drove on our church campus I knew God was up to something.
• We had several first time guest yesterday.
• On top of that we had a great attendance.
• Yesterday I spoke about Being Strong.
• We looked at the story of Joshua in Joshua 1:1-9. I said that as Joshua stood at the edge of the Jordan and looked across the river into the unknown he had to BE STRONG to inherit the promises of God.
• People responded very well to the message.
• Several people stood up and declared that they were going to BE STRONG as they move forward in life.
• After the message I shared with our church some strategic and exciting opportunities that were in front of us.
• In the next several weeks we are going to start making some much needed repairs and upgrades to our current facilities.
• Everything from a new roof, a new church sign, painting our building, updating our bathrooms, a new website, creating a new kids ministry area, and much more!
• The next several weeks and months are going to be a exciting around DAG!
• DAGer's thank you so much for being faithful in your giving and serving. Because of your prayers and faithfulness we are going to be able to improvement our current facilities and create a place where people can CONNECT TO GOD, BECOME LIKE JESUS, & INFLUENCE THE WORLD!
• another opportunity that I shared with our church was the opportunity to help establish a Spanish Assembly of God church in Dahlonega. Starting soon we will be having a Spanish church meeting in our building on Tuesday nights and Sunday nights. We are partnering with another Spanish church to make this happen.
• For a while now I have been praying about how we could minister to the hispanic community in Dahlonega and then this opportunity presented itself. All I got to say it has Jesus written all over it! I let you know later when they will begin to have services.
• Sorry about the long mind dump but as you can tell it was a very busy weekend.
• God is so faithful I can't wait to see what He does this Wednesday and next Sunday!!!

Monday Mind Dump

• Yesterday was amazing and encouraging!
• I am so excited about what God is doing in our church and our community.
• Once again I am so proud of our worship team! You guys are unbelievable...thank you so much for stepping up and making it happen every Sunday. I couldn't do Sundays without ya'll.
• Yesterday morning when I was driving up to Dahlonega for church Jesus and I were having a moment and I asked if He could encourage me with some guest and guess what happened...We had some first guest!
• THAT'S MY KING!
• on week 3 of my 6 week series. I'm really excited about this series.
• Yesterday I spoke about hitting the mark in a cultural that encourages sloppy living. We should have it on the website by Wednesday.
• I love our partners in ministry at Dahlonega Assembly!
• Even though we are all relearning and establishing new serving structures every Sunday our partners in ministry serve so faithfully.
• Thank you partners for serve with all of your hearts.
• My youth pastor had our students do a crazy game yesterday...it was hilariously!
• I had a board meeting last night...and it was awesome!
• No joke we had a great meeting!
• DAGer's get ready we have some great opportunities coming our way...what opportunities?
• Show up at church on Sunday morning and you'll find out:)
• Some of the folks and I had a think session for GOLD RUSH. I have never experienced GOLD RUSH but I am getting jacked up about this community event.
• I have a very busy weekend coming up.
• Friday night and Saturday all day we will be in Griffin at the Assemblies of God Church Ministries Conference. I am really excited about all the different session that there will be but I am excited about spending some time with some of our leaders.
• Then next Sunday afternoon we have our Family Fun Night at Yahoola Park in Dahlonega.
• It starts at 5pm with the fried chicken and all the side dishes you can think of and then the game that we have all been waiting for...I heard ESPN is going to be there...(jk) the long awaited PAY BACK game.
• It's goin' get crazy so if ya'll are in Dahlonega feel free to come hang out with us eat some good & FREE food and watch the adults stomp the teenagers:)

Monday Mind Dump

• This weekend was crazy but awesome!
• On Saturday morning Casey Graham from ReThink Money came out and did an amazing job teaching some simplistic principles about money and getting out of debt.
• If you or you want to bring someone in to teach on money Casey is the man. We are definitely bringing him back in January or February.
• Sunday morning was stinkin' awesome!
• We had family from out of town come visit this weekend. It was great having them in service.
• Worship was amazing!!!
• You could literally feel the presence of God in the room that morning.
• It was week 2 of my new series. Talked about the WORD of God being our lamp and Jesus the light.
• I challenged our church not to be content with living in the darkness anymore.
• Several people responded to the altar time...I love praying with our folks!
• We started to have full service kids church on Sunday. I heard nothing but great reviews.
• Looking forward to updating our kids area. Praying for some favor with the bank so we can make this happen.
• NGCSU is back in session this week. I praying that we could make some serious impact on the campus.
• We're starting to make plans and preparations for GOLD RUSH in October. If you don't know what GOLD RUSH is I'll blog about it later.
• Looking forward to our Family Fun Night this Sunday. We're meeting at Yahoola Park for a picnic style get together.
• the adults are going to massacre the teenagers in softball this Sunday. You don't want to miss it!

