Sunday Night Thoughts

**What a day!   Celebrated our Tenth Anniversary!  Wow!

**Great crowd... we are definitely growing...

**Cookers for Christ from Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge were amazing...  Jambalaya... and it was some kind of good...  And such servant hearts.  Pastor Dino has really instilled the servant attitude in all of their folks...  We fell in love with their team.

**To celebrate our tenth anniversary as a church... Coast gave Vicki and I a trip to Hawaii... We were speechless... and that doesn't happen very often.  We will make plans to go in October and we will celebrate our wedding anniversary while there.  Thanks Coast family... you shocked us today... in a great way.

** Still new faces every week... and today two were added into the kingdom today with several others making decisions to renew their relationship with Christ.

**Had a blast watching the smiles, hearing the laughter, and seeing people all over the property... eating, talking, playing volleyball, tossing a football and so much more.

**Julie Arnold rocks!  She is our event co-ordinator and she did an awesome job making today happen.  It really is a gift to pull off big events.  She blows me away.  Her hubby Ken is great too... and the cool thing is that this anniversary party he didn't have to go to the emergency room.  That is a good thing!

**The people at Coast are wonderful... We prayed when we planted Coast that we would be a place where people could build the best relationship with God they have ever had... and the best relationships with others they have ever had... and it has happened!

**It was hard not to cry as I watched the testimonies on video today...  God has done so much.

**The band just brought it today... loved the Delirious cover they did... Solid Rock.  It was great and Mike had the bass thumpin'.

**I feel overwhelmed by all that God has done...

**Thanks to our great staff and ministry teams for all their hard work these last three weeks...

**Thanks to our elders... you guys have kept me sane... although there maybe some questions about that...

**Next week starts our new series, "Fearless."  We are going to be talking about breaking free from fears... including financial fear, the fear of failure, and the fear of rejection.  Its going to change some lives.

**I am excited about all the new folks who have come recently to Coast... and for the ones who are about to be coming.  Thanks to the Coast members... we challenged you guys to invite your friends and you did... big time!

**Its been a really fulfilling day... and a great ten years... but honestly... we are just getting started.  The best is yet to come.

**I'm whooped and going to call it a night!  Will sleep good tonight.