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Easter Update

I'm pretty spent and would love to share some of what happened this morning...however; I'm so spent I want to give it the write up it deserves.  So here are some quick facts about our three Easter services:

• Attendance: 1,201 (most ever for Grace Church)
• Salvations: Man...I don't have the numbers of professesions of faith today, but I saw the hands raised and saw the Connect cards.  The third service we had over half the room raise their hands that they had received Christ today.  Seriously...just dumbfounded.  Unbelievable.  I almost couldn't make it through the last song after seeing all those hands raised and people wiping tears from their eyes.  I think many people came back to Christ today and many met Him for the first time.
• The Team: I don't know what to say to all of you.  I was just amazed and am continually amazed at your faithfulness, dedication and service to the Lord.  You people are truly inspiring to me.  Thank you so so much for giving your talents, gifts and hearts to what God has called you to do at Grace.  Seriously...I'm amazed.
• Food: Addie (my wife) and Marie (Super Cool Person of the Week) thank you both for making the food happen.  You both did an INCREDIBLE job.  Thank you Marie for thinking of it!
• Message: Tim...you rocked even after coming home from Nicaragua yesterday.  You da man!

Setlist:

• Amazing Grace (Violin Solo)
• Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
• The Glory of Your Name by Watermark
• Son of God by Starfield
• Here is Our King by David Crowder Band

I'll post a little more later. Drop a note on your thoughts and experiences on Easter.

Later!

Babu

Grace Numbers

It's been since May that I posted attendance numbers.  I thought I'd drop a note on how our attendance has been since our big move back in April.  You can check out the "Grace by the Numbers" category to have a look at the spring numbers.  When we were preparing for a move, other churches told us to expect to double within the first year.  It looks like they were right..and some.  Here's the last two weeks plus one month ago:

• 11/12: 779
• 11/5: 761
• 10/15: 637

Grace Numbers 4/30/06

• Total attendance: 576
• Same week in 2005: 402

Check out the "Grace By the Numbers" category to see the attendance trend during our transition to the new building.

Grace Numbers 4/23/06

What a day!  So many new faces returning after Easter last week.  In the past we've always experienced a jump in attendance on Easter Sunday, but man, it's totally different with a building.  More people seem to attend church in a "building" than they will a school, even on Easter.  At least that seems to have been our experience.  Before we moved to the building we prayed we would have attendance at 600 when we began services.  Looks like God has brought the people! 

By the way, there were approximately 10 professed salvations at last weeks Easter weekend during our services.  VERY COOL!!!  And that's just the folks who turned in a card marking that they committed their life to Christ. That's what it's all about!

• Total Attendance: 609 Update. Total attendance: 621

Check out the "Grace By the Numbers" category to see the attendance trend during our transition to the new building.

Grace Numbers 4/16/06 Easter Sunday

Wow.

• Total attendance 961

To see the trend during our transition to the new facility, check out the "Grace By the Numbers" category.

Grace Numbers 4/9/06

Week 2 in the new building.  Smashing success baby!

• Total attendance 554 We discovered some heads were not counted. New total: 576

Check out the "Grace By the Numbers" category to see the trend over the past couple months.

Grace Numbers 4/2/06 (FIRST SUNDAY)

Our first service in the new building was on this day.  We saw a few families that either left or visited previously and decided to "wait" until the building was completed before making a commitment.  There was NO advertising for this Sunday as far as mailers or anything like that.  We will be running a full 6 page story/advertisement in the KC Star on Sunday, April 9th.  To follow the numbers at Grace during our transition, check out the category "Grace By the Numbers".

• Total Attendance 544

Grace Numbers 3/26/06

Fine' at Blue Valley Middle School.  I heard we had about 30-40 High Schoolers during second service back in the youth.  If we were to go back and add all the students who weren't in either of the worship services, I'll bet we pushed 500 this weekend.

• Total Attendance 466

See you at the new building!

Grace Numbers 3/19/06

Wow!  Just one more Sunday at Blue Valley Middle School.  One more week of set up and break down.  This week we had more people in second service than usual.  Seemed like it anyway.  During the worship there weren't enough chairs for people to sit.  After the music, members of the band were bringing out more chairs from backstage.  What a team!

• Total attendance 475

Grace Numbers 3/12/06

Spring Break was in the air which means attendance was a littler lower than the week before.

• Total attendance 417