Stevens Creek Grovetown

I spent the first part of my day with Kevin, Jeff and Wes at Grovetown High School. It really got me amped up about what God is getting ready to do out there. What an opportunity God has given us. God is truly doing even greater things than we imagined at Stevens Creek. Get ready for launch on September 13th.

I Love My Church part 2

Today was another incredible day at the Creek. I love seeing people engage in worship to our creator. As many of you know we are in a series called “I Love My Church”. It has been awesome! Many of you have written your comments at stevenscreek.net and I have so enjoyed reading them. One of my favorites is from a guy named Jake.

MAY 14 
I have always struggled with faith. It was never introduced to me properly and I have shied away from it for many years. My wife has never given up on me and I started going to church in Ohio 2 years ago. I enjoyed the pastor as he was a fantastic speaker and he always found a way like Dave Willis to relate topics in a way that applied to my life. We moved to Georgia in the last year for my new job and we tried out the Creek. This church doesn’t\'t force anything on me like others have in the past, and I am able to come to Christ in my own way. There is guidance and support at every turn. Not to mention the band, sweet baby Jesus, I love that band. I cry every single Sunday listening to the music. Todd rocks out and April can flat out knock you down with those golden pipes. I am lifted up and I’ve learned to not only make room in my heart for Christ, but to empty myself so I can be saturated. Let Him work through me, not the other way around :) I love my church!

-JAKE

I just thought that was awesome…. “Not to mention the band, sweet baby Jesus, I love that band”. HILARIOUS!

The service today kicked of with an 80’s flashback with Danny singing a little Huey Lewis and the News, Power of Love. People loved it! Gary ripped the solo on that song. The set list for worship was:

Salvation is Here…..Lincoln Brewster

You Saved Me…….Gary Baxter

‘Til I See You……...Hillsong

Saviour King……….Hillsong

Dave did a fine job as usual. I bet you didn’t know he has pneumonia. He is a machine! Well, I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day. Make sure you take some time to remember those who have died so that we have freedom. We are blessed!

Baptism Tonight at 7

Tonight we will be baptizing 51 people. Every time we think we have a final count we get a call from someone else wanting to get dunked. This will be the largest baptism we have ever had at the Creek. How Awesome is that! This is what our church is all about. Seeing people who are away from God find hope in Christ. Don’t miss tonight! This is when we celebrate as a church what God is doing. We don’t need to take this for granted, it’s not happening everywhere. See you tonight at 7.

I Love My Church!

I wrote in my last post that I was working with the Langley Church of God's worship team over the weekend. While they had some great people there, it really reminded me why I love the Creek so much. I love my church.

Speaking of the Creek, we had an awesome day today. We had great crowds and the energy was through the roof! Jordan started off with a Remedy Drive song called "Something Made To Last". After that we had an Around the Creek video to give us the 411 on what's going on. Great job on that Wes and Christine. Then we had the Dance.......so fun! The dance team did a jam up job and the costumes were of the chain.

The congregational worship set list was: O Happy Day - My Glorious - The Stand

I thought it went really well. Band sounded great!

Marty did an awesome job reminding us what Stevens Creek is all about. At the end of the message I sang a Tenth Avenue North song called "Love Is Here". We put a baptism video with it that really brought an emotional touch to the service. Great job an the video Brennan. I could watch people being baptized all day.

Well I'm looking forward to another busy week around the Creek! I have the best job in the world!

Langley Church Of God

I have the opportunity to work with the Langley Cog's Worship team tomorrow morning. Working with other team's really gets me amped up. I will be working with their choir, worship team and band. As you can imagine, It's going to be a good bit different from the Creek. For example, in their band they have a flute and a tuba. Not really the instrumentation we use at the Creek, but I'm always up for a challenge. On Sunday night me and a few guys from the band will go and join with the worship team from Langley for their Sunday night service. Should be fun.....I'll keep you posted.

Mother's Day

I hope all the mom's out there had a wonderful Mother's Day. It was a great day at the Creek! Started with baby dedications which always throw a little wrench in the service. There is just no easy way to do them, especially when you have 10-12 you are trying to dedicate. It worked though and baby's are dedicated and I think most momma's are happy.

The singing portion of worship was powerful! The set list was, Sing Sing Sing, Everlasting God and Desert Song. During Everlasting God I read Isaiah 40 to encourage all of us to put our hope and trust in God who will never grow tired or weary. It was a good moment. I really felt like people were connecting especially in the first service. First service peeps, you guys ROCK! After that April and Melissa lead the Desert Song and it was awesome as usual. April prayed a prayer after the song that was amazing and so appropriate for the day. I love that woman!

Then Margie was back on stage for the first time in a long time presenting a monologue that I think all mothers in the place could relate to. She did a jam up job. After the sketch Marty came up and presented a very practical message on how we can honor our mom's. He did a great job. Speaking on Mother's Day is not his favorite thing to do.

At the end of the service we decided to do an old Rod Stewert song, Have I Told You Lately. We put it with some video of people telling there mom's how much they love them and how much they mean to them. It was a sweet moment in the service. Great job Wes! I was singing the song so I got to see all the ladies crying and that let me know that it was a hit. If you can get mom's to cry on mothers day, all will be well in the world. You can watch the service @stevenscreek.net.

Well now it's on to next week. Starting a new series called I Love My Church! It's going to be Awesome!

Lee Singers @ the Creek

Yesterday was another great day at the Creek. We started a new series called Gifted and had the Lees Singers in from Lee University to sing. The Lee Singers were great! I was so proud of them. My friend Brad took over as director last year and has done an incredible job bringing energy and excellence back to this group. Well Done Bradley! Two of the Singers were our very own Wes and Paige Lutes. They are so awesome. I also felt a little old because one of the girls in the group was mine and April's flower girl in our wedding. Time is tickin away. 

We had friend day last week and had a record non holiday attendance record of 1648. So I was interested to see what our attendance was going to be yesterday. We had 1500 on the nose. I will take that any day. Last year this time we were running about 1100. God is really up to something and I'm so excited to be a part of it. Keep up the work all you Creekers. God is using you! 

To top it all off my Bucs beat the Vikings yesterday to go to 7-3..   SWEET!