Arrived in Nashville for the National Collegiate Summit. Great trip with 2 guys whose 2 favorite drinks are coffee & Mt Dew!

I'm excited about the possibility of designing/leading an area wide 'D-Now'! What would be some of your ideas? Get creative...let me know!

It amazes me how northerners think that 80 degrees is hot and 85 is unbearable! One summer in the delta would cook their crawfish...just sayin!

Great evening at H2O...then got to enjoy Uncle Mike's Ice Cream! It's so nice to enjoy springtime in Ohio! Finals week @ TU...pray with us!

Text Ministry....

This past Thursday, we tried something brand new at H2O. And it worked! Just before our Worship Gatherings 'officially' start, we have a 3 minute countdown that plays on our screen. Normally, we take those 3 minutes to get to know someone in attendance that we 'normally' don't hang out with. That, in and of itself is amazing...it truly creates community! However, this past week, I really felt like we needed to do something really creative!

Here's what we did....

In those 3 minutes, I asked all of our students who have texting on their phones, (duh, that's an overwhelming majority!) to text their friends or family members and encourage them in some way. Whether it's a 'hope ur havin a good day' or 'i'm prayin for u' or 'just thinkin about u' to literally whatever they could come up with to encourage others. The only clause to this project, was that you couldn't text anyone who was in attendance at H2O. Sounds simple...

In three minutes, we successfully encouraged 83 people, simply by text.

Yep, we're gonna do it again.....