wow.
yeah, just… wow.
what a weekend. eleven straight services at the perrysburg campus, where i directed and ran switchers. three services out at our whitehouse campus, for a total of fourteen services in three days. it was a marathon to be sure, but oh so incredibly worth it.
first, the numbers…
i really believe a live remote broadcast from the local cbs affliate in town helped our attendance quite a bit. the total attendance (every man woman and child who was not volunteering or on staff) for the entire weekend at both campuses was 16,464. this absolutely shattered our wildest dreams, and previous record attendance set at last years christmas, which was 13,300. our 4:00pm service on monday the 24th was by far and away our best-ever attended single service, with a total attendance of 2,300… in a 1,400 seat auditorium! we had every single space in the church that was set aside for overlow; the chapel, south atrium, classroom 201… filled with people, and even a room that wasn’t meant for overflow, the jr. high ministry room had people in it.
the biggest number of the weekend though, is 928. 928 people stood up at the end of the service, acknowledging a commitment to christ following a salvation prayer led by our senior pastor lee powell. that’s 928 reasons to believe that all the stress, anxiety, and crap that’s been going on for the last month leading up to this was absolutely and one hundred percent completely worth it. i am absolutely in awe of what god has done, and is continuing to do through a bunch of broken and silly people here at cedarcreek, including myself.
a very special thanks to trent austin and the music team down at lifechurch.tv, who graciously helped us cover a couple of songs they did for their christmas service last year. we changed up christmas, which appeared to be a cardinal sin at cedarcreek in the months leading up to it, but i think the overwhelming majority were very much in favor of the new package.
the band was amazing, the teaching was amazing, the volunteers were all amazing, and i may be biased, but my live video team did an amazing job and it was such an honor serving with them for three days.
now, i couldn’t do this post without including some serious media, so here you go. a few pictures (all of which can be found on my flickr page), and a video of our performance of little drummer boy. enjoy!
