Matthew Robinson

The Well’s Band is putting this song together for Sunday…it’s going to be incredible!

(Healing is in your Hands, Passion 2010, Christy Nockles)

James Parsons.  The man, the myth, the legend.  Our “live” special correspondent during one of the segments tonight.

Find me a better Director of Excitement.  I dare you.

The start of a brand new sermon series Dean will be teaching on the next several weeks: Story.

The scripture of the Bible, God’s grand story, makes him known–from beginning to end!

Join us at Thomasville Road at 5:30 p.m. or live on the web!

Thank you(s).

Thank you to all those who have cleaned and scrubbed.

Thank you to all those who have filled and sanded and primed and painted.

And thank you to all those who have worked in the four dreaded bathrooms at the new Well Kids Storefront.

Thank you to the moms (and grandpas!) who have brought our volunteers food.  And drinks.  And good cheer.

Thank you to the 97 people I’ve given tours to for stopping by.  I have it down to under 93 seconds start to finish.

Thank you to those that have gotten there early and stayed late picking up messes and cleaning rollers.

Especially you roller cleaners…thank you.

Thank you to James Parsons for helping manage this project.

Thank you to all those who actually know what they’re doing who have come and helped and shown us how

Thank you to the guys that are going to lay the floors this Saturday.

And to the girls that are going to come in after them and make the place crystal clear spotless clean.

Thank you to those that have sent texts and facebook messages saying they’ll be there, and have shown up, and have come back the next day again to help out.

Thank you to those that have made purchases for us and give us new donated items.  We need more of you!

And thank you to those who have put up cold hard cash to make this a reality.  We definitely need more of you!

Before and After pictures are forthcoming.

The ministry potential and vision is awesome.

I can not wait to see how He continues to work at The Well.

Greater things are yet to come!

I have a want and need list for our new location project budgeting at The Well.  And while we’re looking for 100 people to donate $1,000 to reach our $100,000 goal in the next 45 days, I’ve realized some may be able to meet specific needs (or may be able to approach others with helping to meet specific needs), so here’s a “registry” of sorts from which you can make purchases on our behalf!  To avoid returns, let me know if you’ve got something covered and I’ll update.  And thanks for being generous and loving in advance.  The best is yet to come!

We need one of these

We could use six of these

And six of these, too.

We need five of these.

We need two of these.

We want four of these.

And three of these.

Oh and six of these.

We of course need paint.  Lots and lots of paint (you know I hear gift cards to Lowes or Home Depot or Sherwin-Williams are fantastic this time of year!)

And we need eight of these.

We would really like a house drum kit.

And a refrigerator.

And a use-able sofa and loveseat.

We need three of these.

And if you had 8,000 square feet of laminate flooring, we’d take that, too.  Really…we would.

And oh yeah, we need 600 chairs.  I’ll get a link for those shortly!

The video :)

On Vimeo:

on YouTube:

…what you might see on a Sunday.  I’m just sayin’…

It sucks.  Really, it does.  I haven’t missed that much work or felt that bad in not just forever, but just plain ever.  I’m alive and well, getting my energy back, and now immune.  Thanks to all for your kind thoughts and prayers this past week.  Oink oink!

My college friends Natalie and Clayton Noa were in town for the weekend visiting, and they got to come to The Well for the first time this morning.  They’re regular online viewers and it was great having them for a Bulls upset here in the panhandle.  If only they’d get smart and move back for good…

So many old Well-ers back in town…we’re seriously in the process of figuring out what an Alumni Association would look like for us…if you want to be a founding member and help launch it, holla.

I’ve loved our current series, and we had a special day celebrating communion together.  Behind-the-scenes moment you didn’t see (well, some of you did): a guy at the morning service picked the “dip your cracker in it” juice cup up and took a big sip.  More power to him.  To each is own.  It was funny to see traffic divert to the other stations after that one.

I love the song It is Well. Powerful.

Behind the scenes moment number two: half way through, Dean chucked the second half of his planned sermon.  Boy can that man preach.  We heard the message he was lead to share from Matthew 19.  Strong stuff to chew on for self-examination.  Like I said, this series has been incredible for us.

And Krissie was the most effortless person I’ve ever had to video.  She’s so natural, so easy going, and so genuine.  And, she makes Dean look pretty darn good.  We love our Pastor’s wife!

And finally.  Our graphics team.  Oh boy oh boy do they have a sense of humor.  Real comedians I tell you.

This was the first image I was emailed this past week as collateral for our upcoming series and the promo video we put together:

And this is what we ended up with, and what it should have been:

I mean, they’re honest at least.  Join us next Sunday! :)

There’s the My Story video that we premiered right before Dean’s sermon.  Warning: you might need a tissue.

There’s the footage from God of this City, mixed with our live version.  Suh-weet!

And there’s the drumline.  And their standing ovation.  Can we please start church like that every week?

And then there’s what a dozen people have asked me for.  And I don’t know the legality of it.  I do know we have a license, and I know I’m not making any money off it, and I know that if it touches you and you put it on your little iPod and it draws you closer…well then dang it it’s worth something.  Right-click-and-down-load and the songs from our Two Year Anniversary service are yours.  In-cred-i-ble I tell you!

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