Mike Guglielmucci is a fake and a fraud – but what about you?

Okay. So Twitter and blog-world are exploding today with news that the latest church worship celebrity, Mike Guglielmucci of “Healer” fame, has been a total liar, fake and fraud when it comes to his claim of beating life-threatening cancer. His story and the song which is supposedly inspired have been the talk of the worship world for the last month or so – especially with the news that Hillsong had recorded it and were including the song (along with the powerful live video) in their latest release, “This Is Our God.”

Here’s a quick recap of Mike’s story -

• Diagnosed with cancer
• Comes home, sits at the piano and begins singing
• The melody and words of “Healer” pour out in this incredible time of worship

The song was then recorded by Planetshakers on their latest album and apparently caught the ear of the Hillsong folks who decided it would be great for their album. Once the promotion for that record started, Mike’s story was front and centre – including a promotional video that was released with Mike telling the world his story interspersed with shots of him singing the song at the live recording, oxygen tank, nose tubes and all.

So word breaks this morning that none of Mike’s story can be verified. Here are some links -

• Adelaide Now
  “Michael has confirmed that he is not suffering with a terminal illness and is seeking professional help in Adelaide with the support of his family.

  “We are asking our church to pray for the Guglielmucci family during this difficult time.”

• The Australian
  It appears Mr Guglielmucci, who was a pastor with one of Australia’s biggest youth churches, Planetshakers, may even have deceived his own family.

  “This news has come as a great shock to everyone including, it seems, his own wife and family,” Hillsong general manager George Aghajanian said in an email to his congregation yesterday.

Crazy. Idiotic. Foolish. How can someone even DREAM of something like this?? What kind of sick, deranged person lies in their bed at night trying to think of ways to gain fame, notoriety and recognition while perhaps lining their pockets with some extra coin based on sales of a song that might be inspired by such a tragedy?? This is a total disgrace and another black eye on the modern evangelical church.

So. How do we respond? Some say stone him! Some say blacklist him! Some say he just needs a swift kick in the ass! How about you? What do you say?

What do I say?

I don’t know.

Part of me is so tired of this. I’m so tired of trusting people and their stories of God doing amazing things only to be once again disappointed. I’m so tired of having to defend a church that wants to hold these people up based on their lies and deceit. I’m so tired of having to explain to friends why I would even associate myself with an institution that allows people like this to get famous. Nevermind the fact that I’m so tired of an institution that is making these people famous in the first place!

Part of me wants to stand on the rooftops and shout “I AM NOT ONE OF THEM!! I AM NOT ONE OF THOSE LYING, CHEATING JERKS WHO IS SELLING YOU A FALSE GOSPEL!!” I want so bad to distance myself from these idiots and their garbage lies and their cheating ways. I would scratch their name from history and have them never heard from again if it was up to me.

And then I wonder.. What does God say?? What does He think of all of this?

..

Ugh.

Why wouldn’t He turn His back on the whole lot of us and just let us all go down in flames? Why wouldn’t He just give this world a little nudge and send it spinning off in to the darkness of the universe? Why wouldn’t He just hit the cosmic reset button and start this whole damned thing over again?

And all I’m left with as an answer is “grace.” Because of grace. The only reason we are still living and breathing and spending a single moment on this planet is because of grace. God has every right to squash every last one of us and laugh at our stupidity – thinking that we have anything more to offer than Mike or Todd or whoever the next one will be. God has every right to stand on the rooftop and yell “Don’t listen to them!! I am not like them!! I don’t do things the way he says I do them!!” while pointing directly at.. me.

Cause that’s the truth, right?? We’re all Mike. We’re all Todd. We’re all messed up, screwed up, broken, deceitful, lying, sinful people. Now we may not be as devious or as scheming as those who are exposed and exploited but does that make us any better or any worse? Not at all. At the end of the day we are broken, sinful people in need of grace. Only God’s grace. And I need just as much of it as Mike does.

Could you imagine if all of your crap was exposed for the world to see? What if your Twitter account really detailed everything you were doing? everything you were thinking? Uh oh. We wave the “authentic” flag as though people are getting to know the real us if we post a little of our family struggles or about our issues with this sin or that, imagining that if people are given a littel glimpse in to a bit of the hard side of my life they might give me a little pat on the back for being so honest. And really it’s just misdirection – let’s give them a bit of what’s behind Door #2 so they don’t want to look behind Door #3, cause if that door was opened it’s game over.

