What a Weekend!

Every Thursday is a day in which I really start getting excited about the weekend. So as I think about the next few days I can’t help but get pumped up for the following reasons:

This weekend is the Lititz Christian School (LCS) Spring Musical. This year they are performing the show, Seussical, a correlation of many wonderful stories by Dr Seuss. There are many amazing aspects about Lititz Christian School, which is a ministry of Grace Church, but in my opinion, one of their “bread and butter” elements is their Fine Arts Department anchored each year by the Fall Play and the Spring Musical. It is always worth seeing! And this year’s set is just absolutely second to none. But the part of this year’s event that has me most excited is that my son will be playing the part of Horton the Elephant. Jonathan is a Senior and this will be his last stage performance at LCS. I am a bit biased but he really has some natural talent and is simply amazing on the stage. I can’t wait to see the show. In fact, Laura and I will be attending all 3 performances (Thursday night; Friday night; and Saturday afternoon).

March Madness kicks off this weekend! That is always exciting. Friday night about 9:30pm my Ohio State Buckeye’s Men’s Basketball Team (#2 seed) goes up against UC Santa Barbara. Then on Saturday afternoon the Lady Flames Basketball Team of Liberty University (where I graduated in 1987), who is a #13 seed, will face the 4th seeded Wildcats of Kentucky. Let the dancing begin!

And then there is the crown jewel of every weekend – SUNDAY – and there is no better way to spend a Sunday then right here at Grace Church. I live for Sundays, I really do! It isn’t easy preaching three times each Sunday. In fact, one pastor who also preaches three services on Sunday mornings recently told me that preaching each Sunday was like giving birth to triplets and then waking up Monday morning to find you’re pregnant again with more triplets. In a way, that’s right – but I wouldn’t want to spend Sundays any other way. This Sunday at Grace we continue our Foundations series as part of our VISION MONTH. We also will have the thrill of seeing several people publicly confess their faith in Jesus through water baptism. How cool!

And then all weekend long I get to continue to drive around and see our FACE YOUR FEARS signs all over the place. And God is really using these simple signs. In the first week that they were up we got some 3,000 unique visitors to our special http://www.6fears.net/ website. And not just that. As a result of the signs hits to our church website doubled last week and hits to my blog was up over 60%. In fact, last Sunday the live stream of our 10am worship service at Grace tripled with 277 unique visitors. If you figure 1.5 to 2 people watching per computer that is somewhere in between 415 and 554 people watching our service live on the web. We even had one internet viewer from Delaware ask us to mail them a yard sign so they can advertise the internet angle of our FACE YORU FEARS series which begins Easter Weekend.

And finally, this weekend is exciting because it begins the countdown to next weekend which will feature our annual Easter Helicopter Egg Drop as we anticipate over 5,000 people on our campus for this special holiday event. So, let the weekend begin! It’s going to be awesome all the way around!