Yesterday was unbelievable! We had over 1500 people plus cast and crew attend one of our two services yesterday for Imagine Christmas! 1500! As a reference, last Sunday we had less than 400 in our service.
Let me tell you some of the reasons yesterday was such a success.
- First, God gave our creative team the vision for this months ago. It came from Him, not us.
- Many, many people have been praying for a long time for something like this to happen in our church.
- God gave us the creativity, endurance, passion and determination to see it through.
- Our church got behind this in a BIG way! You guys gave a lot of time, talent and money to make this happen.
- Abs is an absolutely phenomenal visionary and facilitator.
- Carolyn has an incredible multi-media team and she is an extraordinary leader.
- Millie agreed to photograph the production for us. That’s her work at the top of this post. I’ll post more images when we get them.
- There were tons of people who served as ushers, greeters, parking attendants, carolers, children’s workers, stage hands, cleaning crews, talent wranglers, hair and make-up stylists, special effects teams, musicians, singers, dancers, actors, lighting crew, sound crew, set designers, bloggers, seamstresses, cafe teams, intercessors, videographers and more! Over 200 people in all worked in some area of this production. HOLY COW! You guys are ROCK stars!
- ROCKERS invited a LOT of people. Over 2000 invitations, posters, fliers and more were given out.
So what do we have to show for it? That is a good question. Yesterday, 22 people chose to follow after Christ! That means there was a huge party in Heaven yesterday! That’s over 130 people committing to follow Christ this year. That is something to be over the top excited about.
I am so grateful to have a pastor who will let us run with the vision. Even if we run very fast. I am honored to serve alongside the amazing staff at The ROCK. It’s crazy how much we are able to accomplish even though we are laughing so hard we can barely breathe. I am humbled to help lead a bunch of crazy, sold out, passionate ROCKERS who call The ROCK home and who have God’s heart for our city.
Thank you all for making this possible. This next year is going to be unbelievable!
fabulous!