Right?

I don’t know. I’m not suggesting that we all have stories like Mike’s. I’m not suggesting that we’ve all cooked up schemes like his. But if it was YOUR song that Hillsong was releasing and YOUR name being used to promote it and someone uncovered ALL of YOUR baggage and garbage, don’t you think it would be the talk of the town? Yeah. Sure it would.

I have nothing to say about whether or not you should play the song. Some will say that the song is born in the heart of the writer and there is no way to use the song to lead people in worship. Some will say that the song – not the writer – is anointed and if God can speak through a donkey he can certainly speak through a deceiving, lying songwriter. Some will say that the song is worthless and not very good and shouldn’t be used in congregational worship anyways. So take your pick

So there you go. You’ve heard my thoughts. I’ve read lots of yours. I’m sure this will be talked about for a while. What’s next? Where do we go from here? What do we do with the famous ones in our church culture? Let’s hear you.

Check out these posts talking about this -

• Carlos
• Alex
• Rich
• Joshua
• Batsirai
• Fred
• Gary
• Joel
• Jordan

Cool ideas

Someone sent me a link to this site – Cool ideas

There’s some good stuff here – check it out!

Order hot tea in any Western-style restaurant, and it will be served to you in something with a handle, usually either or . Order the same cup of tea in any Eastern-style restaurant, and it will almost always be served in something without a handle, perhaps or . The Western mind thinks, “The handle is useful; it keeps me from burning my fingers.” The Eastern mind thinks, “The handle is dangerous; if the cup is too hot to pick up, it’s too hot to drink from.” These cups represent an interesting compromise; they have the aesthetic quality of Japanese tea cups, but the insulating utility of Western mugs.

This is the “Toro” tissue ring, designed by Scott Christensen, available through the Museum of Modern Art. It not only solves the tacky cardboard tissue-box problem, it does so substantially (unlike a tissue-box cover, which is only a superficial treatment) and minimally. The weight of the ring secures the stack of tissues in place, while the shape of the ring allows the tissues to be withdrawn from the stack one at a time.

This coffee-height table, designed by Keith Kaar Ckayton, features a large refillable pad of paper as the top surface. Draw, doodle, or eat on the thing; a clean surface is only one torn sheet away.

What’s your cool idea?

Orthodoxy – G.K. Chesterton

I’m not an avid reader but in keeping with my stereotypical artistic brain I usually have at least a couple of books on the go. This summer I’ve been reading some good stuff including one of the classics that I go back to every couple of years.

G.K. Chesterton is a favourite author of mine – I love his seemingly casual style of writing that almost conceals these deep, hard-hitting truths until the very last second when they jump off the page. I find myself reading a passage that he’s written, not entirely sure what point he’s trying to make and once the point is made (and made strongly!) I need to go back and re-read the whole setup. Chesterton is a master at convincing the reader to agree with something they would have disagreed at the beginning of the page.

Orthodoxy is a book I’ve read several times but I’m sure it will be a book that will be part of my library for my whole life. It is a quick read but the material is not light. Here is Chesterton’s description of why he wrote the book -

This book is meant to be a companion to “Heretics,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called “Heretics” because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is unavoidably affirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical. The writer has been driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset Newman in writing his Apologia; he has been forced to be egotistical only in order to be sincere. While everything else may be different the motive in both cases is the same. It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer. It deals first with all the writer’s own solitary and sincere speculations and then with all the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed. But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.

With all of the new ideas, new resources, new songs and new opportunities that come along every day sometimes it’s good to go backa few generations and spend some time with the thoughts of a man who had great impact on his culture at a time when the role of the church was in great decline. Hearing some of the things Chesterton says gives me new energy in my walk with Christ and also re-energizes my conviction that communicating the gospel through art is one of the ways our culture will be transformed.

My 3 girls

Think they’re sisters?

