The Beckley Sessions

I have to admit that I am a slacker. I was reading Kevin's blawg (as he likes to describe it) and he was promoting David's future project.

David is our Chief Musician/Worship Leader at StoneBridge. He's not only our worship leader, but he is our graphic designer, future web designer, and a small group leader. In my opinion, he is an amazing singer with the talent to make it to the Big Leagues!

If you are looking for someone worthy of support, please support his new album! With that being said, David, you can expect a donation from me...maybe a $1.00...just kidding!

One Year Anniversary

Our "Chief Musician", David Story, celebrated his one year anniversary with StoneBridge yesterday. We celebrated his arrival last night by watching the first half of the Colts game. The Colts were taking a good ole fashion whoopn' in the first half, so most everyone decided to head to the house.

I got home from the party, tucked the kids in bed, turned on the tube, and the Colts were tied with the Patriots 28-28. I couldn't believe it. After the Colts went ahead of the Patriots I got on the horn to call David. When he picked up his phone he yelled "Touchdown!" What an amazing comeback for the Colts. I am proud for David, Matt (another Hoosier in our church), and for Tony Dungy.

Happy Anniversary David!

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Someone Brought A 12 Gauge Shotgun And An IPOD To Church!

Can you believe it? Someone brought a 12 Gauge Shotgun and an Ipod to our church yesterday!

David opened up the service by saying, "This is going to be a little different service than usual. Today, we want to honor our pastors." He continued, "Two years ago, I received a call from a guy with an East Texas accent who wanted me to transfer schools. I thought, who does this guy think he is! Well, it has been almost a year now since I moved from Fairmount, Indiana to Morgantown, West Virginia. We are all here today, because the Sheffstalls and the Knights were willing to move from Texas to West Virgina."

After David's comments, several people in our church stood up and graced us with kind words. I love this place! After everyone was finished speaking, they encouraged us to come forward to receive gifts. I received an IPOD (Yahoo, Yipee...hooray) and Russell received a 12 Gauge Shotgun.

It only gets better. Not only did they grace us with words, give gifts to men, but they gathered around us to pray.

I thank God for the privilege of pastoring this church! Thank you Lord for all of your blessings!!!

The December Calendar

I can't believe how fast this year has gone by. Russell and I sat down this morning planning for the up-coming month and new year. December will begin with Russell and me finishing up our Y-Series! His message will center around Y-Give, and I will finish the series with Y-Church.

This will take us two weeks into December, leaving us with three more Sundays in 2006 to impact our community of believers.

Looking back on the year, I am amazed at the giant leaps of faith we have taken as a church. Since the beginning of the year, we have called a worship leader (David Story), multiplied our Small Groups (from two to five), began numerous Life Transformation Groups, and have reached our monthly financial goals every month, except for one. Another exciting statistic is that we have averaged in the fifties and sixties since July! This past month, we averaged 61 people for the month, with an all time high (on our own) of 101 people.

We realize that we have a lot of work left to do. There are still plenty of people in Morgantown, and the world who are not yet fully developing followers of Jesus Christ. Russell and I discussed our inadequacies, and our desire to do a better job in 2007. One of the things we are going to do is plan our 2007 Calendar year. We hope to have our Sermon Series for 07' in the bag and ready to go. We want God to use our church in a greater, and more abundant way in the up-coming year.