October is gone, November is here

There's this subtle ticking in my head.  Somedays it's very loud.  Somedays you barely hear it.  But it never completely goes away.  My guess is most of you reading this can't hear it at all.  It's the sound of October 4th, 2009, ticking slowly away.  Now for you, that date may not mean a whole lot.  But for me, it means two things.  One, it's my sisters birthday.  But two, it's our targeted official launch weekend.  And so with every Sunday that passes, that clock starts ticking a little louder.  Who will show up that Sunday?  Where will they show up at?  Who will be on stage with me and who will be welcoming the hundreds of people who will show up and who will take care of their kids and will they come back for week two and will there be any money to buy all the equipment needed to take care of them and the worship and the children's ministry?  I haven't even mentioned that...at some point we'll need to figure out what we're going to teach and sing and how we're going to get them involved in a church that doesn't exist!  Now...it's a good thing that I don't hear that ticking so loudly all the time, otherwise this might be the first church ever planted in an mental institution.  (I wonder what kind of projector you use for a rubber room?)  

All in all, things are going well for us.  We are getting established in the community here, and we've already met some really great friends from Crosspoint and CATC.  We miss our LaGrange friends a lot, but that clock in my head keeps me from having time to get down about not seeing the people we care about so much.  

I still get a lot of people who ask me, "so how's this going to work?"  Do you have a church building to meet in?"  The answer of course is, "No."  But we don't have a group of people to need to have a place to meet in anyway, so for right now, no space is the best thing in the world.

Well the clock is ticking loudly now, so I better hit the ground running on a few tasks for the day.  Only 335 days til launch, and that's if you don't count the preview weekends!!!!!  Now I'm really freaking out!