Avery – born October 7, 2005

Emerson – born April 28, 2007

Isabelle – born July 31, 2008

We made it our own

We’re in the middle of a series on Jonah right now and for a variety of reasons we decided to outsource our graphic development for the promotion and branding of this series. I found out that LifeChurch.tv had some material for a Jonah series on their Open site so we took what they had done and hired someone to help make it our own.

Before –

After –

Worship Confessional – August 10, 2008

I enjoyed my second Sunday of holidays this week and finally made it out to a church that I’ve wanted to visit for a while. Connexus Community Church is a North Point partner that launched last year in two sites north of Toronto – Barrie and Orillia. A friend of mine was the music director there for a while and I’ve had the privilege of getting to know their pastor, Carey Nieuwhof, this year. We’ve enjoyed some great early morning bagels and coffee at this amazing breakfast place that serves no breakfast. Don’t worry – it makes sense to the guy who runs the joint so that’s all that matters!

Early on Sunday morning we packed up the girls (all of them!) and headed up the 400 to check out what these guys are doing at Connexus. We got to the movie theatre no problem and enjoyed a really good morning with Carey and his team. Just like last week I had some thoughts on the good and the not so good about my experience at Connexus. I sent Carey an email earlier this week outlining all of this stuff and we’ve had some good back and forth since then.

At the heart of everything they do, the people of Connexus are deeply committed to reaching and impacting the people of central Ontario with the gospel. For an outsider like me, there’s really no place to be criticizing what they do. There were definitely things about Sunday morning that I wouldn’t have chosen to do but for what Connexus is all about, they are things that fit perfect for them.

As I said last week, I’m not posting this to either lift up or tear down this particular church – it is only a recap of the thoughts and reactions that I had on Sunday morning during my time with them.

Okay – so here is the GOOD of my time on Sunday morning -

• They’ve done a very good job of taking their building (a very modern movie theatre) and turning it in to their worship venue (a very modern church). The decor is tasteful and looks good. I still know I’m in a movie theatre but it doesn’t feel like I’m there for a movie.
• Their greeters were very welcoming and attentive of my needs. The woman who helped us find the kids’ area asked if she could get me a tea or a coffee while my kids were checked in. At one point I had to spend some time waiting for Sonya to come in and a greeter came and found me to make conversation. We felt very welcomed and put at ease.
• There were lots of volunteers in the kids area which made me feel very comfortable leaving my girls.
• The flow of the service was awesome. Carey was preaching a sermon on hell (now that sounds easy!) as part of a series called “Stairway To Heaven, Highway To Hell” and all of the elements worked together to speak to the point of the message.
• The song selection was good, based on the series and the content of the message – the band played “Everlasting God,” “How He Loves Us,” “Ring of Fire,” and ended with “Mighty To Save.”
• The best part of Sunday morning is that Carey spoke clearly of the truth and reality of an eternity separated from God without sugar-coating anything or trying to make it go down easy. I have heard too many messages on hell where the things that Jesus himself says about it are ignored. Carey’s message was filled with the words of Jesus – thanks man!

Like last week (and probably just like every week if I visited a different church every Sunday) there was some NOT SO GOOD as well -

• My biggest disappointment on Sunday morning was that I missed the beginning of the service. I was hoping to be in my seat by the time the band started the first song but there was some delay on our part so we missed almost all of the first two songs the band had played. That was not so good on our part!!
• I wasn’t crazy about the style of the band on Sunday morning. I’ve told this to Carey but based on the branding and the look of Connexus and from what I know of them so far, I was expecting the band to be more on the radio pop (I’m not talking Christian radio worship pop) side of things but instead they were more alt-rock. The guys that were playing were good musicians and pulled it off fine but it was one of those things that sort of stood out compared to the look and feel of the place separate from the music.
• I wasn’t crazy about the fact that my 15-month old and my almost-3-year old were placed in the same kids’ area. This may be because of the amount of room that they are working with but it did seem odd to me that kids from those two age groups were ending up together in the same area. Avery didn’t mind it – an hour playing with toys and babies is pretty awesome in her books!
• The whole idea of using IMAG to project Carey as he was speaking in the size of room that we were in didn’t really make sense to me. I had a hard time watching the “real Carey” as he preached because the “projected Carey” was delayed by a fraction of a section and it was playing tricks on my brain! I had to instead focus on just the “projected Carey” which seemed less-than-ideal since the room we were in wasn’t really begin enough to require IMAG.

