Yesterday was an anomaly on our church calendar. The Sunday after Thanksgiving is notoriously low for the attendance of churches. Somewhere between the travel of Thanksgiving and the exhaustion following Black Friday, church people end up missing come Sunday. This week we successfully cut our church in half (I can't wait to share the growth percentage next week. This week we're down 50%; next week is all upside.) Anyway. Days like yesterday make one pause to be thankful for the quality people that we have who fill specific roles for us. It just so happened that almost all of those people ended up away on the same day. Leaving me to get donuts, pick up the trailer, unload, set up, and pull together volunteers to fill positions on the fly. Along the way people joined in to help, and, I'm incredibly thankful for the help yesterday, and the patience of everyone who was involved in our service. I'm looking forward to having everyone back next week.
But one thing that was really cool was the way some people changed their plans to be a part of making yesterday successful. (In one case driving hours from PA to get to church on time to cover the children's church since our scheduled worker inconveniently got pancreatitis. Please plan better next time Sarah...just kidding. We missed you.) Others showed up and asked why no one had called them, they would gladly have come earlier. A sound tech that I expected to not be there, did show up and helped run the tech stuff. I was very thankful for the effort of everyone.
--Ben
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We almost managed to cut CCF in half as well. Our average of close to 400 turned into 260 on Sunday thanks to the tryptophan.
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