We had a really wonderful Sunday gathering at Inner Metro Green yesterday. 65+ people gathered for music, sharing, and learning. We have a very difficult time getting everyone who is involved with our community to show up on the same Sunday. I think our late meeting time may have something to do with it. We don’t actually start our Sunday service until 11:15AM. That’s the one negative of sharing a church space with another congregation, I suppose. If everyone would show up at the same time, for the same service, on a Sunday morning, that would be awesome! And if there was one Sunday when I really hoped this would happen, next Sunday would be it! Why? Because the IMG board is going to be distributing a multi-page community survey to everyone who is a part of our community. This community survey is important! Megan Flinchbaugh personally invested a lot of time into this very thorough survey. The goal? We want to hear from all of you! In fact, we need to hear from all of you! What would you like to see in the community? What – if anything – would you like to do? How are we doing with what we are doing right now? Questions like this – and many more – will be asked next Sunday. Megan will be distributing the surveys at the end of our regular service. It’ll take about 10-15 minutes to complete, so we will be sure to tighten up the time we use for our regular service to make time for the survey completion at the end of the service. If there was one Sunday when we needed all of you to show up at the same time, this Sunday is it!
So, come out Sunday morning and join us in community and help us shape the future of IMG!
This past Sunday’s service is available below, for your consumption. We finally figured out how to record directly from our sound board, thanks to Dean Martin, our tech/media fellow. So, the quality of the recordings from this point forward will be much better than those of the past. I still, however, need to learn how to hold the microphone when I’m speaking. Some parts of my sermon are really quiet because I tend to talk with my hands and move the microphone away from me without realizing it. Mea Culpa. I will learn to keep the mike still! At any rate, I decided to publish most of our service, instead of just a song and my sermon, since we can now record the entire thing. I did edit out the Eucharist part of our service, because we do a lot of joys and concerns sharing during that time. I also edited out offering, because well, you can’t hear anything during that time. Other than that, this is basically what our service is like.
I especially love the closing Lennon by Flinch. Awesome song.
Big thanks to Chris Flinchbaugh and Brandon Seawell for the morning’s music. Keith Slesser is the guy opening with prayer, announcements and a reading (he’s usually leading/participating in music, but he and his wife just had a baby this week – full story @ Keith’s blog). Thanks to Dean Martin for all his tech/media work for the morning. Your presence makes a huge difference, Dean! Oh yeah, I’m the morning’s speaker who keeps moving the microphone.
NOTE: An edited version of the sermon will be made available at the IMG website soon. This is my own hack job, thank you. Dean will have a much better one up soon. Anyway, push play below.
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