Our Biggest Dinner!

This past Friday night we had our biggest dinner. All during the week leading up to Friday I felt like we were going to have a huge turnout. As usual, the team has been coming to the house about an hour early to pray, prepare the food, and set up. Pedro had the idea of getting a few more tables and lining them up. We had three big tables lined up from end to end. We had about 28 chairs. We everybody started showing up I knew we wouldn’t have enough chairs so I stood the whole time along with a few people from the team. We thought there was a possibility of running low on food but several people brought desserts (My neighbor Jimmy came over and brought his blueberry cobbler), salads, and Italian meats (from Enza’s Italian restaurant). By the end of the night we had 34 people who attended the dinner and 12 of them were first-time guests! It was our biggest turnout with a few regulars who were missing which we could have easily had 40 people. I am thankful for a team who is willing to go out and invite people to come. It was awesome to see people conversing, playing corn hole, and hanging out around the fire. This presents a good problem to have. If we were rained out there would have been no way to fit everybody in the house. We might need to move the dinners to a bigger space when it rains etc. Please pray for guidance in this area. We are talking about having our launch service in January of 09. Please pray for space, ministry leaders, worship leaders, and more members added to our launch team.