Overall, we had a great morning with the folks in Barrie. It was nice to spend another Sunday visiting a church that does things pretty different from us but knowing that they are just as committed to reaching people with the gospel and to seeing them be transformed for the sake of Christ and His kingdom. The story of Connexus has been pretty awesome so far and I can’t wait to see what God is going to do next. And yes, Carey and I will be having breakfast-less breakfast shortly. I’ll let you know how it goes.

At least somebody likes me!

One of my favourite things about blogging has been the opportunity to meet other guys who are either on staff or volunteering as worship leaders and getting to pick their brains a little bit. It’s fun to get a sense of what people are about by reading their posts and seeing the things that motivate and inspire them. I feel like I have this network throughout Canada & the US of worship leaders and pastors who are dreaming about the same things as me and there is a very strong virtual community that happens through blogging.

Billy Chia is a guy whose blog I’ve been following for a while now. When I first started reading he was volunteering as a worship leader at his church but was convinced that God was leading him towards full-time worship ministry. He wrote about his desire to be in full-time ministry often and I know that there were lots of people praying for Billy and his family. We were all very excited when Billy announced that he was moving to Alabama to take a position as a worship director at a church in Huntsville.

Last week Billy did a series of posts where he linked his “top 5″ in a few categories – pastors, church staff and worship leaders. I was pleasantly surprised to see my blog listed in Billy’s Top 5 Worship Leader Blogs. Thanks Billy – I like your blog too!

So – let’s hear from you. What blogs are you loving? Is there a blog out there that you think the rest of us should be reading? Maybe it’s yours??

From my reader

Things have been a little nuts lately so I haven’t had as much time with my RSS reader as I’d like to. That sentence sounds fairly odd – I do not have some sort of techno-romantic relationship with my RSS reader, please do not misunderstand.

Anyways..

Instead of reading every post from the blogs I subscribe to, I’ve just been starring posts that look interesting and going back to them later. Here’s the best of the star-worthy posts from the last little while -

• TEDTalks – How would you feel if you lost everything?

Nine days before TED2008, filmmaker David Hoffman lost almost everything he owned in a fire that destroyed his home, office and 30 years of passionate collecting. He looks back at a life that’s been wiped clean in an instant — and looks forward.

• PraiseCharts Live – Why does God want us to sing?

Why is it important that we sing to God? Bob Kauflin grapples with this question and more in this interview to help us better identify the importance and meaning of singing during worship. Be stirred, be moved as God leads you in this video to give Him glory through song.

• kottke.org – An amazing collection of abstract satellite photos

The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.

• GoingTo11.com – Compression: Yes you can!

So I think I finally stumbled on a way I’m really digging to teach people how to learn to use a compressor. There’s a ton of info out there on what the controls all do followed by what someone thinks are where you should set the thing to get started in either specific numbers or some sort of vague fast/slow/medium terms. This stuff is fine and good to check out to get started, but in my opinion these training/explaining approaches generally fail at teaching engineers what to really listen for as well as a systematic approach to setting a compressor.

• RSSmeme – Amazing auditory illusion

Here is a terrific auditory illusion called a Shepard scale. Listen to the video, then replay it. Again. And again. And again. From Wikipedia: A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower. Shepard tone illusion (YouTube, via Mind Hacks)

Worship Confessional – August 3, 2008

So although I wasn’t leading worship or even in attendance at my church on Sunday morning, I thought it would still be fun to do a worship confessional. I had the privilege of taking my two oldest daughters with me to a church that is about 40 minutes away to be a part of their morning service. We left mom at home with our new addition and hit the road for some good churchin’!

The church we visited is one that has been on my radar for a couple of years. They are a big church for this part of Ontario and seem to be doing some interesting things. In terms of style I would compare them to any typical Willow model but they are a bit unique for Canada in that they are multi-venue on Sunday morning – the main auditorium with contemporary worship, a cafe area with a live video stream of the main service, a youth-focused venue with louder music and a more traditional, quieter venue with more reflective music. With the addition happening on our building and the strong possibility of both multi-venue and multi-site in our future, I was excited to see first-hand how these guys do it.

