A Dream Became Reality

Today, an eleven year old dream of mine became a reality. Today is the day that I pastored the very first church service for our very first church plant. Things went great, we had a lady show up who has never been to our small group, she came from reading our website.

We had 26 people at our first church service, and things went very well. Our singer came down with tonsillitis this week, but she still sang. Talk about a trooper! My sermon title was "Where Are We Going?" and it was based out of Acts Chapter 1:1-11. We saw that God has a purpose for the church and that is
1. To experience a changed life (Acts 1:3)
2. To experience God (Acts 1:4-5)
3 To experience Kingdom Growth (Acts 1:8)

Today I basically shared the vision for the church. It was so cool to see everybody taking notes.

One thing that I really loved about church service today was what happened AFTER the sermon. People didn't want to leave! Everybody stayed and talked with everybody else. Nobody wanted to leave at all. That is a great sign, where people want to stay and socialize and feel like they belong.

So one of my dreams came to fruition today, and oh, was the dream a good one!