Weekend Rewind

This weekend was great in many ways.

First, we have a special guest, Dr. Mark Wootton share with us. He started Saturday night with a special session for our leadership team. He talked about leadership principals. Then he spoke on Sunday morning about the important themes of Pentecost, the harvest and meeting a holy God. Check out this great message on our audio page at www.firstagwasghington.org. Then on Sunday afternoon he did a two hour seminar on the understanding the four gospels. It was like gathering mana in the desert.

Second, having Mark and his wife Joy at church was literally having a fresh set of eyes to look at our church. I love getting input from people outside our church about the things that I might be taking for granted.

Third, Sunday was a new record attendance for a regular Sunday morning attendance. There were 173 of us there Sunday. That is only 16 less than Easter last year. Now, here is the scary thing. We are working on a new way to follow attendance, we have been keeping attendance on paper for years. You would think our church management software would do one of the most important tasks in church, take attendance. It will not. We are looking for new software this year. Now that we have changed our attendance tracking process, we have learned that 270 different people have attended our church since January. That means a lot of people who call our church their church home attend sporadically. We must connect better. It also means that we are going to have to get serious about what to do this Easter Sunday so that we have room for everyone.