a whole lot of amazing!!!!!

NOTE: this is a long post, but HANG IN THERE. VERY COOL STUFF AHEAD!!!!

first, you guys donated

$2,332

to the compassion global crisis food fund. in just a couple of days. HOLY SMOKES, y’all.

i have to admit…sometimes it’s easy for me to see how big the problem is, and you all gave me so much hope. which isn’t what it was about, but it happened anyway. it was so encouraging to see you care the way you did.

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second, yesterday at cross point was very cool in quite a few ways. we celebrated our volunteers (read more here and here). i have never enjoyed working next to so many people. everyone worked so hard, from setting up and planning, to last minute video tweaks, to doing dishes, cutting cake, and taking out trash.

pete announced four very cool initiatives we are focusing on as a church. (you can read more about the specifics here on his blog).

–we are adding a fourth service. for those of you unfamiliar with the church, we currently lease an auditorium (with pews – it rocks) from a baptist church and space presents challenges, especially with parking.

–we are beginning a third campus (but we don’t know where…or really when…but we’re so excited we just couldn’t wait for the details to share)

-we are partnering with habitat for humanity to build three houses this fall. this is going to take several hundred volunteers and i love seeing the people of cross point serve together!

and…if i can have a favorite, this is mine…

-currently, cross point gives 10% of it’s income straight to missions. we have committed to increase that by 1%, every year, for the next 10 years. so in 2018, we will be giving 20% of our income straight to missions.

pete had a great idea to get other churches on board with this kind of sacrificial and incremental missions giving. we want to see 100 other churches get on board and we think in that ten years, these churches will give over $100,000,000 to missions simply by increasing it by 1% every year.

we realize it’s not all about the money, but where your treasure is, your heart follows. we truly believe this can be a life changing, church changing experience.

if this sounds like something your church would be interested in doing, please shoot me an email at [email protected].

so…yes…it has been an amazing weekend!!!!