Happy New Year Everyone!
The service schedules are out for you to view on the Serve Crossroads-Kids blog, http://servecrossroads-kids.blogspt.com. Tomorrow stop by and see Hollie or I to get a paper copy of one. Starting out the new year we have several new team members, YEAY!!! This has allowed us to start a great new rotation in the Pre-School. We have 3 teams that will each serve a month and then take 2 months off. WOW!!!!! That will make it easier to catch an entire series in the main sanctuary. I am really excited about this rotation. We also have 3 new team members in the nursery too. YEAY!!! Welcome aboard Cholly Proffitt, Julie Nipper, and Tracie Waggerman (Sorry Tracie I misspelled your name on the schedule..oops). Hopefully soon we can move to a similar rotation in the nursery like the pre-school has.
We are looking hard for a dedicated set-up team in the children's annex. I would love for God to provide for us a dedicated volunteer team that would come in and get everything set up to give our teachers a bit of a break. Be on the look out for people you know that could serve in this capacity. Let Hollie or I know if you have an idea!
Look for quite a bit going on in the first few months of 2010. Hollie and I are noticing the calendar is getting more and more full and are excited to see all that God will do.
Hollie and I are so blessed to be serving alongside each of you. We think about you, talk about you, and pray for each of you daily. I KNOW that with God all things are possible and He is sure demonstrating His awesome power and providence by assembling such an amazing children's team. Unparalleled by any standards. You guys really do rock and I am so looking forward to seeing you soon.
Pastor Matt and Hollie
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Sunday, November 22, 2009
What!!!
OK, So I don't blog as much as I should. I am amazed at how time flies, and by seeing the date of my last blog, it is easy to see I don't have blogging in my regular schedule. The truth is, time management can be really tough. Even for the best time managers. The fact is that God wants us to be good stewards of our time just as much as money or anything else. Letting time slip by without considering it really is a crime.
What I 'TRY' to do is prioritize my 'To Do List'. Hollie and I meet every Sunday or Monday just for a few minutes to talk about things coming up. We talk about everything. From doctors appointments to devotion time, we cover it all. If we don't things get missed. I even plan nothing time. Don't get me wrong, the week doesn't always pan out the why I may have intended, but I always try to start the week with a good handle on what needs to be done.
From setting bible study goals, to cleaning the house, to catching up on TV shows it is a good idea to think out your week before it starts.
My promise to you is that I will put 'BLOGGING' in my list for this week. It hasn't been the last few weeks and I have never gotten around to it. Also, let me ask you for a favor. Send me a comment if you read this. I'd like to know your reading. I can also talk with you about time management if that interests you. I know it really helps me each week.
This is going to be an amazing week this week. I look forward to sharing my view from our Children's Ministry Blog.
Take Care,
Matt
What I 'TRY' to do is prioritize my 'To Do List'. Hollie and I meet every Sunday or Monday just for a few minutes to talk about things coming up. We talk about everything. From doctors appointments to devotion time, we cover it all. If we don't things get missed. I even plan nothing time. Don't get me wrong, the week doesn't always pan out the why I may have intended, but I always try to start the week with a good handle on what needs to be done.
From setting bible study goals, to cleaning the house, to catching up on TV shows it is a good idea to think out your week before it starts.
My promise to you is that I will put 'BLOGGING' in my list for this week. It hasn't been the last few weeks and I have never gotten around to it. Also, let me ask you for a favor. Send me a comment if you read this. I'd like to know your reading. I can also talk with you about time management if that interests you. I know it really helps me each week.
This is going to be an amazing week this week. I look forward to sharing my view from our Children's Ministry Blog.
Take Care,
Matt
Sunday, November 8, 2009
I love Crossroads
What a great day at Crossroads! I love meeting people, serving God, and I love seeing what God is doing in our midst.
We had a great day in the Peek A Boo nursery and the Big Wheels preschool. Our leaders and volunteers were so right on! I was so pumped. Great work all the way around. I saw God's love being presented to all the children today and it really blessed my heart. The children's annex next to the cinema is perfect, perfect, perfect. Thank you Lord so much.
Spy Cadet training in The Filling Station was put on a brief hold today. Hollie and I are praying for the quick recovery of Agent B. Make sure you rest your ankle Agent B.
Roadies 101 was so good tonight. I felt like if I wasn't a member of our church and went to a meeting like that it would make me really want to be. But wait I am serving at Crossroads and am so thankful for it.
All in all it was a great Sunday. The best! Can't wait to do it again.
Matt
We had a great day in the Peek A Boo nursery and the Big Wheels preschool. Our leaders and volunteers were so right on! I was so pumped. Great work all the way around. I saw God's love being presented to all the children today and it really blessed my heart. The children's annex next to the cinema is perfect, perfect, perfect. Thank you Lord so much.
Spy Cadet training in The Filling Station was put on a brief hold today. Hollie and I are praying for the quick recovery of Agent B. Make sure you rest your ankle Agent B.
Roadies 101 was so good tonight. I felt like if I wasn't a member of our church and went to a meeting like that it would make me really want to be. But wait I am serving at Crossroads and am so thankful for it.
