THR3E....

Yesterday Elevation hosted THR3E....it wasn't a conference, it was an event. No frills, no worship, no vendors and booths. It was stripped down raw in your face nuts and blots of our first three years of ministry. There were so many things that happened, let me highlight THR3E:

1. Our volunteers honored the 174 pastors that were there from around the country like I've never seen before. It was an HNL when it comes to honor! I am so proud of our people. Many took a vacation day to serve from 6:00am to 6:00pm.

2. Pastor Steven "shucked the corn". I have seen him preach hundreds of sermons, but I have never seen him more in the zone than yesterday. It was an amazing thing to witness and experience.

3. The Pastors that came from around the country walked away blessed and blown away. It was an incredible thing to see happen. Something shifted yesterday, something that will have a profound ripple effect around the country!!!

Easter Intro Video...

I think we have an amazing staff at Elevation. From top to bottom it's a bunch of gifted people who love God and love people. Our most recent hire is a guy named Adam Hobbs...the guy is annointed with video. He put together this video which we used as the intro for all of our Easter worship experiences. Check it out, I promise it will be one of the greatest things you'll ever see....

Elevation Church Easter Opener from Elevation Church on Vimeo.

Looks can be deceiving....

Sometimes first impressions can be spot on and sometimes they are dead wrong....After watching the video, be honest - how many of you expected that?

Easter 09 Recap...

This past Easter weekend easily became one of my top 5 Elevation moments. It was an incredible display of God's mercy and grace. Here's a recap of the weekend:

Saturday Night: We had a one time Easter only Saturday night worship experience at our Providence campus. Going into the weekend we guessed that we'd see around 400 show up...We did have 400 ish show up, but that was in overflow because the auditorium was filled to capacity. It was a first century church moment with people cramming in to hear the message. All total over 1,400 people came out Saturday night to hear the gospel.

This was Overflow Saturday night!!!

Sunday: We are all about the numbers at Elevation, the number of marriages God can put back together, the number of people who experience salvation and the number of people who experience the mercy and grace of Christ. There were two BIG numbers we were asking God for going into the weekend:

Attendance: We were asking Him to blow out minds and bring 7,000 people to our campuses to hear the gospel and He blew our wildest imaginations....7,8999 showed up.

Salivations: As a staff were were not advertising the number we were praying for, but we were aggressively asking Him for 700 people experience forgiveness of their sins...guess what, He blew that out of the water as well...740 people professed faith in Christ!!

Monday: Absolutely exhausted in the best way possible. The best way to describe it is "a Holy hangover"....

God is Good!!!!!!