IFIT WAS A HIT

A HUGE thank you to all of those people who worked through the day on Sunday to prepare the church for IFIT. It was a great night with many highlights:

* The BBQ Homestyle cooking was cool.
*Have you met anyone who doesn't like Bingo? Great interaction and prizes.
*The volunteers honored this year were really a great cross section of people from our church who represented every ministry and generation well.
* We have some BIG vision for this year. Regional Reach Teams and Homestretch are two of the biggest dreams we've ever encountered.
* The energy in the room was off the chart.
*ALL that in 1:39; I couldn't believe it, an hour and 39 minutes door to door. It was a great night.

WEEKEND REFLECTIONS

It's Tuesday, time for Weekend Reflections.

1. Preparing a Place
As you may or may not know by now I'm gonna be a dad (we are adopting)!!! Since selling our home on August 31st Melinda and I have been working really hard to prepare a place to have a family. It's been a ton of work...

2. Enterprise Breakfast
Enterprise Breakfast was Saturday morning and about 45 of our business people attended. Wow, what a time. I am so very passionate about this group of people in our church. I shared on the topic, "The Profile of a True Business Leader." I will post the notes here later in the week.

3. Saturday Night Race
Wow! I started 2nd row outside (4th). By lap 2 I was in the lead. We had a red flag for a bad wreck on lap 32ish. Somehow I picked up some debri and got a leak in my RF tire. I lost the lead on lap 35ish and settled into 5th. At about lap 110 I was feeling a pretty bad vibration and the car was starting to push real bad. I dropped to sixth because of the push. I settled into sixth through about lap 135ish and then we had a caution. After the caution the tire went completely flat and I had to pit. I ended up 8th overall and finished the race. It was an amazing weekend and the last race at Evergreen this year.

4. A BIG THANK YOU.
To all the guys and gals on the race team. People have no idea the work, maintenance, cleaning and preparation it takes to race a car--not to mention 2 cars! Thank you to the cleaning crew, who on Sundays pushed the cars out to pressure wash them; the Monday-Thursday crew, who repaired and maintained all the mechanical elements; and the Friday and Saturday crew, who set up the car and made it better at the track.

Racing would not be possible without our sponsors MTS Construction, Noland and Dixie Bender; Rock of Ages Plumbing, Rock and Sue Borchardt; Hometown Lending, Aaron and Nikki Anderson; Speedway Autocraft, Fred and Jaylene Hall; and all those--Tim and Linda, Jim and Laurel, Ryan and Jenny and others--who have given me a gift certificate for tires, fuel and miscellaneous parts. Also thank you to the church who took a special offering for me on Father's Day to live my dream of racing.

Especially I want to thank my friend Roger. Without Roger Habich I would have never experienced what I experienced this year. His determination to get me in a car for the last 6 years prevailed. Saturday night as we were crossing the finish line together (almost side by side) I had my hand out the window saluting you. Thank you man for all your hard work.

5. Sunday Church
We launched a new series called IFIT this weekend. IFIT evolves around John 1:6-8, "There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light."

There was a man who was sent from God...Each of us is that man/woman sent from God. Each of us "fits" God's great big purpose--the local church! I am so stoked for the IFIT Banquet coming up this Sunday night. It is going to be one of the best nights of the entire year!!!

Well, that's a quick recap of last weekend. Looking forward to what's on the plate this week.