I think I twittered on Sunday that I am always thankful for the chance to visit other churches. I always come away having learned some new things as well as having been reminded of things to do and things NOT to do. This past Sunday was no exception.

To be fair to the church I visited, I’m not going to post their name until I have a chance to share my thoughts with them directly. I’m not posting this to either lift up or tear down this particular church – it is only a recap of the thoughts and reactions that I had on Sunday morning during my time with them. I did have a chance to meet their director of programming and we’ll be getting together shortly for lunch. I always love the opportunity to meet guys who are involved and passionate about the same things as me!

Okay – so here is the GOOD of my time on Sunday morning -

• Parking attendants were enthusiastic, smiling and looked like they were genuinely excited about helping me find my parking spot as I came in – that was a very nice touch!
• Lots of greeters inside the front door wearing bright yellow lanyards. I had no idea where to take my kids so my first reaction was to look for someone with a yellow lanyard – this made it very easy!
• The check-in process for my two girls was simple, painless, efficient and re-assuring. I had no reservations at all about leaving my girls with their childcare teams.
• The buiding was laid out very well and the different venues were clearly marked with signage that fit the feel and tone of the service. I knew right away by looking at the signage what kind of experience was going to be happening.
• The auditorium is an A+ space – great PA and lighting, lots of stage space, comfortable chairs, good sightlines, good colours and “feel” in the room.
• The musicians were well-rehearsed, talented and sounded like they were a band rather than a bunch of instruments playing along. Their parts and transitions were well thought-out.
• The message was some good teaching and had lots of “next step” opportunities for the congregation to apply the teaching to themselves personally.
• Getting my kids after the service was again painfree and enjoyable. They seemed to have had a good time and I was given a short outline of what my older daughter had done in her class that morning with some suggestions for follow-up questions at home.

Okay – so here is the NOT SO GOOD of my time on Sunday morning -

• The audio mix was terrible – the instruments were way too quiet and the vocals were way too loud. Terrible is probably an overstatement but I definitely spent more time critiquing the mix than I did just enjoying/engaging with the music.
• There was no call to worship – the lead vocalist simply walked out and said something to the effect of “Good morning, everyone. Let’s stand together to praise the Lord.” This did nothing to encourage me, remind me, inspire me, call me to worship our Saviour and Sovereign King as part of His church. It was another significant reminder in regards to the importance of taking time to intentionally call our people to worship on Sunday morning and to never assume that they are ready to go for it.
• The song selection in the worship package did not help things. The band started with three songs that I would consider to be response songs – songs that spoke of me living my life for God, following God, committing everything to God. These are worthy and noble things but they were not songs that spoke of the holiness, justice, mercy, power, grace and eternal love of God. As a worshipper on Sunday morning, I want to sing about those things!! It wasn’t until the fourth song of the set that the band played a song that spoke directly and clearly of the character of God but by then it was, for me, too late.
• The flow of the service was less than stellar. I don’t know if it’s because it is summer and people on the planning team are away but there were several things. The song flow didn’t really work, the announcements seemed to be very full of info, the congregational prayer lasted perhaps 15 seconds, there was a video clip used to introduce the message – I still have no idea what movie it was from or the real point of the clip. It really seemed like the team just felt like they had to include specific elements (announcements, prayer, video clip) and didn’t give a ton of thought to the experience of the person sitting in the seat. I never once in the whole service found my mind or my heart settled on what was actually happening.

Again, none of this stuff is meant to tear down what this church is about or what they are doing. I understand that I have a more critical than normal viewpoint when it comes to this stuff but I still go in to every situation like this trying to learn, trying to glean, trying to be reminded of what is and what is not important. On Sunday morning I was ready – very ready! – to spend some time engaged in worship with part of God’s church that I had never met before. I was ready to sing, to pray, to tell God how thankful I am for the amazing things that He’s done in my life. And yes, it is 100% my responsibility to do those things but on this particular Sunday morning I found myself more conscious of what was NOT happening – good sound, cohesive flow to the service, opportunities for engagement and interaction – rather than giving my mind and my heart an opportunity to pour out my praise to God.

