Guest Blog: John Bishop, Ministries Pastor – Elevation Church
This entire week the office has been buzzing with volunteers – putting together 1,000 gifts in preparation for the people who will accept Christ over the next three weeks, hammering grommets into pieces of cloth that will be hung on the stage as part of the set design, sending out letters and pictures to the 1,044 people who were baptized during Awakening…It’s felt like the NY Stock Exchange in here!
On top of all the volunteers, we have had delivery trucks running over time as we have been pulling together all of the details for launching our new campus this Sunday. CS4 (which is the affectionate name for the area in our office where the creative people work) is littered with road cases, cables, instruments, lighting, and print material. We literally have the entire Uptown campus in our office in anticipation for this week’s launch of the Uptown Campus at McGlohon.
This morning we all read John 5 together and then prayed as a staff for everything we are hoping God will do this weekend. A lot of our prayers centered around Awakening Students, a two night event we’ve put together to get hundreds of students who attend Elevation Church on fire right before they get back to school next week. It starts tonight at 6:30 at Providence High School and you can almost see the anticipation in the office it’s so thick.
God called our staff and hundreds of our volunteers to do a Daniel Fast (you can check out the details here) and pray as we enter into these next three weeks. And the dividends of that spiritual investment are paying off.
If you were thinking you might wait to invite your friend to Elevation Church some other time, I would strongly urge you to reconsider your timing. God has been setting the stage for an incredible Sunday this week as we start The Gospel. If you come alone you will be kicking yourself. Find someone to bring with you so you will have a witness to back you up later as you’re trying to explain to people who weren’t there how incredible it was…