September 26-27 Weekend Recap

This weekend marked the 25th Anniversary of Living Streams Church.  Friday night we had a worship & prayer service wrapping up 25 days of fasting & prayer as a church.  Sunday after our services we celebrated with a lunch for the whole church. All our services went really well.  I’m thankful for all the dedicated [...]

7 Practices of Effective Ministry

This is the first book I’ve read by Andy Stanley.  I’ve heard from several friends that I should check out some of his books, and I’m glad I finally got around to it.  This book lays out some great, practical and implementable guidelines to approach and measure effectiveness in your approach to ministry.  I thought [...]

September 19-20 Weekend Recap

OK, the first thing I want to do is give a big shout out to our tech crew.  With a wedding on Saturday that required us to take down the drums and cage, Eric Hagen and his team did a great job of getting things reset with not much time between the wedding and our [...]

New Drum Booth

This past week we made some long-awaited changes to our platform.  I have been lobbying for this since last December and was pretty excited to see this finally happen.  The drum booth that has been here since long before I came on staff last year just wasn’t cutting it.  The design was terrible.  We couldn’t [...]

September 12-13 Weekend Recap

After a week away, it was good to be back leading at Living Streams.  For some reason it seemed like a lot of people weren’t available to serve on our teams, and then a couple folks fell sick as we got into the weekend.  Not an unusual thing for us to face, but frustrating at [...]