Sunday Night Release

Today at LifePoint was great!
We finished up our series on Lost with Lost and Found!
We battled sub zero temperatures!
The sound system is stinkin sweet!
Panera bagels in the morning always hits the spot!
Kim your doing a great job with the cafe!
Had a spot light on me today, a little weird at first, but worked through it!
Had a small crowd today, not our smallest, and definitely not our biggest!
Had the opportunity today to see a miracle!
Bi'Ri sweet opening on Enough by Jeremy Camp loved it!
Band was smooth was cool seeing you all get into what you were playing!
God is a God of miracles and He performed another one right before my eyes!
Love seeing the kids come out of KidsLife all charged with big smiles on their faces!
I think my feet turned numb about half way through the service!
Really I think they did!
Shan is on his way to Chicago, pray for no deers to be in the way!
Decorated the Christmas tree today, that was fun!
Went to Walmart three times today in a matter of two hours, the lights we bought, only half of them worked per strand!
God was teaching me patience!
Watched Elf tonight with the family, it's a Christmas classic, I laughed really hard!
Ate pumpkin pie!
The worship leaders did a great job!
You are probably asking what the miracle was that happened today!
I hope it snows soon!
Drum roll please..................!
Another life transformed by the power of the Gospel today at LifePoint!
I hope right now your celebrating this miracle! Whoo Hooo!
Have a good night and a better tomorrow!
I'm out!

Finding Nemo

I love the movie Finding Nemo. I would have to say it's one of my favorites. Today at LifePoint we finished up our Lost Series with Lost and Found. So anyways I was always wondering what happened to Nemo. So I went looking. And this is what I found. Have a great day.

Kickin Back

Man it's Black Friday already, can't believe how fast time has went by. No shopping for me today, just kickin back relaxin! No kids, just Kendra and I :o) Curious on what everyone does on the day after Thanksgiving? Look forward to reading your comments! See ya!

I'm Thankful! Are you?

Psalm 136:1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love is eternal.
Are you thankful? Do you take time to give thanks? Maybe you are but haven't taken the time to do so, well take a minute today and tell God what your thankful for. And don't forget we praise Him when we win and we praise Him when we lose. As you sit down to scarf down your thanksgiving feast think about what your thankful for. God has given us so much and sometimes we get busy and forget to tell Him how much we are thankful. And maybe go one step further and tell someone close to you or maybe far from you why you are thankful for them.
Here is what I'm thankful for:
My relationship with Jesus
My wife ( she's hot)
My children
My extended family
Struggles
Heartache
Friends
LifePoint Community Church
United States of America
Freedom
U.S. Military
God's provision
My house
Heat
Electric
Diet Mountain Dew
My van
Clothes
People
Memories of years past
Making memories

So there you have it, just a few things that I'm thankful for. If you have any that you would like to share please do so.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!! Gobble Gobble:o)

Give A Shout Out!!!!

Wow what a week! God is doing tremendous things at LifePoint and around LifePoint. He is all about what we are doing, and His hands are all over it. Philippians 4:19 says " And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus". There are many times that we don't believe this promise that God gives us. Either we don't have enough patience to wait or we try and do it ourselves to fill our needs. I was reminded this week that God fulfills His promises. Let me just sum up this week for you. #1 God gave us a $10,000 sound and lighting system! #2 God gave us $3,000 to get some odds and ends for sound! #3 God gave us $2,000 for Bibles and Case for Christ books! #4 God gave $10,000 to a ministry really close to us! #5 Many people made decisions Sunday, dealing with being ashamed! #6 LifePoint is feeding five families for Thanksgiving, great job everyone!
Again, wow what a week! Psalm 66 1-3 says " Shout joyfully to God, all the earth! Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious. Say to God, " How awe-inspiring are Your works! Your enemies will cringe before You, because of Your great strength.
Will you join me in giving a shout out to God for His greatness, His faithfulness, and anything else you can think of? He truly is amazing!!!

Gobble Gobble

I'm really excited about this Christmas season for a number of reasons. But the #1 reason why I'm so excited is because LifePoint gets to serve and give in the life of five families. We have been given five names of families who are just going through a tough time. And are having difficulty finding any joy in the upcoming days. So we are going to start with Thanksgiving and provide to these families a full thanksgiving dinner that we will drop off at their homes on Sunday afternoon. The cool thing about this is that we aren't going to just drop food off and tell them to have a great day. We, as a church have a desire to build relationships with these families that we pray will be long lasting. We want to know how we can pray for them, and how we can help them. The bible talks about having compassion for people, the definition for compassion is seeing a need and having the desire to alleviate it. That is what we want to do, see the way Jesus sees, so that we can have compassion for the people around us and be able to help alleviate those needs. See it's all about being the church not just doing church. Showing people the love of Jesus yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I just can't wait to see what God is going to do through this.
And to all of you at LifePoint, thanks for stepping up and providing food you all are awesome!!!
P.S. I can't wait to see what your going to do for Christmas:0)

Speechless Again!

