Sunday Wrap-up: The Big Announcement Edition

• Pictures of today will be uploaded tomorrow…some great pictures, especially from the Baptism at the Bay.
• We baptized around a dozen people.  It poured rain on the last four people.  They were baptized by immersion and sprinkling.  So, I guess they’re double covered.
• Chris and Ritz have made it back from the Beach and have their wrap-ups finished.
• I really enjoyed today.  Habakkuk was a great series.
• The three services have really started to feel normal and comfortable.
• I feel like I’m able to connect with more people as well.
• I also got to share our BIG NEWS three times.  What is it?
• We have a second location!
• On Thursday, we were given the keys to a church and a house on Plantation Key in Islamorada, the Village of Islands (mile marker 90.5)!…one of the most beautiful places on the planet as you can see by the pic I snapped off during dinner Friday night.
• It’s a really great place and property, with a ton of potential.
• We’ll shoot some pictures tomorrow and post them up.  In the meantime, there’s one picture of the south wing and main auditorium, which seats about 170-200 people.
• Our staff will be meeting there tomorrow and beginning the work of laying out a plan for that campus, including getting a campus pastor in place, renovations, and a launch time line.
• We have quite a few families that make the drive up from the Keys for church every Sunday.  This may be a natural fit for them.
• We also have a lot of families from the Keys that come to LPC semi-regularly.
• And, there are a ton of people in the Upper Keys that don’t know Jesus personally…they’re just waiting for a place like Life Pointe to make an introduction and be a community of faith that will help them pursue Jesus in a big way.
• God is ridiculously good. I can’t stop thinking about what might be coming.  I think none of us really have a clue.