Hot Dogs, Bloody Volleyball, and Church

Yes, it's true. Today at Sojourn there was hot dogs, a bloody game of volleyball, and best of all, church happened. But first let's start at the beginning of the day.

To start it all off, Toby and I sat at the AMC for about 30 minutes in case anyone showed up there for a service. What's great is 4 people showed up looking for Sojourn! That's 4 people who were coming for the first time! Exciting stuff! And lot's of exclamation points!!!

After sitting at the theater, we moved on to Ramsey Park. Here is Toby more worried about posing for the picture than cooking the hot dogs. And we all wondered why the hot dogs were crunchy.
And this is where it all went down. This is where the wound happened. It was Jason, and it was a itsy-bitsy cut, but it sure did bleed! He actually didn't know he had cut it until he notices blood all over his shirt and shorts. I say all over, there were a couple drops of blood here and there.
And like I said, best of all, we had church right there around those picnic tables. And it wasn't church like we had a whole band up there and Toby gave a 30 minute message. There was music, like 2 or 3 songs, and it was just me by myself. And Toby didn't give a sermon. He talked real with everyone. He talked about how exciting it was that people were genuinely interested in Sojourn and wanted to be a part of it. He almost cried. He almost made me cry.One of the coolest parts of the whole thing was Chris. Chris was a guy that had never been to our church before. He hadn't been to a single one of our services. And he didn't know a single person there at all. He heard about us from his step daughter who was at our service last weekend, and she told him that he absolutely had to come. So he showed up! All by himself, well other than the 2 small boys he had with him. He actually showed up at the theater at 9 in the morning thinking we had service at that time. Drove around the parking lot of the theater, then went home, got on his computer, looked at our website and saw that we were meeting at the park, and drove back out to the park! That's just super encouraging. And it's great to know that his step daughter liked it enough that she told that he "had to go check out that new church" as he put it.

So it was a great day. There was some real relationships being built this morning. And I'm so glad that I was able to be a part of it and build some relationships myself. It's going to be great to see everyone again next weekend.