Monday Mind Dump

• We had a great service yesterday.
• Even though we had some hiccups during our worship time the team kept it together. You guys are amazing!
• Started a new 6 week series called Carrying the Torch.With the Olympics starting this week I thought it would help folks retain more or at less remember a little from Sunday messages.
• I'm really jacked up about our new laser printer that I just bought for the church! I am anal about doing everything with excellence and this new print is going to help us raise the standard in our in house material production. WE'RE TAKING IT TO A NEW LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE!!!
• I don't know if you have ever experience an off day but yesterday was my "off" day. Although everything went well at church I just felt that I was off my game....anyway i just wanted to share that transparent moment with ya'll.
• Had a great lunch on Sunday with some of the amazing peps from my church.
• the A/C got fixed over the weekend so it was nice and cool this Sunday...thank God! There's some work that needs to be done still but as long as it's cool I'm good to go.
• I AM SO PROUD OF MY YOUTH PASTOR AND OUR STUDENTS!!! Word of mouth is differently the most effective way to get your friends to church. Our students are so excited about whats happening on Sunday nights that they were on their phones all afternoon trying to get their friends to show up...and it worked. There was at less 10 first time guest that showed up. I was so excited for our kids and Pastor Blake.
• Here's the part that I love most of these kids weren't regular church kids.
• That's what I'm talking about reaching the unchurched.
• Just got a subscription to Powerpointsermons.com! This is a great resource for churches who don't have graphic people yet. check it out at www.powerpointsermons.com.
• Really excited about next Saturday! Casey Grahams from ReThink Money will be doing a one day seminar at our church. more details to come!
• I'm so jacked up about the new school year! We're planning to impact our schools in a HUMASSIVE way!
• I love pastoring our church and community!

Monday Mind Dump

• Yesterday was a great service!
• Attendance was a little low...lots going on this month plus a couple in our church got married yesterday afternoon so everybody's mind was in a different place.
• Laterly though we've seen a rise in teen attendance! I'm pretty jacked up about that!
• Also many of our former students for our last church showed up yesterday. Even one of the parents showed up with them. It was so good to see them. I am so proud of all of them. A couple of them are going to school for full-time ministry! I'm a very proud spiritual daddy!!!
• Once again I am so proud of our worship team. It was a little shakey in the beginning but they pulled it through. Every week I can see the improvement. You guys are amazing!
• Sunday was our second week of "How To Be Rich". I want to give props to Andy Stanley for the title to this series. I totally went in a different direction regarding content put I loved the title. So I borrowed it!:)
• I was so jacked up about all the teenagers on Sunday. When I saw all the teenagers there I sort of tweed the message so it could really impact the students that were there. It's never to early to get a biblical view regarding money.
• I love pastoring DAG!
• Next week I will be ending our series "How To Be Rich". I can't wait til Sunday it's going to be awesome.
• After church I had lunch with our former students. All I got to say is "welcome to Moe's"
• Afterwards I headed to Gainesville for the wedding. My amazing wife played wedding coorinater for the day. I was so proud of my wife!
• Honey you were amazing...thank you so much for jumping in and helping and serving you are my HERO!
• I was so much fun hanging out with our church at the wedding! I think it is so funny how people let loose a little more when they are not at church.
• The wedding was amazing! Matt & Crista I pray that blesses you with many years of joy and love.
• I was so proud of my youth pastor. He performed the ceremony and did an amazing job! You rock Pastor Blake!
• I can't wait to see what Jesus doesn't this week!

Monday Mind Dump: Tuesday EDITION

• Pastor Benny Perez from The Church of South Las Vegas preached at our church on Sunday. It was awesome! His ONE PRAYER for the church was "Lord, make us Servants".
• My wife and son left Sunday morning with my mom and family to Illinois.
• I hate going to church without my family.
• I am totally missing them right now:(
• Attendance was really low on Sunday morning...I was a little sad because the folks that were out on Sunday missed an incredible message about serving.
• Our worship leader and his wife had a baby boy on Saturday morning...congrats you guys!
• Since he's going to be a little busy with his growing family we had to take care of worship on Sunday morning.
• I am so proud of worship team. you guys did an amazing job on Sunday!
• I even played the bass for one of the songs...and then I got a blister.
• AND it still hurts...the things that I do for Jesus:)
• I announced to our church that on July 11th we are going to have a 24 hr. HUNGER & THIRST NIGHT. more about this later.
• Still prayer for a new worship pastor.
• Hung out with some amazing church folks after church for lunch.
• After lunch I met with my pastoral team to catch up.
• Found out on Sunday afternoon the church van broke down. Which sucks because our teenagers were going to camp on Monday morning.
• Pastor Blake and I came up with plan B on Sunday night so our teens were still able to go to camp for the week.
• I'm so excited for our teenagers and my Youth Pastor. They going to have an amazing time! I'm a little jealous.
• I miss going to youth camp...
• Am still missing my family:(
• Sunday night I went to IHOP in Lawrenceville (international house of prayer).
• It was so awesome! worship lasted 1 hr. & 45 mins. it was intense!!!
• Billy Humphrey spoke about the Glory of God. Which is crazy because the Lord has been speaking to me about His GLORY laterly...oh shoot something fixin' to happen.
• I can't wait to see my family on Wednesday night.

