Well, we finished our first official public church service. It was pretty cool. About 35 to 40 people showed up including the team. I ran sound, that went OK. I was able to get a better sound out of it this week than last I think…which is probably to be expected since we have about 30 minutes of practice time if we’re lucky.
Jeff preached a good sermon, mostly on stuff I’d heard him talk about one time or another before, but it was a great first public service kind of sermon. Worship was cool, and ministry time was more to what I would expect from a typical Vineyard service. It is always nice to have new people to pray for.
It seemed like several of the people that came were part of the Minneapolis Vineyard which burnt out rather badly I heard. It is sad to hear stories like that. But I wonder if those people will come back. It seemed like they all had churches they were fairly happy with, so I don’t know what was up. I think they mostly wanted to come check us out and support our efforts….but I didn’t really ask why they showed up, so maybe they will come back. I really wonder how we can keep up the publicity to attract new people, cuz I found that to be a fairly exhausting use of my time last weekend. Maybe if we just had some crazy miracles we wouldn’t have to worry about publicity.
Other than that I’m really worried about Lauren, she has developed something resembling Asthma attacks that are fairly severe and completely unrelated to any physical activity she is participating in. It was particularly bad last night when we were going to bed, and she had one while watching a movie. Both activities that involve laying down or sitting…not exercising. Man, I hate doctors sometimes…it is annoying when they just snap diagnose people. Now this inhaler she has isn’t really doing anything. I wonder if it is adult onset asthma, or something else.
I prayed for her last night, and it is getting depressing to pray for physical healing. I muster up every last bit of faith I can, completely convince myself that this should work, and then *POOF* ….Nothing. People keep telling me that they think I have the gift of healing (mostly Lauren…and sometimes Dirk), but I never operate in that gifting so I fail to see how I can actually have that anointing on my life. And I don’t fail for lack of trying. Frustrating.
Well. Other than that, the weekend was good. Walked on the ice on Lake Calhoun on Saturday, got a comic…they for some reason didn’t have the last spiderman book I missed…so I only picked up “Strange” issue 2. Watched Garden State again…liked it a little better this time. I noticed more subtle uses of color this time.