Conference Invite/ LIFE?!?!

So, Sara and I have now been invited to join the staff and others from the church to go to ARC: All Access. It is a conference up in Clayton, NC that the Association of Related Churches is putting on that is focused on church planting, leadership, and church growth! It's going to ROCK, not to mention a great opportunity to meet other strong church leaders, hear their thoughts on ministry, and spend some time with the amazing staff at Lifepoint Church!
I'm supper pumped about tomorrow, because it will be the first week of normal services(however you may define normal) at the church after Easter. We had over 1200 people show up for 3 different services, and as I said, like 20 people make a life change to follow Christ! With the numbers in the air, that would be nearly 500 visitors, many 1st time visitors, and crucial family members of some of the attenders, pray for the church, because instead of having just 700, we may be pushing those numbers again and only having 2 services! Thank God for the volunteers at the church, I've never seen a group of people desire to serve harder than these people! Lifepoint has given them an opportunity to meet with, understand, and develop a relationship with God, and now they are taking that amazing relationship, and doing whatever it takes to reach those around them! It is awesome to hear people asking us to pray for their family members to come to church...WE'VE BEEN HERE 5 WEEKS... and even asking us to pray that they would see major change in these peoples lives!
The opportunities that have opened for us are amazing, and that is one of the things that has been able to keep our spirits up! With not very much luck when it comes to jobs, its hard to understand what God is doing when we are trying to figure out where the money is coming from, but we know it'll be provided! Just an encouragement, when it seems like everything is just crap...think about how awesome it is to have family and friends around us that care...that's what's keeping us up, and a God that is doing something so much greater than a stinkin job...I pray that we'll be used in any way possible! As the staff tends to say, we look forward to doing whatever it takes, doing Anything short of sin to reach people! What I'm learning is that God doesn't need a job to supply us with what we need, but that doesn't mean I'm completely reliant on that!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE A FULL TIME JOB!!! I'll regret saying that someday!
So I'm ranting/rambling a bit, but things a quite interesting around here. I'll try to update more often, as often as I can, as requested! Thanks for the support and prayers, love you all

It's unreal!

I keep feeling like starting these blog post with, "you won't believe this" or "So, It's been NUTS!" Pretty much a constant feeling right now. We have now joined a church here in Wilmington called Lifepoint Church...talked about it in the last blog or two, but we ARE were God wants us to be, no doubt! We joined last Sunday the 5th, and we've been going since! I have a tendency to kinda gravitate towards the leadership in any church that we are involved in, I'm guessing that has something to do with God calling me to Ministry! We've had the awesome privilege to hang out with the staff, their family's and other awesome volunteers throughout the past couple weeks, and it has really been amazing! We've gotten to be a part of stuff that you can only explain by using the word GOD! Saturday, the church put on a completely free event for the city of Wilmington...a HELICOPTER EGG DROP! It was CRAZY, check this out, and here are some pictures! In talking with Pastor Jeff and the others, they expected about 5-6000, 10,000 showed up! Then yesterday the church at 3 services, usually only have two and run a bit over 700...had nearly 1200 show up, 20 decision to follow Christ, and trust me, this church is all about following up on things, as I said, we were contacted 3 times within a few days of attending for the first time, for those of you in ministry, its huge!!! We have truly been blessed through the church already, and we are looking forward to seeing how God is going to use us in the Lifepoint ministry! We are pumped beyond belief! Be praying for the church and the city of Wilmington, because that is what the church is all about! I feel like this week was 1200, and yeah it was Easter, but I'm thinking they'll be back with friends, so I pray that we're prepared for what God is about to do!

Still looking for jobs, but God is definitely providing! Praise Jesus for that! Love you all, later!

So, where do I start?

Alright, its been about 3 weeks, and things are just nuts! As I said last, we visited PC3, a pretty sweet mega church in the area that is really doing some awesome things! We left the service re-energized and pumped about the way things were going. Then, last Sunday we decided to head down to Lifepoint Church...they meet in Ashley High School in Wilmington, two services, and they're running about 750....3 YEARS OLD!!!! It's crazy...after the service we were introduced to Daryl...the guy I got in contact with over e-mail, who then proceeded to introduce us to Pastor Jeff! You've got to check this church and this guy out! lifepointnow.com and jeffkapusta.com Last night we attended one of their...for lack of a better word..."preview" services at their new Lifepoint Midtown campus across the street from UNCW. It was amazing, it was a total celebration of what God is doing in the church! They baptized like 20 people, and it was completely amazing, the spirit was everywhere!
That's just the half of it! Lifepoint contacted Sara and I 3 times after Sundays service...within 3 days, I'm supposed to meet with the staff for lunch here in the next week or so to give them the low down on us and what God's doing, just got a call from the youth guy at PC3 to meet in two weeks, and both me and Sara start new jobs this next week!

But I want to just give you an idea of how God has been working around us!
-Right after my last blog, I was pulled over by a Wilmington Sheriff's Deputy....talk about WELCOME TO NORTH CAROLINA! He slapped me with a "careless and reckless" ticket with a court date set in May. Come to find out, North Carolina has the strictest traffic laws in the country. Talked with the people at our apartment office to get some info, they hooked me up with a city police officer who lives on sight, he told me that the ticket was bogus, and after calling me back a couple days later, said he would accompany me to court as a character type witness and also gave me a contact to a local pastor he knew in Wilmington and thought it might be a cool connection!!! Just wait, it gets better!
-We decided we would look into getting our cars insured in NC to get all that JAZZ taken care of! Come to find out, the Insurance agent we randomly decided upon is a Christian who asked us where we were going to church, offered to escort us to their churches, and then told us to just pray to see where God would lead us in choosing insurance!?!? WHAT...does that happen?
-Then, today, after going to Best Buy and having Pastor Jeff of Lifepoint holler at us from down the aisle, and talking with him for a bit, and setting up vague lunch plans, we went to get a local bank account, and come to find out, the guy that was helping us was a missionary in Russia for a year after college, has been in ministry, and is now working at the bank and invited us to his church here in Wilmington!

If God's not at work here, I don't know what is going on! We're still waiting for some of the financial situations to pan out, and jobs to line up, but hey, it's going good so far! I'll keep you updated!