Vacations are hard work

Vacations can be difficult. Actually preparing for them is the tough part. We are leaving for a quick trip down to visit family and do alot of fishing back in our old stomping ground of South Florida. The preparation is killing me. I am a structured person when it comes to my preparation for my messages. I have a routine (I'll explain what it is at a later date). I have built-in deadlines in my schedule. So right now my goal is to complete my entire message for Easter Sunday BEFORE I leave. I know myself well enough to know that if I don't get it done I will be thinking about it the whole time I'm on my vacation (I know....it's an illness!).
It's hard to concentrate on fishing when all you can think about is work!

Preparing for Easter

No doubt about it, Easter is a huge day. For a Pastor, Easter is like the Superbowl, World Series, and the Stanley Cup all rolled into one.
This Easter we will begin a new message series called "WOW", Can we play that at church?
It's kind of a Foothills at the Grammys type thing. Each week we will introduce a theme using a popular song. On Easter we will kick it off with the song "The Reason" by Hoobastank.
We will also add a 4th service for Easter. The Easter service times will be Sunday at 7:15am, 8:30am, 9:45am, and 11:15am. To try to entice some people to come to the 7:15am service we will serve a small breakfast. The other services will have the usual donuts.
We are expecting 1500-1800 people for Easter so it should be great!
Don't forget to invite all of your friends. It's been proven that they will come (especially on Easter) if you invite them.

Here we go

Well, I suppose there is a first time for everything.
A first step, a first word, a first time riding a bike, a first date, a first job, a first paycheck, a first... well you get the picture.
Today is my first blog attempt! A pretty big step considering I am not a writer.
I will attempt to post often (whatever that means).
Anyway, here goes nothing.
First, a little about me. I am the husband of the most incredible, beautiful, godly woman on the planet. I am the father of the 3 greatest kids in the universe. And I am the Pastor of the most amazing church in the world (Foothills Community Church-- www.foothillscc.org)
I am a transplant to the great state of South Carolina by way of Florida.
My wife and I planted Foothills Community Church 8 years ago, and have a passion to reach more and more people with the wonderful message of Jesus Christ.
One of the things I will attempt to do through this blog will be to chronicle the journey of our church.