All in all it was a great Sunday. The best! Can't wait to do it again.
Matt
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Yeeeee Haaaaaa!
Only in America!
Today I took my whole family to a Demolition Derby at the National Peanut Festival. It was so good. First, we got in for only $5 each because they were honoring military service members. That's cool! Next, in traditional 'State Fair' style the announcer brought up how we in the south had not forgotten those who died on 9-11. The whole crowd cheered and roared as he spoke louder and louder about our love of country. That brought in a local hero to sing the National Anthem. With the Anthem and it's cheers out of the way the crescendo was the sound of beat up cars, with souped up engines, ready to SMASH into each other. The whole crowd counted 5-4-3-2-1 and the loud engines, mud flying excitement was on. The drivers and their cars were animated and funny. The smashes and crashes plentiful. Each of us laughed really hard and found ourselves caught up in the excitement...each cheering for their own favorite.
Without a doubt, and somewhat surprising, this was the most fun we have had together in a long time.
We are so blessed to have this type of event to go to. As for me, the Demolition Derby at the Peanut Festival is a must see for next year.
Matt
Today I took my whole family to a Demolition Derby at the National Peanut Festival. It was so good. First, we got in for only $5 each because they were honoring military service members. That's cool! Next, in traditional 'State Fair' style the announcer brought up how we in the south had not forgotten those who died on 9-11. The whole crowd cheered and roared as he spoke louder and louder about our love of country. That brought in a local hero to sing the National Anthem. With the Anthem and it's cheers out of the way the crescendo was the sound of beat up cars, with souped up engines, ready to SMASH into each other. The whole crowd counted 5-4-3-2-1 and the loud engines, mud flying excitement was on. The drivers and their cars were animated and funny. The smashes and crashes plentiful. Each of us laughed really hard and found ourselves caught up in the excitement...each cheering for their own favorite.
Without a doubt, and somewhat surprising, this was the most fun we have had together in a long time.
We are so blessed to have this type of event to go to. As for me, the Demolition Derby at the Peanut Festival is a must see for next year.
Matt
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Hoppin' and Poppin'
When I was a kid I used to break dance. Yeah I know, that's a hilarious image. I had a breakin' name, all the garb and everything. I kept doing that until about 6th grade or so when I got really serious about team sports. Specifically football. I think one thing I like about football is how everyone relied on one another. While I was break dancing the streets of Plainfiled, Indiana I was usually on my own. Yes there could be many reasons for that, but one thing is for sure, I didn't rely on anyone. I could have been great, or I could have been terrible and it wouldn't of mattered. I could of taken my dance in any direction I wanted to and no body cared. Most times they were just laughing. They were laughing with me, right??? With football though I really liked how everyone had a position or an assignment. I even liked how there was competition with the other players to play certain positions. For me that added to the overall understanding that this 'Team' I was on meant business.
Teams are very dynamic entities. Anytime you take multiple people and try to motivate, encourage, train, and equip them to go and succeed in a certain direction, you will have challenges. The coolest part about being on a team is when the 'Team' begins to grow and move in it's own direction towards success. It's really an awesome thing.
I saw that over and over this past month in the children's ministry. I know you guys have been doing this for quite some time while I was gone, but it is important for me to let you know that I do see it. I see an effective, well put together, successful team. It is amazes me that this team was put together by God right before our eyes. I can't wait to see what God will do as we continue to press forward in submitting to His will and functioning as a great 'Team'
Great Job to all in October!
Teams are very dynamic entities. Anytime you take multiple people and try to motivate, encourage, train, and equip them to go and succeed in a certain direction, you will have challenges. The coolest part about being on a team is when the 'Team' begins to grow and move in it's own direction towards success. It's really an awesome thing.
I saw that over and over this past month in the children's ministry. I know you guys have been doing this for quite some time while I was gone, but it is important for me to let you know that I do see it. I see an effective, well put together, successful team. It is amazes me that this team was put together by God right before our eyes. I can't wait to see what God will do as we continue to press forward in submitting to His will and functioning as a great 'Team'
Great Job to all in October!
Friday, October 23, 2009
MIGHTY GOD
What a cool week for me. I finished training with LSI and have been assigned two students. Yay! I truly do love to teach. I consider it such an honor to get to teach US Army flight students. I think of all the jobs in the world I could be doing and I am so thankful for the one I have.
A cool point for me these next few weeks is that one of my students is from Holland. He is extraordinarily smart and has already flown several hundred hours so it will be a lot of fun.
