Doing Life Together

We broke ground last night on our new Hendersonville Campus Student Building. To see a floor plan of this building click here. A building doesn’t change lives, but it’s certainly a tool that we can use to that end. Our students have been at Beech High School going on 8 years now. We are grateful for Beech’s willingness to let us use their facility, and for the flexibility of our students and student workers. In fact, our student ministry has been so incredible in their attitude about being off campus!

However, we are past due on our students having a place to call home. It’s time to get them back on campus and have a facility that will meet the demands of a growing student ministry.

I can’t wait to see all God does through our student ministry in this facility in the days ahead. Thank you Long Hollow for your love for students and the vision for this new facility!!

Don’t forget, part of your Crazy Love gifts are making this building possible. Please be as generous as you can in your contributions to Crazy Love.

Here we go! Great days are ahead!

Hey folks! How about this cooler weather?! We’re only a week and half from the start of the college football season. Can I get an amen?

Here’s some news you can use:

Crazy Love Offering 4

We had a good response last Sunday, but we still have a ways to go to reach our goal for offering 4. We are at 54% of our goal. If you haven’t given please pray about your gift. You can give online now or bring your offering Sunday. Watch a video about the importance of offering 4 here. We can do this if we follow the Lord’s leadership and everyone does their part!

Men’s Fraternity

Guys – Men’s Fraternity starts back on September 8th. We will have morning and evening sessions. Make plans to attend!

Crazy Love Commitment

How are you doing on your Crazy Love Commitments? There are helps for praying and reading the Bible on crazylovecampaign.com. Also, Resource Central has a number of Bibles that are designed to read through in a year. You’ve made some significant commitments and they will raise the spiritual temperature of your life. Stay with it! Learn more about the Crazy Love Commitment here.

Pastor’s Prayer Partners

Thank you to all of you who have signed up to be one of my Pastor’s Prayer Partners. I will be sending you some stuff soon via e-mail. If you would like to sign up to be a Pastor’s Prayer Partner e-mail us at pastor@longhollow.com.

Consider today the words of the Psalmist,

Give thanks to the LORD, call on His name;
make known among the nations what He has done.

Sing to Him, sing praise to Him;
tell of His wonderful acts.

Glory in His holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Look to the LORD and His strength;
seek His face always. (Psalm 105:1-4)

These are good verses to meditate on. I need to remind myself often to look to the Lord and His strength instead of my own. Have you called upon His name today? If not, find some time to do that and thank Him for His many blessings to you.

I hope you have a great week! I look forward to seeing you this weekend!

I love you folks!

In Christ,

Read the full breakdown of Offering #4 at crazylovecampaign.com and give online now!

Check out this list from The Tennessean:

How the Class of 2014 Sees the World

Hello everybody! I hope your week is going well. This is hump day – you can make it!

Here’s a few updates:

Saturday Night

Our Saturday Night Service is going strong! If you haven’t tried Saturday night at Long Hollow, come check it out this week. Some advantages of Saturday Night Worship are less traffic, more parking, sleeping in on Sundays, more music, and a Q&A about the sermon. I think you will enjoy it and at the same time you will help us have more room for guests on Sunday. This Saturday night we’re having a watermelon fellowship after the service. Amen?

Need More VIP Parkers

I want to encourage all campuses to leave parking for guests by parking as far away from the building as possible. In Hendersonville, we need more folks to park at the school and ride the bus. This weekend make every effort to leave room for those who will be visiting.

Crazy Love Offering

Crazy Love offering #4 is this Sunday. Have you prayed about what you will give? The goal is $650,000.00 and the family goal is $400.00. By God’s grace we can hit our goal, if everyone will contribute. Everybody bring something and let’s knock this out this weekend. You can also give online here. To see video of some of the places we will be using this offering for, click here.

That’s it for today! Here’s a good verse for Wednesday:

Rejoice in the LORD, you who are righteous, and praise his holy name (Psalm 97:12).

I love you folks! See ya this weekend!

In Christ,