ON TARGET

Here's an offering from last night's small group at the shooting range. Shows a marked improvement in my skills with a 9mm rifle over my first, faltering attempts a couple of weeks ago. That's a grouping of five shots and I'm impressed even if you're not!

So here's the moral I draw from an evening in the bowels of the earth at the basement range - it's hard to stay on target.

That's so true in church life too. There are a thousand things and hundreds of people too that can take you off course easily. That's the whole reasoning behind the concept of being a purpose-driven church. We discover our purposes and we allow them to drive the agenda - and nothing else.

So we're not people-driven, money-driven, building-driven or anything else, we're purpose-driven.

Our purposes are clearly defined - worshiping, connecting, growing, serving, going and we're doing all we can to stay on target!

SUPERCOOL PERSON OF THE WEEK
It's Friday, it's almost noon and all across America, people are waiting with as much impatience as they showed last Sunday night in Hollywood while Jack Nicholson opened the envelope to reveal the Oscar winner for best movie (thankfully not Brokeback Mountain!).

Who's our Supercool Peson of The Week?

Here's the story and then the name follows ...
When we were about to start Grace Church in the fall of 1998, I got a letter from a man I had known for a couple of years, offering to help in any way he could with the new church plant.
He's been with us from that day to this, still doing what he promised back then - serving wherever he could best fit in.

For the first five years he did a great job of looking after our ushering team and caring for our guests. But when we moved to the movie theater, it became clear that we needed someone trustworthy and consistent to oversee the security of such a large building, especially ensuring that our children's areas were safe. Now he walks the hallways and watches the doors every week so that we can worship unhindered.

He's the only person allowed to wear a tie at Grace Church and he's our Supercool Person of The Week - Mr. Security, Dick Blair.

The fact that Dick has brought me 7/11 coffee every Sunday for more than seven years has in no way influenced my decision in deciding this award!