Today I was laying out homework for both of my students and describing successful studying techniques and I mentioned studying on Sunday's. That was an easy, non-offensive, way for me to ask if they were going to be busy at church or something. They both said that they did not attend church here in Alabama, but my Dutch student mentioned that at home he attends the Church of England. He began to explain how this was similar to our Episcopal Church here in the US. I said to him, “so the Church of England has Judeo-Christian beliefs”. His eyes got really wide and he said, “I don’t know what that means, but I don’t think so”. I briefly described that it simply meant that he believes in the Hebrew God (Yahweh). He still seemed a bit puzzled, but from that point we just talked a little bit about Christ and our conversation seemed to go in another direction. As a government contractor I didn’t want to pry a whole lot, but his response to my saying “Hebrew God” really had me thinking on the way home. It had me thinking about how MIGHTY our God is and that probably many people today don’t realize that the God we serve today was THERE. He was there in every imaginable instance of all recorded time! Every laugh, every cry, every battlefield (WOW), every tear, every disaster, and every joy. Our God, the Hebrew God of Israel, Isaac, and Jacob, has always been there. Thinking about Him like this has me feeling very small, yet also very comforted. He is so MIGHTY…so very MIGHTY. There is NOTHING….no surprise, no bad boss, no financial situation, no marriage, no sickness, no family situation that He is not ABOVE. Our God is completely aware of all situations past, present, and future! Simply put, “HE IS HERE…NOW…FOR US...and ALWAYS HAS BEEN…and ALWAYS WILL BE”. All we have to do is let Him in. Isn’t that awesome!
See You Sunday,
Pastor Matt
A cool point for me these next few weeks is that one of my students is from Holland. He is extraordinarily smart and has already flown several hundred hours so it will be a lot of fun.
Today I was laying out homework for both of my students and describing successful studying techniques and I mentioned studying on Sunday's. That was an easy, non-offensive, way for me to ask if they were going to be busy at church or something. They both said that they did not attend church here in Alabama, but my Dutch student mentioned that at home he attends the Church of England. He began to explain how this was similar to our Episcopal Church here in the US. I said to him, “so the Church of England has Judeo-Christian beliefs”. His eyes got really wide and he said, “I don’t know what that means, but I don’t think so”. I briefly described that it simply meant that he believes in the Hebrew God (Yahweh). He still seemed a bit puzzled, but from that point we just talked a little bit about Christ and our conversation seemed to go in another direction. As a government contractor I didn’t want to pry a whole lot, but his response to my saying “Hebrew God” really had me thinking on the way home. It had me thinking about how MIGHTY our God is and that probably many people today don’t realize that the God we serve today was THERE. He was there in every imaginable instance of all recorded time! Every laugh, every cry, every battlefield (WOW), every tear, every disaster, and every joy. Our God, the Hebrew God of Israel, Isaac, and Jacob, has always been there. Thinking about Him like this has me feeling very small, yet also very comforted. He is so MIGHTY…so very MIGHTY. There is NOTHING….no surprise, no bad boss, no financial situation, no marriage, no sickness, no family situation that He is not ABOVE. Our God is completely aware of all situations past, present, and future! Simply put, “HE IS HERE…NOW…FOR US...and ALWAYS HAS BEEN…and ALWAYS WILL BE”. All we have to do is let Him in. Isn’t that awesome!
See You Sunday,
Pastor Matt
Monday, October 19, 2009
What A Great Weekend!!!
Such an awesome weekend for me. Thank you so much to my Crossroads family for being totally great. I had missed the first two Beach, BBQ, and Baptisms, so this weekend was especially great. Not to mentioned getting to baptise children with my wife. I honestly can't explain how cool that was for us. What an honor to be a part of each of those kids lives in such huge way. Thank You Lord!
Pagers seemed to go off pretty well. It was great trial run and we expect those to be a big hit for mom and dad.
We are creeping ever so close to launching the children's annex. I believe this is a huge key for our entire Crossroads family. We are blessed to have this space right next to the cinema and it really couldn't be more perfect for what we need. Very Excited! I can feel the anticipation from the nursery and preschool team for this upcoming move.
Great job to Kimber, Ashleigh, Harleigh, Tyler, Jarrod, Greg, Becki, Justin, Lyndsay, Marita, Erica, Jesse, and Brandy this weekend. Your effort, leadership, and commitment have had a huge impact. I mean it! I hope that you are well and in good spirits for this up coming weekend off.
A NEW STAR IS BORN!!! We had a special guest this weekend in The Filling Station.
'The Villain' came and had all the kids yelling, involved, and having a great time. Thanks Villain, you did a great job!
Sincerely, thank you all for all your hard work. Have a great week.
Matt
Pagers seemed to go off pretty well. It was great trial run and we expect those to be a big hit for mom and dad.
We are creeping ever so close to launching the children's annex. I believe this is a huge key for our entire Crossroads family. We are blessed to have this space right next to the cinema and it really couldn't be more perfect for what we need. Very Excited! I can feel the anticipation from the nursery and preschool team for this upcoming move.
Great job to Kimber, Ashleigh, Harleigh, Tyler, Jarrod, Greg, Becki, Justin, Lyndsay, Marita, Erica, Jesse, and Brandy this weekend. Your effort, leadership, and commitment have had a huge impact. I mean it! I hope that you are well and in good spirits for this up coming weekend off.
A NEW STAR IS BORN!!! We had a special guest this weekend in The Filling Station.
'The Villain' came and had all the kids yelling, involved, and having a great time. Thanks Villain, you did a great job!
Sincerely, thank you all for all your hard work. Have a great week.
Matt
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