Would I go back to this church? In a heartbeat! This is a church that is reaching their community, having an impact in the lives of people who are close by, a church that is serious about discipleship and serving. This is a church that showed its love for my kids and that they valued their little lives. What I experienced on Sunday morning would in no way affect my decision to go back if I was looking for a church.

Was I impacted deeply about the importance and eternal signifance of every minute on Sunday morning? You bet I was! Again, this is why I love having the opportunity to visit other churches – I always come back with one or two or three things that I can implement immediately in to the culture of our church to help us lead our congregation in to a deeper understanding of what it means to worship God with our whole lives.

So yeah – this is a long confessional. Sorry about that! Let’s hear some push back. Was I too critical of the experience? Did I let my wandering mind get the best of me? Is it my own darn fault that I didn’t like the service flow? Let’s hear it!

Welcome to our world

Well it’s been a pretty adventurous last few days in the Vacher household but the biggest news of all is that our third daughter, Isabelle Grace, entered the world at 2:08pm on Thursday, July 31st. She is a very healthy 7 lbs 4 oz (the smallest of our three girls) and so far everyone is doing great. My wife is a rockstar when it comes to labour and this time was no exception!

She got my nose. Sorry kid.

Me and my girls.

Sleep, baby, sleep.

We came home on Friday afternoon and we’ve been enjoying the time as a family of five. Avery & Emerson are very excited about their new sister (or “my baby” as Avery calls her!) and we are trying to keep everything as normal as we can with a 2 1/2 year old, a 15-month old and a newborn. Life is definitely not boring!

I’m excited about having some time off to spend with the family and I’m loving this time that we have together with our new girl. God is so good to us and to have been blessed with another child is amazing. One of the meanings of Isabelle is “my God is abundance” – three girls in three years, I’d definitely call that abundance!

Community Makeover in Paulding County, GA

I was noticing some interesting tweets from Stephen Parris last week about an event that his church was involved in. I’ve been reading Stephen’s blog for a while and thought I’d send some more of you over there in case you haven’t seen any of the info about the “Community Makeover” that a bunch of churches in Paulding County, GA pulled off this past weekend.

(If you click the Community Makeover link above here you’ll be taken to Stephen’s blog and all of the posts related to that event will load in your browser.)

From reading the info on his website this is what I think happened – a bunch of churches decided to work together to organize work projects across their region and unleashed people to be the hands and feet of Christ on the morning of Sunday, July 27th. Yes, Sunday. Yes, churches agreed to do something other than “church” on a Sunday morning. Take a deep breath – the world did not cave in on itself.

Here’s quick recaps of three different work projects they took on together -

A group of men from West Ridge brought in loads of dirt, a bobcat, a trencher, and lots of shovels and string backs to fix drainage problems in their yard. It was a massive project that Jim had begun, but completing the project was not an option. These men are taking the load off of Melissa’s shoulders. They couldn’t be more excited.

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This weekend, teams from West Ridge and a local football team are building a retaining wall (80-feet long) to make possible a future covered arena, and to keep the current barn from washing away. They are also trenching to improve water drainage from the riding fields.

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Right now they only have room for 2 or 3. But today, scores of volunteers arrived to change that. They added a screened in porch, a storage shed, a basketball court, paint throughout the house, a computer/learning room, picnic tables… The list goes on.

Also, because we know that worship is a lifestyle AND worship is also gathering, singing, celebrating, remembering, honouring God, these churches decided that they shouldn’t do one at the exclusion of the other so they agreed to gather together on the evening of that same day for a joint outdoor worship service. There are a bunch of photos of the joint worship service on this post.

I’m sure that there are churches doing this all over the country but this stands out as such a unique event to me – maybe because this is the exact kind of thing that we’ve been dreaming about launching in our own region, maybe because I know how hard it is to get churches to work together on something even as great as this. Regardless, I am so impressed with what these people have pulled off and that they did it in the name of Christ – they were literally the hands and feet of Christ all over the county.

I’m excited to hear more from Stephen about the things that God did on that day and how He is taking the efforts of those people and multiplying them for greater impact in the Kingdom.

Of course, no recap of a great event would be complete without a video, so here you go!

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