Doors open at 6:30pm for the family photo booth (break out your Christmas sweaters!)

Games begin at 6:45pm for cool give-aways and the FUSION event kicks off at 7pm for an evening full of worship, faith building, and more family goodness than can fit in a 24 hour marathon of "A Christmas Story".  In fact, it's guaranteed or your money back!  (Well...it's free..so...you get the idea...)

One:

Jimmy wrapped his series on Baggage.  A great series and one I will be listening to or watching again online.

Two:

UPTOWN wrapped it's series on GRACE: Getting Something Great You Don't Deserve.  It ended with Freez-E-Pops.  No one deserved them.  Right? :)

Three:

TheBLOCK and MiNi CiTy wrapped up learning about "God knows what's best for me!"  Don't we as adults still need to learn that one?!  Hopefully it will sink in with them early on in life.  Think of the impact that could make when they are in school, college, and choosing friends and others in relationships!

Four:

I met a first time guest who was in first grade who told me that (in addition to hearing a Bible story ala "Star Wars" - you had to be there) she learned what Grace was all about.  And she did!

Five:

One of our new kids who has had some hard time adjusting to our environment sans parents took some huge leaps forward!  She didn't jump in and participate (yet!) but let's say she took a few more steps towards the table!  And either way, she got a lot of love and still heard that God knows best!

Six:

Despite a HUGE number of kids in the second hour, our team remained positive, had amazing group time, our kids learned a lot, and our families went home with some new spiritual conversations to have!

Seven:

EXODUS came in for our Journey Students UPRISING.  I met some new students who were unconvinced that they should go and check it out.  I hope they made it, because it sounded great!  I didn't get a chance to make it in, because of 

Eight:

The Connect Party!  The Connect Party is a great way for people to...I don't know...connect?  So many peopel came out to get plugged in to a connect group, triad, life group, class - all for the goal of walking through life with other believers for discipleship.  How cool is that?  I loved even more that several of our Journey Kids Team members were out scouting a group to jump in on.  I also met some brand new people who had just visited that morning and also a few who had never been to Journey before.  How cool is that?!

Nine:

What started as a cloudy weekend, turned sunny.  I have to say (honestly and authentically) that the weather effects my mood sometimes.  Being couped in nearly all day on Saturday because of the Hurricane Tropical Storm Windy/Rain Bringer Irene really drove me batty and set me up for an icky Sunday.  It took a while for that effect to wear off.  A few of my closer friends who can read me well said "Hey - you good?"  I would sigh, and say sure, and I was.  But I'm thankful they helped me keep myself in check!  After all - as this list shows, it was a great day.

And since I've made it to nine, I suppose I should add a number ten?  

Ten:

This one is completely self-absorbed and cheap.  But, I wore one of my few (several) Batman t-shirts and recieved lots of "Nice shirt!" compliments.  As I said, a cheap number ten.  

What was your Sunday highlight?  Add your own number ten!

Over the course of the next few months, I'm hoping to close the gap between that "want to" parents have by helping to equip them even more.  That's one reason I have been excited about September so much.  We have tons of new volunteers and new families joining our already enthusiasitc team and families.  It's exciting to think of the possibiliites we have at impacting our homes so they can impact the community.