Just got back today from a staff advance. (retreat). Anyways we hammered through a ton of issues and systems and stuff. It was a lot of pressing and focusing, but I feel really good about the results!
We have a great team of people that help Watermark align and function under a corporate banner. It is a high honor and priviledge to serve beside the men and women who volunteer and give their best every week in their life groups and gatherings.
Tomorrow I have surgery. I am very much looking forward to getting it over with and probably should be sleeping instead of typing this.
Our gathering this past Sunday was awesome and we had a great follow up lunch with some people who are wanting more information regarding Watermark. I am going to have a conversation with one gentleman this week who has never read the Bible. He seems really cool and wants to chat about stuff. One of the things we chatted about in the lunch we did was ask why they are connected in to Watermark... It was cool to hear their responses. It was nice to hear things about the teaching and music and all the other things that typically go into a critique of a church experience. BUT - it was cooler to hear how people were seeking God and connecting with others they did not know and felt like they were accepted and that they could understand things. They shared some cool value stuff that came across.
That is totally God working through our core team. In church planting (attempt at a thought here) you can have the greatest leadership team in the world, but you will not see the church become what it can become if there is not a strong core team... WHY? Because they are the church! They live it - they bring Jesus to people - they serve - they are the church.
Well - I am ready to pray and battle the pre-operation anxieties with Scripture and sleep.
Good night and God Bless,
sd
We have a great team of people that help Watermark align and function under a corporate banner. It is a high honor and priviledge to serve beside the men and women who volunteer and give their best every week in their life groups and gatherings.
Tomorrow I have surgery. I am very much looking forward to getting it over with and probably should be sleeping instead of typing this.
Our gathering this past Sunday was awesome and we had a great follow up lunch with some people who are wanting more information regarding Watermark. I am going to have a conversation with one gentleman this week who has never read the Bible. He seems really cool and wants to chat about stuff. One of the things we chatted about in the lunch we did was ask why they are connected in to Watermark... It was cool to hear their responses. It was nice to hear things about the teaching and music and all the other things that typically go into a critique of a church experience. BUT - it was cooler to hear how people were seeking God and connecting with others they did not know and felt like they were accepted and that they could understand things. They shared some cool value stuff that came across.
That is totally God working through our core team. In church planting (attempt at a thought here) you can have the greatest leadership team in the world, but you will not see the church become what it can become if there is not a strong core team... WHY? Because they are the church! They live it - they bring Jesus to people - they serve - they are the church.
Well - I am ready to pray and battle the pre-operation anxieties with Scripture and sleep.
Good night and God Bless,
sd
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