- Services this morning seemed long to me. I think it was because I walked around a lot trying to take it all in since its my second to last Sunday. I am having a HARD time accepting what life will be like without TCC every Sunday!
- Had a Creative Team meeting today to begin solidifying the TCC Creative Machine that will take and run with many of my duties after I am gone.
- The band was absolutely incredible today. SPOT. ON. Awesome!
- Cole led us in worship for two songs out of the set and I loved it. The guy is truly a whatever it takes team player. I admire him in so many ways.
- Crud. I’m getting mushy already.
- Took a 24 hour trip to Dallas Friday and Saturday all by myself. The all by myself part stunk but the trip was awesome.
- In Dallas I got to:
- Go to the Rangers VS. Dodgers game. $200 tickets behind home plate FOR FREE. Ask me sometime how. I have a new system.
- Attend a church planter training
- Hang with some awesome church planters
- Meet two Russian church plant pastors. These guys were crazy, scary smart. Like Kristi West smart.
- Hear my Church Plant Coach, Sam Douglass speak. The guy just inspires the heck out of me and rips apart my strategy only to build it up even better each time I’m with him. I can’t believe I get to have him as a coach.
- Hear Jeremy White, lead pastor of Stonewater Church in Granbury, TX speak. This guy is the real deal. He cares about one thing: reaching people with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ and equipping them to become committed followers of Him, so that they can GO and reach and equip more people for Jesus Christ.
- Eat a lot
- Go to the Rangers VS. Dodgers game. $200 tickets behind home plate FOR FREE. Ask me sometime how. I have a new system.
- Whoa, that’s the first time I’ve had sub-bullets in a mind dump. I am getting all technical and organized.
- Felt soooooo good to hold my boy after being away from him for a full week. In July, I won’t see him or Amber for almost three weeks. I think I’ll just lock myself in a room with happy flowers and bunnies while they are gone so that I don’t feel the pain…
- Got a lot of good feedback from people today about watching Pastor Craig Groeschel’s “One Prayer: God is Love” message via video. I loved it!
- I can’t believe how many kids got so sun-burned at Beach Camp. Put sunscreen on once every hour…knuckle heads. I know Pastor Nic told you over and over and over…
- Just looked over at my wife. Wow. I cannot believe how beautiful she is. And she married me? My gosh…I am so out of my league…
- Its new iPhone week. Yeah!
Tag Archive - The Connection Church
Sunday Mind Dump
We Are Moving to Start a New Church
I am sharing some big news today. Its a happy news slash sad news kind of thing. We talked about it in church yesterday. You can click here to watch a video of the entire service.
The Connection Church has always been all about reaching people far from God. Pastor Cole has had a vision to reach the I-35 corridor between San Antonio and Austin for a long time. I personally have been praying that our church would do this for years but had no idea what I was actually asking God to do.
So here it goes. The great news is that The Connection Church will be partnering to start a new church in Schertz, TX.
And the sad news? I am the one moving my family to lead this new church. That is one of the toughest lines I have ever blogged…
A short story version of what happened:
Over two years ago I was asked to start a new church and I immediately shot down the opportunity. I figured nobody would ever want to work with me again.
This past October, I started feeling like maybe it was time to start a new church. I didn’t share the info with a single person other than Amber and two weeks later I was asked to start a new church again. I’ll leave out all of the long details about how we decided on a place and time table.
Bottom line: Amber and I have decided that the only way we can be obedient to God is to move and start this new church.
Let me say this: this is not necessarily what we want to do. We absolutely LOVE The Connection Church. We love the people and I don’t think I’ll ever have such an incredible team to work with. All of our friends are in this area, Austin in my favorite place in the world, and we have only been here for just over 4 years. I’m not going to be making a penny more than I was here. We are going to have to sell our house fast…We have way more reasons to stay here than we do to leave.
Except for that BIG REASON that trumps all: God told us to go. We want to obey Him no matter what. We trust God and we know that someday we’ll look back and this whole thing will make much more sense.
This isn’t so much the White’s leaving forever as it is, The Connection Church is sending the White’s to start a new church. We’re still unsure about some things, but we are very excited.
This new church will be all about loving God, loving people, and starting a revolution. We plan on still working together in some different creative ways in the future with TCC. In a way we will be extending the ministry of The Connection Church.
As for The Connection Church I personally believe that God has His hands on you in an absolutely incredible, unexplainable way. The best is yet to come at The Connection Church…really, things in Kyle are just getting started. I have never seen such a move of God as The Connection Church.
I ask you to please stay faithful to The Connection Church. God is the one who has built TCC and though I might be leaving, God is never going to leave TCC. He is the reason you are a part of this amazing community.
I hope you were in our service Sunday to hear this in person. If not, now you are all caught up. Stay tuned to the blog. Much more to come!
Sunday Mind Dump
- DANG it feels good to finally get to share the BIG news with you Connection Church! If you missed church today you can go HERE to watch the full service and see what all the hype was. Or, just stay tuned right here at the blog. I’ll post something specific to the announcement shortly.
- I can say honestly that Cole shared the absolute best vision message I have ever heard anywhere today. To be honest, it fired me up so much about TCC that I thought about walking out and retracting my announcement.
- Seriously, hold on to your rears because God is just getting started changing lives through TCC!
- I CANNOT believe that I didn’t cry on stage today. THAT alone was a move of God.
- I did shed some tears when we showed this baptism video though. That ALWAYS gets me.
- Something funny: I lost my notes five times this morning. That’s not me – I never lose things. Finally I gave in and took it as a sign that God wanted me to walk out with no notes. And right as I was about to walk out on stage to share, Bryan Geiger our ministry director came running to me with them in his hands. Thanks bro!
- Even though I had my notes, I still have NO IDEA what I said on stage today. It must have been ok because everyone was pumped up afterwards.
- Connectors, you were FIRED UP today!
- The memorial day video and prayer that we had today were POWERFUL.
- Someone told me that they got ripped off because we didn’t show a man-moment today. No worries…we’ll have one this week!
- Hung out with some of the SURGE (middle school ministry) today at our pool. Lot’s of questions about what God is doing in my life from close friends. Love the conversation.
Saturday Night Shots
- PUMPED about tomorrow at TCC. BIG STUFF!
- NOT PUMPED about tomorrow at TCC. You’ll see.
- PUMPED that my wife has started blogging. I’ll give her a little time before I share…
- PUMPED that we have a long weekend. I’ll need a recovery day after tomorrow.
- NOT PUMPED that I am getting NO baseball since we no longer have cable. STINKS.
- WONDERING what God has in store for the next year!
