HAPPY EASTER!!! He is Risen!
Today’s Sunday Setlist was:
- Holy Is The Lord – Chris Tomlin
- Rain It Down – Carlos Whittaker
- How Great Is Our God – Chris Tomlin
- O The Blood – Hillsong version
- Nothing But The Blood – Robert Lowry
- Hosanna – Brooke Fraser
I don’t know why we don’t bring our camera to church more often. We document just about everything else in our lives. Anyway… took some photos this morning:
I was just making my way through the crowds saying “Hi” when Brian took this.
During the worship service.
And to prove how short I am when everyone stands to worship. I know, I know… go ahead… crack a joke in the comments section. The best one gets a prize… of… a HUGE SMACK IN THE FACE! Yeah… ninja that!
Anyway… I digress. Back to church service stuff.
Part of being a church plant means you have to set up church from scratch every Sunday. I like to call it “Church-in-a-Box” because we LITERALLY build church out of boxes EVERY WEEK. We don’t get luxury items like a baptismal because of the set-up time, not to mention the crazy high cost of one.
Well… thanks to my friends (and church attenders), Sean & Faye Whitacre… today was the first time in Church! at Bethany history that we had our OWN baptismal in our service. Well… let me clarify, we’ve had baptisms… but always at other locations. The Whitacre’s built our baptismal basically from scratch and did an AMAZING job at it. Check it out!
We had seven baptisms today:
- Dave Blauer
- Nate Blauer
- Bethany Gibbs-Blauer
- Diana Graalum
- Alex Graalum
- Kristian Thackery
- Jensen Thackery
I’ve posted pictures below of some shots Brian got.
We also “closed-up-shop” for our church’s IMPACT Offering Challenge today. Our total today ended at $5,500. That’s over 5 times what we handed out 7 weeks ago. Though we didn’t make our goal of $7,500, we’re still EXTREMELY pleased at how this turned out. If you feel you’d like to contribute to our IMPACT, I’m going to keep the donate link (in the right column of this blogpost) open for a couple more weeks. Please feel free to give if you feel led.
That’s awesome about the baptisms!
thanks! we’re pretty excited about what happened today.
Seriously, Jenni… look at the last picture. Alex is taller than you and he’s what, middle school?
Love Nate’s face as he was going down…
Ok, but in all seriousness…
Awesome, awesome, awesome service today!!!
WHAT??? i was squatting down so that one of the 47 Thackery kids could see his brother being baptized.
ok. he’s probably taller than me. whatever.
however… nate’s face. three words: AH-MAZ-ING!
hahahahahaha!!!
I have to agree that Nate’s face is the best picture of the bunch.
Jenni you did a fabulous job today and the service was amazing. I love to see people taking the next step in their faith journey.
Great setlist & baptisms ROCK! How special to have one for your Body now… Blessings!