I’ll blog later this week about numbers. Every time I mention numbers here, it causes a bit of a stir in blog world. I’ll explain why numbers matter. Don’t worry.
Until then, here are a few numbers on my mind today:
- 4 – We completed final testing on our Web Campus this evening. After a few tweaks this week, we’ll open NewSpring’s fourth campus next Sunday with services on the Web at 11:15 am and 6:00 pm (oops…forgot about the Super Bowl) Eastern time.
- 11,000 – Today we had over 11,000 people at our services for the first time on a day that wasn’t named “Easter” or “Christmas”. 11,000 people heard how Jesus makes the impossible possible.
- 650 – During the last month, over 650 people have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior at NewSpring. If you want to know what that’s all about, email me. I’d love to share my story, the story of Jesus and see where that fits in your story.
- 1 – While all this was happening today, we had 1 senior pastor taking a much needed break at Disney. Yes, we know God has uniquely gifted Perry to lead NewSpring. We don’t take his leadership for granted. At the same time, today was an indicator of great leadership empowerment. All that transpired today took place while Perry was hanging out with Mickey Mouse.
Those are some of the numbers on my mind this evening. I’m overwhelmed. I’m humbled. I’m amazed. I’m praying that this is only the beginning of waves of salvations and life change.
God is good.
Tony,
Thank you for this post! It eloqoently says so much of what is on my heart right now! I, too, am humbled that God has favored me to be a small part of His move here, that He has called me to serve His body in this place at this time. Thanks to you & your team’s hard work on the web campus…so excited to be part of this amazing tool! And, Perry, Tony didn’t mean that we don’t need you…we just need Jesus more! Thanks, Tony!
Amazing! So proud of you guys.
Was at the 11:15 in Greenville today, my older 2 teens were baptized today which was awesome! As we’re waiting for the service today, i went to Perry’s blog site on my phone and there was Perry and Lucretia standing next to Mickey and Minnie and yet… many, many prayed to receive Christ- it’s got to be incredibly freeing for Perry to know in very tangible ways that God is God doing God’s work!
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VERY COOL!
Hey Tony – I’m the guy who made the 8000th comment on your blog the other day. Anyway, after preaching at our two worship services yesterday morning, I traveled 3 hours with 7 people from our church and visited Newspring for the first time. What an awesome experience!
Don’t worry about posting this comment if you don’t want to; however, I did want to give you a link to my blog post I put up today about my Newspring experience.
Here ya go:
http://palmettorev.blogspot.com/2009/01/visit-to-newspring-church.html
Thanks for an awesome day yesterday!
Blessings, Tony!
Great stuff… I had a great time on there…
Congrats! I agree numbers do matter! We had a great discussion about this very thing in my Adult Sunday School this week! We decided obedience to Jesus is above all important!
650 people accepting Christ in 1 month? Now I’m curious… :D