The Gift of a Meal

9.26.2005 — 1 Comment

In the last two days, Jess and I have been treated to two meals by two different families in our church.

Yesterday we were taken out to lunch by the Freemans and tonight at Pizza King, our bill was paid-in-full by the Earle family.

These two acts-of-kindness have really made Jess and I realize how blessed we are to be loved so much by a group of people here in Warsaw!

Thank you, not only to those who treat us to meals – but to those who continue to lift us up in prayer, those who send encouraging notes, and those who take time out of their day to let us know they care!!!

This afternoon I had lunch with three of the youth pastors that were involved in last night’s See You AFTER The Pole event. We had a good time chatting about how exciting things were and such and began the initial brainstorm of another similar event in the future.

Tonight I was at a “District Zone Meeting” that was held at our church. It was good to see a couple of my ministry-peers – Jonathan Light, solo-pastor at Silver Lake Wesleyan (and a faithful stevansheets.com reader, I found out tonight!) and Don Baine, Senior Pastor at New Carlisle Wesleyan Church. It was also funny that Pastor Chuck McCullum (our Assistant District Superintendant) walked in tonight and said, “Stevan Sheets Dot Com” when he first saw me. I haven’t been called that since “the college years” when I was the first one “on the block” to get my own domain name. Back then it was geeky (maybe it still is?) to get your own “dot-com” – now if you don’t have your-own-name.com, you run the risk of having someone else buy it and charge you a couple thousand down the road!

See You AFTER The Pole

See You AFTER The Pole

See You AFTER The Pole

Tonight, 400 500+ students from the Warsaw-area gathered with their peers, youth pastors, and sponsors to worship Jesus Christ – TOGETHER, as ONE body!

It was an incredible thing to witness.

As far as we know, never before in the history of Warsaw, has this sort of thing happened on a United front.

It was a service that had to be experienced to understand.

Warsaw Community’s youth pastor, Scott Greene dreamed the dream, brought it before theNETWORK – our area youth pastors – and the dream came true.

What an event.

What an experience.

I would love to be one of these teens walking the hallways tomorrow at school!

Check out the 53 pictures of the night’s event here.

Authentic Worship

9.25.2005 — 2 Comments

When was the last time you had authentic, lost-yourself-in-the-Lord, worship?

Spoke this morning on II Samuel 6 – the story of King David leading the Ark of the Covenant back into Jerusalem. You remember the story – where he “danced before the LORD in his Fruit of the Looms with all his might”.

It was one of those sermons that I wasn’t REALLY excited about preaching – because of how “touchy” the subject of “worship” is these days.

Both services went very well & my buddy Thomas did an incredible job leading us in song before and after the message.

As I read the scripture this morning, I couldn’t help but chuckle under my breath as I read these words: 6:17 – “They brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it…”

Why did I chuckle?

Because of this video file, that’s why.

No pictures tonight – I actually decided to leave the camera in the car (after we were 3-blocks from the car, that is)

We had a great visit with Jess’ Grandparents tonight before hitting the fair.

At the fair we used our “Fair Money” – money that Jess’ grandparents give us each year to eat some supper and spent some great time visiting with the Bluffton Wesleyan Church folks. Pastor Lyle Breeding was there with his crew selling “Son Buns” – amazingly tasty sticky buns that weighed atleast 17 lbs. each!

It was a good night.

The drive back was made pleasant by Switchfoot. Jess nodded off and is already in dreamland. I got my second-wind once we arrived home and decided to do some more work on the indyouth.com website – which, by the way, launched the other day.

Jess and I are nearly out the door to head to our yearly visit to the Bluffton Street Fair.

Pictures will follow, of course.