Well once again I found myself speechless. God once again showed me how little faith that I have. Let me give you some background. For quite sometime now we have been searching and praying for a sound system for LifePoint. In the mean time we have been using a borrowed system, that has gotten us by, but every week it seems to be slowly going out. Last Sunday as I was standing in the front row I could barely hear the singers. I went back to check with the sound guy and he pointed to the sound board indicating that everything was turned up all the way. To say the least I was a little frustrated. So this week I really started searching high and low for a system that would fit our needs. On Monday I received a call from a guy in our church who plays in our band and he said he heard about a guy that has a sound system and he wants to sell it. So I'm like cool I'll call him and go look at it. So on Wednesday night I drove out to see what this guy had to offer. He not only had a sound system, but he also had a lighting system that he wanted to sell. And I'm talking a complete set, everything that we need all sitting at this guys house. So I asked, "How much?" He said he would sell everything for $2,500! So at this point, without showing my excitement, shouted we'll take it! So now your thinking we bought the system and lived happily ever after, well if you are then your wrong. He started to second guess himself in wanting to sell it. So as I left I just told him to talk it over with his wife and pray about what he wants to do. And I will call him tomorrow.
So I my way home that night I prayed that God would work in this mans heart and that he would want to sell the system to LifePoint. Oh and also that somehow God would give us the $2,500 needed to buy it. Oh yeh, we didn't have the money:o) Called some people asked them to pray about the situation, Kendra and I prayed then went to bed.
On Thursday I started calling around to see if there was some money laying around somewhere that someone would like to give LP just in case this guy wanted to sell the system. Around 4:00pm on Thursday I called and left a message, at 5:00pm he called back. He said" Kevin after much prayer and talking with my wife we have decided to give you the sound and lighting system". I'm like great! (now thinking where am I going to get the money to pay this guy tonight?) Then he said again" yeh we are going to just give you the system. I'm like what did you just say? He said you can have the system we are giving it to you no cost. FREE!!! At that point it finally sunk in and I started to cry, then I said to him, if you were in front of me right now I would kiss you! I think he got a little scared. LOL I was in the car with Shan and I was literally speechless. Everything we picked up tonight is worth at least $10,000. Man I still can't believe it.
So once again God showed me He is a BIG God, and there is nothing that He can not do! The question is, when am I going to realize it!
All of this just shows me that God has Big things planned for LifePoint and He is committed to transforming this community that He has put us in!
Do me a favor today, thank God for His goodness!

Climbing Mount Everest (LifePoint)

The first attempts to reach the summit of Mount Everest began in the early 1920’s with the opening of the Tibetan route. Over the next thirty or so years, eight attempts were made on the Northeast Ridge and three on the Southeast Ridge. The combination of thin air, extreme temperatures and high altitude brought failure to each successive attempt.On May 29th, 1953 that man - Edmund Percival Hillary - and his companion, Tensing Norgay, achieved the seeming impossible – they climbed Mount Everest. The 34 year old kiwi and the 38 year old Nepalese Sherpa guide leader conquered the world’s tallest mountain after a slow climb at less than three steps per minute up the final three hundred yards from their last Camp. This final climb to the top had defeated seven other expeditions.

Every time I read this story I get really excited, two men, Hillary and Tensing achieved what many people before them had attempted and failed. And I'm sure there were many people who were on the sidelines, were telling these two men that they couldn't do do it either, but they had a vision to climb Mount Everest, and there was nothing that was going to get in their way. Not people telling them they couldn't, not the weather, not their physical bodies, and not the hard work that it would take. Their focus was on nothing but the vision of reaching the top of Mount Everest. And with that vision their goal was hit!

We are in the tenth month of our vision at LifePoint, with many months and years to come. There has been some good times, there has been some tough times, but through it all God has shown Himself mighty! At our official launch on October 5th we had 121 people in attendance. That was awesome and very encouraging. We knew though that the next week would really tell us what we were going to have to start with. And that next week following the launch we had 65 people in attendance. Now we had a starting point. Every week since then we have increased in attendance, with this last week having 97 in attendance. Man God is good. He is faithfully bringing the people who He wants to be at LifePoint. If you count the 3 preview services along with the services since our launch we have had nine services. What can God do in a new church? What can God do when people focus on the vision? What can God do through LifePoint? Well let me tell you what He has done. Twelve people giving their lives to Christ, every week numerous people making decisions of re-dedication, people crying out for help, people asking God to give them victory in areas of their lives like, money, family, loneliness, and fears. God has touched the hearts of people to give food to families in need, to cut grass, clean gutters, trim trees, and rake leaves. God is bringing a group of people together who say it doesn't matter what you look like, what you wear, how many tattoos, how many piercings you have, how much money you have, where you came from, and how you got here. God loves you and so do we. He is bringing people together from all over the community that want to make a difference, to put unity back into community, to love people know matter what, and to make it hard to get to hell from Findlay, Ohio. That is what God has done. And the great thing about it is He is just starting.

I love this quote by Hillary: "He wrote of the pair's final steps to the top of the world: "Another few weary steps and there was nothing above us but the sky. There was no false cornice, no final pinnacle. We were standing together on the summit. There was enough space for about six people. We had conquered Everest."

At LifePoint we are well on our way to the Summit, with our focus on the vision and God as our guide we will make it. And when we reach the summit there won't just be two people standing there, but there will be thousands.