RAOKing

This morning Tracy and I went to Starbucks to perform some RAOK's. It was great. I went first and asked the guy in front of me if I could buy his coffee. He almost jumped back 3 feet because i actually talked to him and then when i offered to buy his coffee he was very confused. I explained to him that i attended Destiny Church and we are doing random acts of kindness. I handed him a RAOK card and he agreed. Still a little taken back, he looked at the card I bet 5 times while waiting for his coffee. Before he left he walked up to me, smiled and said thanks. Tracy was next. She caught two ladies in line and offered to buy their coffee and they couldn't understand why so she handed them a RAOK card and they said they were from North Vegas and were just passing through but told her they had never heard of anything like this before. They wouldn't let her buy their coffee and told her to buy someone's else's that lived down here but kept the card and commented again how bizarre it was and that they had never heard of something like this. So we sat down and we said we would wait for "the" lady to come in. In just a few min. she walked in. Tracy offered to buy her coffee and the lady was very confused until Tracy told her why and gave her a card. Come to find out she works for safe key at the same school we meet in. There is something significant to this for those of you who know the history here. God is awesome!!! How is your RAOKing going???

WOW!

What an awesome service today! It was great to see so new faces at Destiny today. Our church is a VERY special place. I love it! I couldn't imagine doing life with any other group of people. Today there were 5 people that accepted Christ!!!!! You guys are doing an amazing job of inviting your friends and family to church. We started our series "In God we Trust?" today and it was great. Thanks to the Women's Medical Research Center for allowing us to partner with them in helping minister to families in Vegas! Every single baby bottle was gone after service!!! I told Carlye that we will need MORE bottles for next week. I am so proud of our church. I can't wait to hear about the random acts of kindness that we will be performing this week. I will be blogging this week about mine and Tracy's RAOK moments. Make sure that you leave a comment here and share with our community how God used you to be "generous" in the lives of others this week. Remember, It's all His. He's entrusted some to me. What He's entrusted to me, I am to use for Him! Let's live life WIDE OPEN this week and change our world for Jesus!!!!

Generosity

I am very excited about the upcoming series on generosity. This series is going to be packed full of of opportunities for all of us at Destiny Church to express generosity to our community. First, we will be handing out RAOK (random acts of kindness) cards each week. The idea is for us to look for ways we can show generosity to someone by doing small acts of kindness and then handing that person a RAOK card telling them that we attend Destiny Church. It could be paying for someone's gas or groceries. It could be washing a neighbors car or helping out a little extra at the office. Whatever we feel the Holy Spirit prompting and giving us the opportunity to do. Next, we are partnering with the Corps of Compassion for a Ravioli drive. The Corps feed several hundred homeless and hungry kids every weekend. Each week we will have the opportunity to bring a can or a case of Ravioli to church. We are also partnering with the Women's Medical Research Center for a baby bottle drive. We will have baby bottles on the back table for each family to take one and fill it up with spare change during the series to help needy ladies with pregnancies and medical issues they may be facing. Both of these organizations are Christian based and are right here in our city! Finally, the last week of the series, we are going to pay $1000 off of someone's credit card debt!!! I can't wait!!! This is going to be a church changing series! Don't miss a single week of it and make sure to bring someone with you!!!!!!!!!

sleep walker

Today i want to share a story with you. This morning Tracy told me something. I am not sure that i fully believe her. Let me know what you think!!! She and I are doing this low-carb diet for a while and have been on it now for about 3 weeks and have been doing great. Well this morning she tells me that last night she caught herself sleepwalking 3 times. The first time she said she was standing at the top of the stairs looking down. The second time she said she was downstairs looking in a cabinet. The third and final time she said she woke up with a mouth FULL of pizza!!! She said she spit it out immediately. First of all, i have never known her to sleep walk and secondly she had a mouth full of pizza!!!!! Come on!!!! She denies any malicious behavior and pleads complete innocence. I am not sure i believe that......................Maybe i will take up "sleepeating" tonight. hehe
what do you think? Is she guilty or a victim of a diet gone to far???

Get Your Serve On!

I just finished a great book on servant leadership. I think it will be one of my all time favorite reads. It really re-focused my life mission. I like to think of the Kingdom of God like an upside down kingdom. If I want money to be a blessing, I give some away. If i want to be great, i become the servant of all. If i want a great ministry I have to serve another's. Sometimes it is so easy for me to live life in an "earth" way instead of the Kingdom way. Before i know it, i am fearful about finances and struggling to make my church grow and worrying about how i look in others eyes. If i am not careful and intentional i can easily allow situations and circumstances affect me. I have to remind myself that what is going on inside of me is so much BIGGER than anything going on around me. With God' help I am viewing my life with greater clarity and understanding. Like never before i see that my life isn't at all about me. Who can i serve into greatness to day? Who can i bless with what i have been blessed with? Who can i sow into today? My goal???? Get my serve on!!!!

Great to be home! I spent an amazing week in Alabama and Oklahoma. I attended the ARC conference in Birmingham and then from there I was at Bishop Tony Millers conference in Oklahoma city. I got to hear from some of the best pastors and leaders in the body of Christ. Men like Brian Houston of Hillsong Church, Chris Hodges from Church of the Highlands, Kelly Varner and Bishop Miller. God really spoke some great things to my spirit this week. Of the things that impacted me the most was when I heard the Holy Spirit say to me "Get out of the way!" I was praying about our church and our country. I have read the church planting books, interviewed church planters and have had some of the best coaching available but NOTHING can replace the gentle leading of the Holy Spirit. He knows what our city needs better than anybody. My resolve is to pray, listen, and have the guts to obey. Even if it cuts against the grain of church planting normal! Have you ever had a plan that God interrupted? Did you obey or stick to it? What was the outcome?