Last year at the first Management Team meeting following Easter Pastor Brent said that he didn't think we had done enough as a church to celebrate Easter. We spent the next few Management Team meetings talking about what we could do differently for Easter 2009 to introduce Calgarians to Jesus and celebrate what Jesus did for us. Well it's Easter Sunday afternoon and I feel like we did what we set out to do and I believe Jesus is please.
We had 3 Good Friday services, one at each site. I've heard good things about these services. I have to admit that I wasn't at any of these services. I spent the morning with my family and reading some of Vintage Jesus by Mark Driscoll, appropriately enough on why Jesus had to die for us.
We had a Family Fun Fest at Canada Olympic Park. My oldest daughter and I helped out, while my two little ones and Britton enjoyed the events. There were a tonne of people in attendance. And, the best part was that I didn't recognize a lot of them! At one point Pastor Rowena came over all excited because there were non-RockPointers coming through the door. Pastor Ron and I worked on game together and there were a bunch of people that neither of us knew.
On Sunday in our Easter services our three Site Pastors preached and then we had baptisms. My family and I attended Bowridge and heard Ron preach a great sermon. We then had 4 spontaneous baptisms, people who came forward during the service asking to be baptized. The very cool thing was that second person to be baptized actually came to know Jesus this morning during the service! Wow! What an amazing way to end a service with 1 person deciding to follow Jesus and 3 other people declaring to the world that Jesus is their King.
I'm sure we could still do more, but I feel good about this weekend, because Calgarians saw that the Church is a fun place and for families and because people came to know Jesus as their saviour and King. Well done RockPointe!
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