Easter weekend; Heaven and Hell!!!

*Front page of the Sunday paper. (not sure what's up with the color of the image)

-Our weekend was completely off the hook...Incredible!

-We let more people know about the "over the top" love of Christ in one weekend then I ever could have imagined. Heaven.

-Before I say anything about the egg drop let me say that Sunday was one of the best bigs days we have ever had at the embassy. We didn't do much different then what we do every week. It seems like for us we are at our best week to week. When big days come we end up wearing ourselves out before we start. Not this time. We strategically decided no crazy props this year, no special artists, features, elements etc. Oh we had pictures for families, and balloons and candy for the kids, but if you visited this week you experienced us as we are. This doesn't mean that we won't have a big day ever again with a huge city scape stage set-up, football goal posts, or any of the other crazy ideas we have done. This week we just wanted to be sure we had time and focus spent with our guests and fellow emc-ers. Heaven

-Sunday went so smooth and thank God because as you'll read on you'll see how nuts Saturday was. We had a bunch of guests from all walks of life. I love the diversity that is embassy. Polo wearing IT guys standing talking to tattooed twenty somethings. Business ladies serving along side of domestic goddesses. I loved that I got to spend this weekend with Biker Bob, Rocker Russ, and Ex-stoner Ed...combined hair length 7 ft...opportunity to be their pastor=priceless!!! I can't wait to see many of our guests come back next Sunday. We loved having you and look forward to you being a part of our community of faith, love, and acceptance. Heaven.

-We had over a dozen people commit their lives to Christ yesterday. Praise God! Heaven.



OK Now let's talk about the egg drop:


-Over *5000 people came to Woodstock's Largest Easter Event. I could not have been more proud of all of our volunteers. Yeah you got pushed, cussed, and treated pretty badly by a lot of unruly parents, but you maintained your desire to show people Christ's love and I thank you. Heaven and Hell. (*Being told by a couple sources who are experienced with big crowds that the event had between 5000 and 8000 people in attendance. I hate to elevate numbers. We can with confidence say over 5,000 people. I am so blown away)

-The parents were crazy one lady was helping her 17 year old gather 200 eggs in a garbage bag. Ok the 17 year old part is a lie, but literally a parent was flat out fillin her kids garbage bag up while acting like she didn't hear the closest field attendant's attempt to stop her. Hell.

-To be honest it was, insane, messy, frustrating, and awesome all at once.
Woodstock get ready for next year. We will find a location that will work for this event. We will have at a minimum 100,000 eggs. The event will be a few hours long with
jump houses and tons of activities. We will figure out a away to keep parents from acting like two year olds. And our field attendants will have Tazers!!!

-To be honest a few bags of eggs didn't make it out of the helicopter. We had those rushed to the field. Every kid that hung around got eggs. We also had prizes left over after the prize eggs were redeemed. So we were able to give most of the "eggless" kids something to go home with.

-Woodstock: Give us another chance on this one. We planned, prepared, prayed, and worked our butts off. In the end we just never knew. Well, we know now and get ready because The Woodstock Egg Drop 09 will be one of the largest gatherings of any kind in Woodstock History. Heaven and Hell.

-Woodstock: We love you, God Loves you, and We hope to see you at Embassy Metro Church this Sunday at the Cherokee 16 Cinemas 10:02am. Heaven.