ARE WE THERE YET?

Sunday September 9th, 2007 - I'm counting down now to our public launch of Church At The Movies - Ronkonkoma.

Here are some of my concerns heading into the big day -

1. How will we fit everyone into the theater?
2. How will we fit everyone into the theater?
3. How will we fit everyone into the theater?

Okay, I guess you've got the point. We have an amazing team of volunteers who have spent the past three Sundays readjusting to their new environment and in fact there is very little for me to focus on apart from what I'm teaching and where we put everyone. The latter isn't really my problem at all, it's John Leone's!

We'll soon discover how quickly we need to move onto the second plan for Ronkonkoma where the main drawback at the moment seems to be the largest theater only has 327 seats. Thankfully our children's programs and Big Screen Cafe help ease the congestion in Theater 5 - or they have done up to now!

Planting a church is a lot like jumping off a bridge - there's no way back. It has been very aptly described as the extreme sport of pastoring.

I'm a jumper.

Life's too short to let it be boring and the opportunities are too great not to take some risks.

Day one of our church was a huge adventure of faith (risk) and this coming Sunday we start officially in a brand new location after moving everyone and everything six miles further west, or northwest or something - risk.

Time to jump off another bridge - I can hardly wait.