For what are you Thankful?

Special Thanksgiving Gathering

Tonight at 7:00 PM!!!  We will have special music, communion, a special video and a message entitled, " I am Thankful for Christ!"  

See you tonight!!!

Good luck to our Latta School ball players tonight as they host Vanoss.

Blackberry and iPhone Users...

You seriously need to download YouVersion, which is a Bible Phone App that is free of charge!  It's awesome and comes with Daily Readings, Notes, and many Versions!!!  I know you will enjoy it.

www.youversion.com

Insightful Quote

“If someone can walk away from you, let ‘em walk…”

- Bishop T.D. Jakes

Weekend Wrap

Great Sunday.  Awesome Day.

3 People Accepted Christ!!!  That is now more than 78 conversions for this year!!!

The Portico is looking great...thanks to everyone who has helped make that a possibility!

Gearing up for Connection Groups tonight.  I know that they are going to be awesome.

Getting the upstairs restrooms redone and they will be completed soon...hopefully this week!

One Ministries

Last night five local churches met together to serve our community and make a difference in people's lives and I believe that it marked an eternal change in Ada.  As we came together as ONE there was no competition, jealousy, or territorialism!  There was lots of humility, unity, and support for each other!  Through the evening it seemed that we got "it", and we served not as a church, but as the CHURCH!  Not being a voice for our specific church and not promoting our chosen style of worship seemed to be the sounds from the Feed the Children Outreach event. Instead, over 200 volunteers met to be the hands, feet, and mouthpieces of God.  We were HIS ambassadors, promoting Christ and Him alone!  

This unity is what our community has needed for some time and some have been longing for it.  I've had long-time members of our congregation say, "finally" and breathe a sigh of relief knowing that our generation will work together for the good of the Kingdom of God by laying aside the differences that have separated us for far too long.  We are committed to focusing on the thing that unites us, Christ!  I honestly have never experienced unity from five different pastors and five different congregations like that of last night.

This event was set up to change lives by feeding the hungry in our community during the Holiday Season, but it wound up changing ME!  A change that will affect my life forever.  I now see that together we can accomplish more and that we are better functioning as ONE CHURCH instead of my one church.  

Thank You to ONE PRAYER which was the cause of two pastors meeting together some months ago to pray and discuss the series of ONE Prayer together.  Then they invited me and I was the third pastor to join and then there were five!  And now we've grown to six.   What was met to have been a few meetings to discuss ONE PRAYER is now a twice a month prayer and support gathering for us.  The brotherhood is awesome.  Only God knows the future for our community but with this type of unity I foresee a city wide awaking coming soon. 

Thanks to Denny Truett of Victory Life Fellowship, Kenny Morrison of Grace Christian Fellowship, Scott Miller of Legacy Church, Zac Christian at H2O Church, and Bob Davis of The Church of the Nazarene for your leadership in leading your teams to pull off such an event.  

And, thanks to all the good people of Crosspointe for showing up in great numbers to help serve our community and feed 400 families...you all possess a heart of service that blows me away! 

Finally, thanks to my friend Mickey Hensley at Feed the Children that helped make this event a reality for us!

Why I use the ESV!

http://www.esv.org/assets/pdfs/intro.pdf

ARE YOU SERIOUS, SERIOUSLY!!!

Christmas Ad Campaign Promotes Godless Morality

The American Humanist Association announced a new advertising campaign this week promoting morality without religion that will feature ads on more than 200 Metrobuses in Washington D.C. "Why believe in a god?" the ad reads. "Just be good for goodness' sake." Humanist leaders say they believe it is the first ad campaign of its kind in the United States; it follows plans announced by atheists in London to place bus ads that say "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life," starting in January. The American Family Association calls the ads "stupid," saying that God defines morality, and individuals defining what's good for themselves will result in a "crazy world." The dean of the Liberty University School of Law Matthew Staver, said, "It's the ultimate grinch to say there is no God at a time when millions of people around the world celebrate the birth of Christ. Certainly, they have the right to believe what they want, but this is insulting." Best-selling books by authors such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have fueled interest in "the new atheism"—a more in-your-face argument against God's existence. 

(TAKEN FROM THE CHURCH INTELLIGENCE REPORT)

Great Quote I am pondering...

Where there is slack there's lack, but where there is vision there's provision!!!

What's one thing about the Holiday's that you're looking forward to

Get this number...

The Samaritan's Ministry of Crosspointe will have fed 955 families as of this Thursday!!!  Praise God.

Is God trying to send me a message

Three of my closest ministry friends are getting iPhone's today and I still have the blackberry...I feel like I am in the stone ages!  

Weekend Insight

I am anticipating an awesome day today at Crosspointe as I continue my talk on the Second Coming of Christ!  Today's topic is "Signs of the Times."

Last week was our third largest crowd of the year, but the awesome thing is a young lady accepted  Christ and that is over 75 people that have accepted Christ this year!!!  I am so proud of our church for bringing people who don't know Christ - Great Job!

After our Gathering there will be a Spaghetti Dinner in the Fellowship Hall to raise money for our Women's Ministries.  MMMM, can't wait!

Crosspointe's Affiliations...

Crosspointe Church is affiliated with the...

United Pastor's Network

Harvest Network

HONORING OUR VETERANS!

Updating the "Portico"

We are updating The Portico which is a place to drink coffee and connect with others.  Here are a few pics to show our progress...

We are planning a few more updates as well...

We are going to paint the cabinets

Purchase new tables for hanging out and shelving for displays

Weekend Wrap

1.  God's presence was so strong at our gathering today.  It was awesome!!!

2.  One accepted Christ.

3.  One of our largest crowds.

4.  Our band is amazing!  Great job team worship!!!

5.  We got the hook up with Starbucks!  Big announcement coming soon.

6.  My wife kicked my tale at push-ups.  She did 20, I did 3!

7.  Jennifer and I had a great time eating lunch with a young couple today who are totally on fire for missions.  Very inspirational.

8.  Looking forward to this week.  Tomorrow I will be working on my message for next week.

What a Man!

Billy Graham turned 90 today!  The first word that came to mind when I read and article about him in The Daily Oklahoman was INTEGRITY!   What one word can you think of to best describe the world's most well known evangelist?  Comment!!!

12 relationships that I value

1.  Larry Boatright - The Orchard Community

2.  Justin Edge - Life Church

3. Hal Santos - Grace Church

4.  Brent Kellogg - Cornerstone Church

5.  Scott Oltmans - Crosspointe Church

6. Kirk Pantkratz - Church of the Harvest

7.  Seth Swindall - Victory Life Church Atoka

8.  Lynn Wheeler

9.  Ron Rhoads

10. Jeremy Dugas - Church of the Harvest - Youth and Design and Video.

11. Elijah Tindall - Evangelist

12.  John Brown - Missionary

12.  My brothers at the UPN

My New Starbucks Bold Card!