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Weekend Teaching Series: Save the Planet (1 of 3)
Message Title: The Beauty of Creation
Sermon in a Sentence: To understand our planet, you have to start at the beginning.
Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 8 out of 10. We’re still facing a steep learning curve in the new building, but we’ve made great progress this week. We had some really cool media moments, and while there wasn’t a ton of traditional programming - lots of cues, timing and activity made this weekend quite challenging.
Attendance: down 33% from the previous weekend, up 34% from the same weekend last year
Service Length: 66 minutes
Understandable Message: A- I tried to focus the message on the Creator and tell the simple story of creation. We took Genesis 1 and formed it into the shape of a globe, which made the outline look different. At heart it was three simple points about what we can learn about the Creator from looking at His creation. I really enjoyed it, the 6:30pm Saturday night was the best of the bunch for sure.
Volunteer/Student Involvement: B-/A Students once again filled a ton of key roles – lights, camera, prayer team and band. We’re still working on student greeters inside the auditorium, that second level of relationship we need to further develop. Volunteers are present, but honestly we’re not doing a super job coaching everyone on expectations of new room and strategies to really connect in relationship. The programming has jumped up a level, but we’ve got to continue to focus on relationships.
Element of Fun/Positive Environment: A- We didn’t play any games or anything like that, but there was a good vibe to the room. I always like it when a student attends with high expectations and leaves thinking, “they didn’t just throw this together.” Great lights, great atmosphere, great opportunity to share Jesus. We had a cool opener (inspired by something we saw at Drive at Northpoint) with a radio tuner that tuned into the opening song. High energy for sure.
Music Playlist: Control (Mute Math cover) “We Belong to Jesus” “Yes You Have” “Let Me Sing”
Favorite Moment: For me, it was a series video bumper that one of our students created this week. After last week’s message, we sat down and talked about his shape and places to serve. He is totally gifted in media/video, and created a stunning and very artsy video we played right before the message. Such a great surprise – I’ll post it here as soon as we get it on our Blip account.
Notes: Fun to kick off our first major series in The Refinery. This was coming off of a short week which was packed with activities and events, but all in all it was a solid weekend. Another short week upcoming means lots to do in little time.
Overall grade: A
