Box Score for September 30, 2007

Here’s the "box score" for this Sunday at NewSpring Church.

Music:
"We Are Rescued" by Justin Land/Jeremy Barber (@ the 6:45 service only!); Check out the rest of the setlist on Lee’s blog

Message: "Stepping Up" — Perry Noble,
Senior Pastor, taught from I Peter 2:9-12 and addressed four questions that must be answered before we can step up in GameTime. He answered the questions: Why are we doing this?; Why should we be involved?; Why is this a challenge for us?; and Why does this matter? Perry explained, "We are a people belonging to God, and our mission is to bring light to a dark world."

Service Highlights: During one point in the message, Perry asked folks who first connected to NewSpring while the church was meeting at Anderson University to stand up. First of all, it was fun to honor those folks for the investments they made to reach thousands of people for Jesus in the Upstate. Secondly, it was amazing to see that there were more people seated than standing. I can’t believe the number of people who have started attending NewSpring in the last 18 months. What a move of God!

Stats: 7,747 total attendance; 586 person increase (8.2%) from the same weekend last year

Final Notes: We had an unbelievable response to the new service times. There were 498 kids at the 5:00 p.m. service to eat the free pizza and ice cream (yes, we’ll have it again this week). And, the 6:45 p.m. service had lots of buzz with college-aged singles everywhere. The crowd really seemed to engage with the additional music. We were excited to see 45% of our weekend attendance at the two evening services. As Perry mentioned, you’ll want to get to the services early this coming weekend. We have some cool stuff planned at the very beginning of the service. You won’t want to miss it.