Weekend Teaching Series: Save the Planet (2 of 3)
Message Title: Caring for the Environment
Sermon in a Sentence: God’s first instruction to Adam was to care for creation. We should do the same.

Key Verse: The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. Genesis 2:15

Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 7 out of 10. Every week we get new bells and whistles as the building nears final completion. We purchased some new HD worship backgrounds this week that looked really sharp, too.

Attendance: up 8% from the previous weekend, up 66% from the same weekend last year
Service Length: 64 minutes
Understandable Message: B+ Part of my goal was to “reclaim” caring for the environment from the far left. My heart behind this talk is that it was God’s idea to care for the planet, and it is about time we started to take that seriously.

Volunteer/Student Involvement: C/C Students filled in a few roles this week – but it was a pretty staff driven weekend. There was a fun student video called “10 ways to save water” that played really well and we did have some students checking out different roles they could fill in the future.

Element of Fun/Positive Environment: B The fun was basically within the message, we played a clip from Wall-E and at the beginning had a person riding around the stage in an electric scooter.

Music Playlist: Everlasting God, Breathe on Me, Wonderful Maker, God of Wonders

Favorite Moment: Easily my favorite moment was having a student come on stage and break a cinderblock on stage that represented the way we treat the earth. It was a fun (if dangerous for the first row and for the guitars on stage – doh!) moment in the service that I think was very memorable.

Notes: For a 4th of July weekend, I couldn’t have been more pleased with the turnout and the tone of the weekend. We kicked off the new Bottles for Bibles campaign this weekend as well. Go HSM!

Overall grade: B