Long Hollow White House Campus Blog

It kind of feels like Beatle-mania right?  I mean David is coming to White House to do our first New Comers live!!!  AHHHH!!!  

Instead though we are going to push the New Comers in White House back to September 14th.  I had announced last week that we were going to have the class on the 17th but no, and the anticipation builds.  This way we will have a little more time to figure out who’s coming and let folks get a better taste of who we are.

Seriously though, if you are seeking membership at Long Hollow Baptist Church or want to learn more about what that entails, please let us know by calling the church office at 824-4006, signing up at a host desk this Sunday, or emailing me at ben.heile@longhollow.com.  For clarification, if you are a member of Long Hollow, you are a member at all three campuses because we are one church. Please don’t try and join again because you are coming with us to WH.  Keep me up to date with questions or comments with an email, call or letter. 

Much love,

Ben

…come right in and have some pizza.  Truly a day of firsts, yesterday was also our first youth service! 

The White House youth, along with a healthy dose of our Hendersonville faithful, met at the H. B. Williams Elementary school last night to officially begin our youth activities.  We had Lovingood himself come and give an excellent sermon on Peter getting out of the boat to meet Jesus on the water.  With his unique flair and discerning leadership, Jeff taught us that we have to have the faith to get out of the boat to meet our Lord.  The message hit me right between the eyes as I really needed to remember and be freshly encouraged to step up my efforts to follow our Lord.  It’s not about doing what Jeff, John, Travis, David, the Easter Bunny, Condoleezza Rice or anyone else says, it’s about following where the Lord has led us, and when we do, miracles happen.

I’m pumped about next week, to hear about what God has done with our students this first week of school and to see the miracles that resulted.  If you have or are a youth (in 6th-12th grade) come out next Sunday night at 6:30 and see what all is going on.  I know you will be blessed.

For any more info email me at ben.heile@longhollow.com. 

Ben

Yesterday we jumped!  We had been walking ever closer to this cliff for the last couple of months and yesterday was the official first day of the White House Campus!!!  Could we have asked for anything more from God?  To my knowledge, things went off without too many problems.  The services went fairly smoothly, set-up was faster than ever and we had so many guests!  Officially we had 314 people come into the auditorium across the two services and I’m still waiting to see how many kids we had.  Numbers don’t mean much till you consider that they are lives that were confronted with the gospel.  Then they jump off the page!  God is building His local church!

I don’t know of too many people who are more involved in the campus then myself, well because its my job.  I think White House all day every day and am at everything we do.  That being said, I have absolutely no idea how everything worked other than to give God all the glory.  I would love to attribute Sunday to all of the long hours of our volunteers, all of the faithfulness of our membership to invite people, the incredible gifting of David or even the jedi-like wisdom of our executive pastor Lance Taylor, but I can’t.  God did it and He gets all the glory.  I can’t wait to see what hapens next…

As always, and especially now that we are officially under way, please let me know if there is anything at all that we can work on, tweak, or explain.  The best way to do that is to email me at ben.heile@longhollow.com.

Your befuddled coordinator,

Ben