Here’s the "box score" for this past weekend at Granger Community Church.
Music: "Our House" by Madness; "If These Walls Could Speak" by Amy Grant
Message: "The Challenge of Keeping your Marriage Alive" — Rob Wegner, Pastor of Life Development, talked about God’s vision for marriage being oneness or connectedness–a unity of mind, body, soul and spirit. The problem, he suggested, is that the natural state of any relationship is toward entropy which leads to disconnectedness in marriage. Three disconnects that he highlighted were: 1. an unhealthy pace of life; 2. covered up complaints; and 3. forgetting to have fun. And, Rob must have thought it was important because he kept bringing up Proverbs 5:18-19 throughout the message–either that or he really likes deer.
Service Highlights: As a child of the 80s, I’d have to say you can’t get much better than this service. It was 80s week at Granger and we used clips from the Cosby show to illustrate the importance of a healthy marriage. Of course, the highlight for me in this service was the great 80s music including a rendition of Mr. Roboto which was used as the service prelude. You know it’s going to be a good service when it starts with Mr. Roboto.
Stats: 5,860 total attendance (4,451 adults + 1,409 kids); 31.6% increase from the same weekend last year
Percentage of weekend attendance by service:
- Sun 10:15 am = 31%
- Sun 11:45 am = 21%
- Sat 5:30 pm = 18%
- Sat 7:30 pm = 16%
- Sun 8:45 am = 14%
Final Notes: In case you’re not picking up on it, we’re experiencing quite a bit of momentum this fall at Granger. For the second time in the last six weeks, we broke an attendance record. This past weekend’s attendance gave us the largest non-Easter crowd we’ve ever had at Granger. In addition to that, it’s just plain fun to watch people between services showing their friends/guests around the building and explaining what happens around Granger Community Church. There are lots of new people showing up this fall. I love that!
You are absolutely right — you can’t go wrong with 80’s week! I’m a youth pastor and I’m always surprised at how the teenagers eat it up 80’s stuff. We can thank VH1’s “I Love the 80’s” and early 30’s youth pastors for keeping the dream alive in the younger generagtions!