I just wanted to send a shout out to this week's R2C2 Freaks - our Parking Team and Greeting Team!!! I have had people tell me all week about how awesome the greeting and parking went this weekend. Jamie Almond (Parking) and Tami Sherrill (Hospitality)are great leaders. Your work, along with your teams, created the buzz around the church before the services ever even began. Take a bow gang - you've created quite a buzz!

Hey ya'll!

Just wanted to give ya'll an update on what's going on at R2C2. Here's the bullet list. It's really amazing!

-We are baptizing about 11 people this Sunday. THAT IS HUGE! If there was nothing else to say that would truly be enough…

-This is our last Sunday at Rocky River Elementary School. We make our BIG transition to Pitts School Road Elementary on August 26. CAN HARDLY WAIT!

-To date, we have purchased about $28,000 in new sound gear and equipment – badly needed upgrades. We’ll be spending about $4,000 more before it’s over with.

-We have a graphic designed working on all new signs and banners for the school. You guys are going to freak out over the look of things and the ministry upgrades we’re making.

-We had someone donate an equipment trailer to the church today! That’s right, I said they “donated” it! Those kinds of things happen when people have caught the vision of what we’re doing at R2C2. THANKS! Now we have a way to haul all of our near gear as well as the old gear.

-Be on the lookout for a new venture coming your way called Rocky River Graphics. I’ll tell you more about that later…

-On Wednesday we’ll be doing a “dry run” at Pitts to check out equipment and work through our new setup strategy. Very excited about that.

-On September 16 we will kick off our first LifeTalk series in the new school. It’s called “Baggage” and I think it will be one of the most meaningful service series we’ve ever done at R2C2.

-I am wanting to do an outdoor service and concert somewhere in uptown Concord where we serve free food, preach a message and then have a baptism all in one. What would that look like? Does anyone have the energy and vision to help plan something like that?

-Did I mention that someone just gave us another trailer today! Dang! We have quite an arsenal now – three trailers!

-OUR PEOPLE ARE OUR GREATEST ASSET AT ROCKY RIVER COMMUNITY CHURCH. I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW BIG OUR PEOPLE ARE STEPPING UP TO HELP MAKE THIS TRANSITION HAPPEN! THANK YOU GANG – SO MUCH – FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. THANK YOU!

God is great!

I stole this from my buddy Tony McCollum's blog (www.tonymccollum.com). I agree with Tony that it is very inspiring. My uncle Larry says that our world - and generation - is desperate need of inspiration. I agree. Check it out! Thanks Tony.