Sunday Recap 06-14-09

-Seems like the night before service I was tossing and turning and praying for much of the night. Honestly at around 4am I had a lot of concern going into Sunday. A lot of change in my life taking place right now and still adjusting. But I maintained my position in prayer and wasn't going to allow anything to stop a great day.

-Got to service and I was pumped. Finalizing our message series "Moving Forward", trying some new technical elements, new band on stage, oh yeah and a bbq afterward, can it get any better? You better believe it...

- LifeGroups begin: New folks showing up to journaling class almost an hour before service starts. enerGY, enRGY, ENERY

- And the countdown begins t-30 till service starts, the lights are set, the sound is getting prepped and my heart can't wait to preach. Troy Lepisi has his RUN DMC glasses on. Amanda Mikkelsen and Big Roob are getting ready to lead the team into worship.

- The team prays in the back, we focus on one word. A word that is actually a title from Jake Hamiltons latest CD. The word is "Marked". Our prayer is that people would leave marked by God today and on their way to the mark of their God given destiny.

-Ready, set, go it's 11:17am time for service: Newest addition to CWC Milpitas and the CWC Hawaii team Rev. Julie Grimes opens service for her very first time and definitely not her last. Great job, great intensity.

-Missed a portion of worship. I walked across the way to pick up some Indian food with my buddy Sumant for our BBQ after. That's right Indian Food. Every week I get to preach, Latinos, Whites, Islanders, Asians and Indians. "All races, All Generations, Serving one God"

- My mouth drops for a minute as I walk back into service. Much bigger crowd then last week. Santz opens the sermon, recaps how far we have come the previous weeks. We open with a question via a Txt message poll. As the figures start tallying right before our eyes, people start gasping. (pretty cool). Todays message "Chase the Lion" from 2 Samuel 23:20. When your pursuing a God given destiny you will have to come up against a lion that roars fear, uncertainty, failure, past...Lock eyes with your lion, chase it and take it out.

- Great service, great response, most of all people came to know Jesus as their saviour.

-BBQ time. Actually could smell the smoke during final prayer. I'll admit it, my mind wandered for a split second. Wow Jesse and Troy and Nelson got everything ready to go. I look out and see an awesome community being built. Can't help but smile because of the culture God is building at CWC Milpitas is incredible.

-Almost forgot to mention "I PREACHED IN CONVERSE ON A SUNDAY" Man it was comfortable, wish I could do that every week.

HUGE Momentum at CWC Milpitas right now. I have a convincing feeling, we haven't seen anything yet. BACK to BACK BIG Days coming up. New Message Series "The Blueprint" launches next week. We're also Getting ready to make some big announcements soon toward the building of our community.