Monday Mind Dump

• We had a GREAT service yesterday!
• A lot of new faces in the pews...yea we have pews...don't you know that pews are back in...it's retro!
• The worship team did a great job!
• I was a little sad during worship. It's getting closer to the day when my current worship leader and his family are leaving.
• I'm still believing that God is going to send the right person or people to help us with our worship team. If you're that person you need to read this post.
• I am so proud of our landscape crew. These guys are amazing! Dave and Freddy thank you so much for making our church grounds look amazing!
• Celebrated communion for the first time since we have become the Senior Pastors.
• At first I was going to do it at the end of the service but we did it right after worship. It was awesome!
• I preached a Father's day message.
• It was my first message I on preached on Father's day since I have become a dad.
• My mom was in service on Sunday. It was her first time attending a service at our church.
• Got to admit a little nervous but at the end it was an honor having my mom there.
• The best part of the service was that ONE person accepted Christ! Enlarging the Kingdom of God ONE person at a time!
• After church I performed a Wedding! It was awesome!
• It was my first wedding at the church.
• It caught alot of our regulars off guard but they jumped right in to make the ceremony perfect for the couple.
• That's why I love the people at Dahlonega Assembly. They see a need and jump in and fill it. DAGer's ya'll are freakin' amazing!
• Afterwards my wife and I joined the bride and groom and some friends for lunch at Wylie's Cafe in Dahlonega.
• Oh my gosh...I love Pastoring DAG!

Monday Mind Dump

Yesterday was an awesome day! It was a beautiful morning and I was so pumped to be at church. I love our church! My wife and I are having the time of our lives at DAG. The people are amazing, the future is looking awesome, and I can't wait to see where we are in one year. Here are some highlights from my Sunday.

• finished up our series Extreme Makeover. I had a great time preaching these messages!
• my message was about "moving in LOVE". I spoke about how the world will recognize us by our LOVE for them.
• Our worship lead couldn't sing on Sunday morning so I had to led worship. I had a lot of fun but it was tough preaching after leading worship.
• many of our regulars were out but we had a couple of visiting families with us...very cool.
• had Mexican for lunch.
• after lunch went back to the church to continue painting my office.
• got home around 7pm and hung out with my family. lately I have noticed that anytime I am away from my family I miss them like crazy!
• I watched more Deadliest Catch...I have no idea why I am into this show right now.
• I am loving life right now...

Monday Mind Dump

Yesterday was awesome! It was my first time preaching on a Sunday morning at our new church. Got to be honest I was a little overwhelmed and a little nervous. It was such a surreal moment for my wife and I. One year ago I resigned from our last church with no idea what God was doing now one year later we were standing in our new church as Senior Pastors! Wow!!! Anyway here are some thoughts about our first Sunday as Senior Pastors.

• My wife and I had a rough start in the morning. Just being honest...
• We made up on the way to church...don't act like you never made up on the way to church!
• Started my first sermon series Building onto the Legacy.
• I LOVE our new church!!!
• I LOVE our new church family!!!
• I have an AMAZING STAFF! Pastor Blake thank you for going the extra mile on Saturday.
• Ms. Jeannie thanks for ALL of your hard work you do for me and the church...YOU ROCK!
• I was really nervous preaching my first sermon as a Senior Pastor.
• I was sweating in places I seriously didn't know I could sweat...
• A little bummed out because my son wasn't feeling good.
• My wife looked HOT!
• We had an incredible time during our Sunday night service!!!
• I love praying with a bunch of people that believe that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD!
• We ate at this amazing Mexican Resturant in Dahlonega!
• We met this amazing family during lunch who loves Jesus and our community.
• I love saying "our community" I can't wait to see what God is going to do in Dahlonega Georgia.
• Finally, I challenged my church to read the bible for the next 21 day for 21 minutes a day. I tell you more about this later.