It came and it went but it was a blast. We had our first run in with what it's really like to be meeting in the marketplace. We showed up only to have the manager fill us in that the wing the kids usually use was going to be used for a sneap preview of a new movie. So we had a massive line up trying to get into the theatre...the only problem was that they weren't lining up for church! Some of our guys were trying to convince them to check out our "sneak preview". Some of them were actually curious and said that they would check it out in January when we launch every week. We'll see where that goes. It was a little chaotic but it was actually really cool. It showed me how I am used to my little church routine and that when people interrupt our flow I don't like it...and that's messed up because we've got all of these people in our "church"...they just don't know it. And they are the people we are trying to connect with. So after a few minutes of irritation...I dealt with it and moved on. We ended up having our biggest crowd yet and everything went extremely smooth. The band rocked out and our bass player that we got to sub in was sick (that's a good thing for those of you who don't know). Our sound guy, whom we've been paying, offered to help out and train some new sound men which was an answer to prayer. Heck I'll even pay him to do that.
Anyways, now we've got a long haul until our launch on Jan.14. It'll be really nice to be going every week and get some serious momentum rolling. In the meantime we'll just keep moving forward and building relationships with the rad people we've met so far.
Today everyone gave enough money for us to be able to pay off our sound system and buy 100 gas cards to give out on Dec.16 for our Great gas giveaway
On another note, we moved out to Mission on the 1st and we go so blessed. Our "suite" has a massive view of the southwest valley and is huge. It's perfect for us to be able have people over and actually be able to breath. We just can't get over how much we love living here. There's just something about it. Once I get my internet working properly I'll post some more.
