The Twitter Weekly

• still at work…trying to launch 2 new websites this month! #
• @NinaBoatman you guys are doing an amazing job! in reply to NinaBoatman #
• going home… #
• Good morning and happy Friday! #
• @successfool thanks man! in reply to successfool #
• At Baside this morning and Ray’s sermon on doubt is absolutely incredible. #
• Prepping for Thrive this week. It’s sold out! #
• @jbscotty looks great! in reply to jbscotty #
• What 2 sources of publicity would you prefer for your church? A viral YouTube video or a lead story in a local paper? #

Easter At Bayside

This year at Bayside we hosted 10 Easter Services.  We wanted to keep it simple and focused on celebrating the meaning of Easter.  We had a blast!  Lincoln and team did an amazing job leading in worship.  Our setlist was: Today is the day (Lincoln Brewster), I belong to you (parachute band), Mighty to save (Ben fielding), Amazing Grace (tomlin version) and then closed the service with You are good (Israel Houghton).

We produced 3 videos for this service 1 at the front end, 1 during Amazing Grace and 1 for Ray’s sermon.

Our stage and production team did a great job with the set and our lighting guy, Dave as usual did an amazing job.

We even pulled out the confetti canons for 3 of the services and shot them off at the end.  I have an amazing team!

Tweenbots

I came across this and thought it was cool.

Tweenbots is part of a project initiated by Kacie Kinzer of ITP.  Kacie writes;

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

…then God does something…

Oh crap! I have thought and said those 2 words to myself on a number of occasions. Here’s how it usually works for me. I get really involved in something. I love throwing myself into it. I see needs. In practically everything I see potential. I start dreaming. I start thinking. I start talking. I get the contract. I get what I asked for but never usually anticipate all the “other stuff” that comes with it. You know the fine print at the bottom of a 13 page contract that you skim over because you want the car.

Once, while working a full time job at a very established corporate company I decided to take on the position of a volunteer youth pastor for a church. Note, I was working my way up in the corporate company and their was probably a valid argument to discourage me from focusing on anything else other than my career. Valid as that argument may have been I didn’t heed it. I chose to focus on my career and on a group of inner city kids because I saw a need.  I saw a ton of potential and I felt I could make a difference. Little did I know the deeper I got the more I realized that I may have been in a little over my head. I labored for 7 years and in the end walked away exhausted but full of joy. God did a ton. Scholarships, college degrees, spiritual maturity, healed relationships, victory over addictions, excitement, purpose, love and community all visible in that group.
Perhaps conventional wisdom would tell me that I got lucky. I was over excited and under prepared for the task that I wanted to take on. I was naive and only by chance did I not destroy or perpetuate any negative cycles for these kids and as a result I should not do something like that again.

I have always had a hard time sitting on the bench in a game where anyone willing can have some game time it’s probably why I find myself in similar scenarios far too often.

“In almost every endeavor I go after, there is always a moment when I have tremendous regret. It’s always that moment when I’ve gone too far to turn back, and there’s absolutely no assurance of success. I start cursing my holy discontentment, my entrepreneurial nature, and I kick myself for being naive, calling it faith. And then God does something amazing, and I go do it all over again.”