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Man Night - Saturday

This Saturday in the great metropolis of Hartselle, Bad Boy Boxing is holding an event titled Alabama Extreme Cage Fighting in the Hartselle Civic Center.  I dont watch Ultimate Fighting, I've never been to a cage fight - but this sounds way too redneck to pass up.  Seeing someone get beat to a bloody pulp on purpose inside of a cage sounds like my kind of fun!

The event starts at 7:30.  Tickets are $15.00 for general admission - $20 for ringside.  Several guys from Crosspoint are planning to go.  So lets go hang out.

We can meet at the Mexican Restaurant - El Portal  - in Hartselle at 5:15 - that should get us out in time to get over to the civic center early and get a decent seat.  We might take your money and send someone over early to get tickets. 

If you are going - leave me a comment, email me - or call the church phone and let me know so we'll get a table big enough.  Someone will be there at 5 to reserve the table.

Video WIP

This is a Work In Progress - but here is our first ever public video recording of a Crosspoint Service.  We always hesitated because we couldnt be as good as the big guys.  We adopt a new philosophy now however - "dont worry - be crappy."  We will do the best we can with what we have unless it absolutely sucks.  Right now we are using vimeo because a) its free, b) its very good quality and c) its easy to embed on our website.  You cant podcast it though that I know of.  We'll fix that and upload a podcast too i guess.  This is pretty raw, one camera angle, no operator really, and I just edited out the on screen video because you couldnt see it.  I posted it Sunday.

You can go here and visit the channel to watch all future episodes. 

Our tech people will perfect this - or at least make it better.  By the way - if you'd like to be on the technical team let Kenny know (kenny at moviechurch dot tv) and he'll hook you up.  No experience necessary - you just have to like toys.

Hot Topics from Crosspoint Church on Vimeo.

Crosspoint T's

You may have noticed Sunday a LOT of people were sporting the new Crosspoint T Shirt they got at the Pig Out.  They look fantastic!  A lot of people asked about getting a shirt but the lobby experience got hosed up by batman so we didn't have them available Sunday.  Also we ran out of Small.  They will be available for $10.00 in the lobby this week (and every week).  They come in Brown and Charcoal and sizes range from Small-3XL.  We also have some kids sizes.  We will be making them free to first time guests as we revamp our guest services and follow up system.  Hopefully we'll be rolling out a few more designs along with some other stuff to promote Crosspoint and give freebies to our guests.

Ministry Opportunity - Personal Assistant

I am in the market for a part time personal assistant.  The pay is the same as I get (zero).  As we grow, my capacity to manage some of the details of Crosspoint create bottlenecks and too many dropped balls.  I am looking for someone to assist me in several areas.  Ideally this person would not have a full time job already and be free to work wherever and when ever doing things like screening phone calls and email and handling certain tasks that need to get done that I dont have time to do any more.  The qualifications are simple. 

1 - you must love Jesus more than anything in the world
2 - you must love Crosspoint - that will be evident in how you've served, how you give, and how you attend.
3 - you must be able to use and understand technology.  If you cant use a computer or text message or figure out something like twitter - this wont be for you.
4 - you must have great people skills but have a thick skin.
5 - you need to be accessible days, evenings and weekends.
6 - you must be self starting and able to get things done without me going "is it done yet?"
7 - I have to like you.

As I said - this job doesn't pay (right now) but who knows where it could lead for the right person.  Tasks might be things like ordering equipment, answering email, finding a vendor for a purchases, running an errand, getting props, following up with one of the many irons i have in the fire and the like.  Also the personal assistant will set up the "green room" at the theater on Sunday, run interference for me if necessary, and make sure that I have tic-tacs, caffeine and I am ready to preach.  If you are interested shoot me an email and tell me why you would be good for this.  If I dont select you it doesn't mean you suck - it just means I selected someone else so remember the part about the thick skin.

Rated PG

The following video is rated PG.  Prude Guidance necessary.  Since our theme for hot topics was tropical I told people if we broke 200 I'd wear a grass skirt and coconut bra.  Father - Forgive my unbelief.  We broke that last weekend and then had even higher this weekend.  However THIS video may have made people wonder what in the world we are doing.

