Update

We have had 2 great Sunday's in a row here at the Springs. We are seeing alot of new faces and reconnecting with some friends. This Sunday we began to promote our Breaking the 100 barrier for April 17th, 2011. We are using the next 10 weeks to lay the ground work for what it will take to have a 100 people in attendance for worship on a Sunday morning.

I am very excited about how people are believing God for great things for our church. We are going to concentrate on the children's ministry (nursery)
and student ministry. We are going to focus on our worship service and our follow up execution.

The foundation for this goal is not the number but the people. We are looking for life change. We are praying for the transformation of lives by the power of God.

Great Day

We had our highest attendence since I have been at living Springs this Sunday. The worship was great and the passion of the people was evident.
We began some fundraisers to help a young missionary get to Australia and we heard a good testimony from him as well. God is good.

God is doing some great things in the lives of His people. God is doing some great things in the life of His Church. This week our message was "The Greatness of God".

Living Springs Church UPDATE

2011 has already been a great year in the making. I can see God is working in the lives of people and that is what really counts. I have made EXECUTION the key word in my life for 2011. I am convince that execution is what i need to key in on for the progress of life and ministry.

I have 3 areas that I will be focusing on for 2011 for living Springs Church

1. Good First Impressions/ doing our best to let people know we care for them enough to have them in mind when they take there time to be our guests.

2. Good Delievery of our message/ Making sure that we have done everything we can to prepare our greeters, teachers, preachers and workers in general to deliever the right message to all who take there time to be our quest.

3. Good follow-up of our quests and members/ taking the right amount of time to let those who have taken the time to be our quest that we are there to serve them in away we can. To not forget the needs of those who are a part of the church family.

I am really looking forward to a great year of making a difference in peoples lives.

Helping fill heaven in 2011

In 2011 we are going to do all we can to reach as many people with God News of the Jesus Christ. We want to "Help Fill Heaven in 2011". 2.7 billion people haven't even heard the story of Jesus. San Antonio is a great mission field and we must let as many people know about what Jesus came to do.

Several thoughts:

We must embrace eternity. If we live our lives in view of eternity we will be reminded of the urgency to help other find Christ.

We must reach those closest to us. We need to be those strong testimonies that will demontrate the power of transformation

We must be bold in our outreach events and services. Peoples souls hang in the balance and we must do all we can to present a clear message.

We must pray as if everything depends on God and work as if everything depends upon us.

Today is the day of Salvation!

Weekly Reflections

I am very excited about what God is doing at Living Springs Church. I like how Rick Warren puts it "You always reap what you sow...You reap more than you sow...You reap in a different season than you sow...Plant good seeds".We had a very good service this past Sunday. We saw alot of new faces and we had a great attendance and response. I am looking forward to finishing out 2010 with a blast and starting 2011 with great excitement about what God is doing and will be doing.

The Fellowship 66 youth gathering is going great under the leadership of youth pastor Jessica Rodriquez. They are planning some great stuff for the next few months.

I will be preaching about the Biblical subject of thankfulness this Sunday at 11pm. We will have a fellowship meal after this Sunday's service and everyone is invited.

Reflections from this past Week-end

I attended the Fall Festival of The Exchange Church. They had a 2 great bands playing praise and worship and they had games, food and stuff for the kids. From my vantage point they had a great trurn out and they had people from the community in the crowd.

Fellowship 66 sponsored this years Harvest fest on Holloween night. Living Springs Church, The Exchange Church, The Connection Church(formally Dominion CC) and Southwest Community Church were all involved in this out reach and we had a great time of fellowship and ministry.

Sunday morning at Living Springs was really good. We had a good attendance and a great spirit of joy as we worshiped and preached Gods Word. I showed a video clip off the internet without viewing it completely and at the very end of the clip the guy said a curse word. I'm thankful everybody was a good sport about it. I must remember to view all content completely before showing it.

Random Items

The Hereafter
This Sunday I will be teaching on "The Hereafter". I am dealing with this subject for 2 reason. First because it is Holloween and people are thinking about death and second because I saw the movie that came out this week "The Hereafter" with Matt Damon and it is obvious that people have questions about it. I am going to use the Bible to explain what happens after we die.
Harvest Fest
We will have our anual Harvest Fest this Sunday starting at 6pm. The purpose of this festival is to be light on a day when people are thinking about dark things. It is an event to present the gospel to people period with no apologies. We will have food, candy, games, a drama presentation and live Christian Music.
The Kidz Zone
We need to upgrade our children's ministry and so we are going to create a kidz Zone that will be an area to reach children for Christ. Pray for us. We need more workers and more money to make it happen. Kids are important and we need to focus our attention on them.