Doing Life Together

In yesterdays sermon, I shared some helpful links for ways to serve and an online spiritual gifts assessment test.  Below you’ll find those links, just in case you missed one of them!

Online spiritual gifts test: www.longhollow.com/spiritualgifts

Ways to serve in your home: www.longhollow.com/homelink

Ways to serve in the church:
www.longhollow.com/serve – Also, there will be a Servelink this coming Sunday, May 20th at the Hendersonville Campus at 9:00 and 10:30 in the Chapel.  For more info please contact Amanda Humphrey at 824-4006 ext 133, or you can email her at amanda.humphrey@longhollow.com.

Ways to serve in the community:

www.longhollow.com/golocal – for local service projects.  A great way to serve as an individual or with your family or even as a connect group!

www.facebook.com/longhollowgo - for immediate / emergency needs and updated listings of local and international mission trips.  You can also follow longhollowgo on twitter:  twitter.com/longhollowgo

When I was growing up, my family had 2-3 cars. One was fairly new – nothing extravagant – but pretty nice. We usually had a truck of some kind. But the constant in a our fleet of vehicles was a four door, aqua blue, 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 my dad had bought brand new. It was his pride and joy. The thing was built like a tank. You could sit 4 across the front and back seats.

I’m sure it was a really nice car in the 60’s. However, by the time I was a middle schooler I thought it was really uncool. I would ask my parents not to pick me up in it. It embarrassed me to be seen in it.

But something happened that changed my perspective. As I approached my 16th birthday, my dad informed me that this would be my “ride.” All of a sudden it became the most beautiful car in the world. I was so glad to be able to drive anything that all my previous embarrassment disappeared. I can still remember hauling a bunch of my buddies around town – the AM radio cranking out Foreigner or Kool & The Gang or Bosephus!

It was all a matter of perspective.

In life, often times the key to happiness is how we look at things. If we look at things from God’s perspective we get the true picture of how things really are or ought to be.

Do you need to change your perspective on something in your life?

Hello everyone! Here’s a quick update:

Man Up
We had 2,020 guys attend our Man Up conference! That’s a lot of men in one place God is at work in our Men’s Ministry! May is “man month” at Long Hollow. Click here for a list of Man Up classes offered on Wednesday nights in May.

Summer Camps
Our camps are filling up fast for children through high schoolers. Camp is a tremendous catalyst for our young people in their spiritual journey. Sign your kid up today! Click here for ages, dates and locations.

Celebrate Recovery
We celebrated the 7 year anniversary of Celebrate Recovery this past Monday night. It was an incredible evening of worship, testimony and fellowship. This ministry is making a huge difference in so many lives! If you or someone you know is struggling with a hurt, habit or hang up check out this link on how Celebrate Recovery can help.

Keep It Up
Our giving has been very good this budget year. Thank you for your generosity! May is an important month for us financially. As we head into the summer when attendance is affected by vacations, it’s important that we have a good month to stay current on our budget needs. The summer is full of events that have great impact – camps, VBS, mission trips, etc. Let’s be generous in our giving these next few weeks. Of course, if you have to miss you can give on-line here.

That’s it for now! Stay fired up!

In Christ,

Remember “Opposite Day” at school? That was always a fun day!

In the Kingdom we live “Opposite Day” every day. The world operates one way and Jesus taught us that Kingdom thinking is often times the exact opposite.

For instance:

To live you must die…

To be first you must be last…

To be great you must be a slave…

To receive you must give…

The ways of man and the ways of God are not the same.  That’s something we need to be careful not to forget.

Hello everyone! Have you thought today about how much God loves you!? He has no reason to – but He does.

Here’s 3 things I want you to know:

Giving Has Been Good
Thanks for your generosity! Our giving has been good, but let’s keep it up. The 2012 budget is a strategic plan to impact our world. When you give at Long Hollow you are doing several things.

• First, you recognize God’s ownership of everything and that you are just His money manager.
• Second, you break the stranglehold of materialism in your life.
• Third, you store up treasure in heaven.
• Fourth, you position yourself for God’s blessing. God really does bless those who give generously in all kinds of cool ways.
• Fifth, you fund the spread of the gospel. Your gifts go toward telling a lost world about Jesus.
• And sixth, you help minister to people with all sorts of needs.

As you can see – good stuff happens when God’s people are obedient and give generously!

Find out more about on-line giving here.

Man Up Conference
Guys, make plans to attend our Man Up Men’s Conference on Sunday night, April 29th in the Hendersonville worship center. A man’s impact is so strategic in his family, his church, his work, and his community. We’re going to talk about how to step up to this responsibility instead of shrinking back. I can guarantee you men that the enemy doesn’t want you to come. Let’s man up and fight through the excuses and make plans to be at this very important gathering for men. Click here to find out more and to register.

Jeff Lovingood Celebrates 10 Years at Long Hollow
Jeff Lovingood, our Next Generation Pastor, has just completed his 10th year at Long Hollow. God has really used Jeff these past 10 years. We have been so blessed as a church by all his hard work. He and his wife Rachel have been relentless in investing in the next generation! If you get a chance, offer a word of congratulation to Jeff at jeff.lovingood@longhollow.com or send him a card or hug his neck.

That’s it for today! I love you folks!

In Christ,