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Sometimes I wonder what Im doing. Really the video had no point other than to entertain and show people I wasnt kidding when I said i'd do it. I still have to make good on my commitment live. Stay tuned. When we hit 100 I shaved my head. No telling what I'll do to get to 300. Anything short of sin!

Sunday Mind Dump

• Holy smoke what a day!
• Batman jacked up our lobby experience today with 9:00 and 9:30 showings.
• I want to go see it ASAP!
• They had 6 people total.  Why do they even bother!  This is Decatur Alabama - not Hollywood!
• Still had a heck of a day talking about Politics - was Jesus a republican?
• Jesus wasn't in to politics - he was in to people!
• Hopefully we'll be able to post the full video this week - stay tuned.
• We pushed the envelope today one of the videos - i'll post it later.  Well maybe both of them.
• Shattered another attendance record today!
• 234 souls - in July!  Holy smoke!  Whats going on here?
• We are starting to run out of space!
• Two hour staff meeting today to discuss options for the next phase of growth!
• Get ready for some changes!
• Lots of options.  Lots of money too!  God aint broke.
• Still pumped about the spontaneous baptisms at Pig Out yesterday.
• The crowd was ultra rowdy today.  
• Tried to steal Gary Lamb's assistant, Taylor Garcia, who was in town visiting family today.
• Need her husband Chris too!  Would love to have the whole family.  We already got his sister, brother and mom!  Love that family!
• I didn't wear the coconut bra and grass skirt live today - but stay tuned for a video...maybe this went too far.
• We had a hoola hoop contest today between me and two teens.  I lost - but I think I looked the sexiest doing it.  Evan went non-stop for the whole two minutes.  Robert got great style points.  I had to lay down on the floor and breathe!
• Got a funeral to head to, then I think Im going to take some drugs and go to bed.  Battled a headache for the last 24 hours or so.
• Fun fun day!  God is Good!  Loving Crosspoint and what's happening.  I am amazed and humbled.
• Jesus ROCKS!

Pig Out - WOW!

Unbelievable Pig Out today.  It was nearly 100 degrees but what a day.  I'll grab some people's photos and post later but this was the best year ever.  The food was awesome, the kids had a blast on the water slide and the bounce house, the pool felt great and there were so many new faces!

We had 10 scheduled to be baptized.  After I was done I opened it up and 5 more joined the party.  It was incredible to see people just be obedient to God.  One family went together - there were 6 of them all total and we dunked em all at the same time.  It was absolutely awesome!

Also our T-shirts look INCREDIBLE this year.  They are not Pig Out specific either.  They come in two colors and I promise people will take notice.  We ran out of some sizes - we'll get more printed.  They are only $10.00 and buckle would want to sell them.  You can get one at Church.  One of the guys that got dunked, Eric, did the design and Pam had them printed. 

AWESOME AWESOME day!  Im beat.  See you in the morning!

Can't wait till tomorrow!

Pig Out

This Saturday is our Annual Pig Out BBQ Bash and Baptism Celebration.  Its THE event of our church and this year will be a blast.  It starts at 2:00 and we have the best catered Pork Chicken and Ribs you can eat.  Bring your side dish, lawn chair, maybe some lawn games.  We have a great location to hold it!  There will be a tent, fans to keep you cool, a pool to swim in, and the kids will have a moon bounce and water slide.

Im really looking forward to hanging with my crosspoint peeps, getting to know some of the new faces, and dunking a bunch of folks.  Make sure you are there to watch and celebrate this important step.  I may hold a few of them down for good measure! 

See you Saturday!

Secret mission

Headed to a top secret location to shoot video for this weeks Hot Topic. Looking forward to Sunday. It's one of the things you should never talk about. Hot stuff!

Quick hits

Travelling this week no time to blog
11 hour days
Video shoot tomorrow in secret location for hot topics
iPhone is the coolest gadget EVER
Blogging from it now with the typepad app
YouVersion app is very sexy
Miss my Fam already
I am starting to get hooked on monster energy drinks
I going to bed early and watch a movie -yes on iPhone
Crap my feet are asleep in the toilet