Church Grateful

I woke up groggy and grumpy this morning. The night was just too short. These are the kind of days where I feel so dangerous that I should just turn myself into the police before I hurt someone.

This voice inside my soul told me that I could nuke the universe today or I could choose to be grateful. I have willed myself, by God’s grace, to do the later. I have been doing this all morning and it is literally changing my body. The venti coffee I am drinking is pretty helpful also. Thank God for coffee beans.

So, let me be grateful out loud for a few moments. I am grateful that…

• Close to 50% of those attending our worship gatherings have also served in one of our service projects.
• We have this wonderful spirit of love and community that is pervading our Denver church.
• A bunch of volunteers were treated to a box at the Pepsi center to watch the Nuggets recently.
• We have 50 kids in our children and student ministries. Approximately 25% of these kids have served in one of our service projects.
• God is providing 20 leaders to help us launch all kinds of small communities within our church for the purpose of spiritual formation. I am so psyched about this!
• Two couples in our church have helped some homeless guys get off the streets and have helped them find financial assistance. Very cool.
• We have a prayer team working behind the scenes made up of some of the most spiritually mature people in the city and nation.
• God is bringing some older more seasoned, grey haired Christians into our community to help us equip the other generations among us.
• We have some highly dedicated volunteers building websites and databases and loving on kids and organizing service projects and making everything work. What would we do with out them? I can’t stop thanking God for these amazing people.

I am also grateful that we will be serving a significant number of homeless people tomorrow at our homeless chili cook off. I hope to see you at 1:30 in the parking lot of Church in the City. For more details check out the home page of our website www.restorationcc.us.