Looking back - looking ahead!

Here are a couple of thoughts from the weekend......

High Points:

• Clothesline ended up giving out 1000 huge bags of clothes again this year and over 280 volunteers made the weekend happen!! Incredible!
• The student ministry hosted the first "After-Party" on Friday night after the game - great crowd and a great start!!
  
• NStar hosted the Friday night "Top of the Rock" football game between rivals North Cobb High & Harrison High. 22 volunteers from our singles ministry worked concession stands and our "grill crew" cooked over 700 hamburgers to feed the huge crowd!! This allowed all of the football booster parents to watch their sons play in the big game! By the way - NCHS took home the Top of the Rock trophy for the first time since it was created in 1998 with a 13-12 victory. Thanks NStar singles for making the weekend happen!
  
• We continued our "Coin" series with Scream......we talked about greed and ways we control greed in our lives! Maybe my favorite message we have ever done on finances! We started in 2003 being very open about money and the role it plays in our lives......I never mind sharing stuff that God says so much about and can set our people free if they follow!! Fun day - great worship (as always) and just a great time!
• The Kennesaw Titans (14u travel team) swept a DH from Johns Creek (7-2 & 8-3) and improved to 5-1 for the fall season! Long day on Sundays (3 services and 2 games) but fun!!
• Today we will work more on our Coin series and work on our next 2 messages - good stuff!!
• After a long day away yesterday - we hung out in the backyard last night as a family and it was so sweet!!

Low Points:

• My beloved GT Yellow Jackets toyed with me again and got my hopes up and then got busted in the chops by a very good Boston College team! I still think the Jackets will have a strong season!
• All of the Dawg fans were back to harass me at NStar yesterday, I guess the big victory over the Catamounts of Western Carolina got their confidence back up!!
• The Falcons...it is bad when I am gone all day and miss the game but don't even care to TIVO it and watch it later.....
• The Braves season is getting close to being over...we will wear black for a few days with the Bravo's going off(unless a miracle happens in the Wild Card race!)

Enought about last week - I am going to dive in to this new one and see what great stuff is ahead!!! Game day is just around the corner - October 7th is quickly approaching - can't wait to see how NStar adapts to all of the changes!! I am feeling another "surge" coming!