Baptism pictures.

Here are a few of the people that were baptized yesterday at Foothills.
It is so amazing what God is doing here. We have baptized 178 people this year!

huge day

It was an incredible day at Foothills this morning.

** At the Seneca campus we had baptisms, which are my favorite services.

** I believe the final number was 57 people got dunked

** After the service people kept coming up and wanting to be baptized, so we just kept on baptizing.

** Lots of people saved today as well. Don't know how many, but will find out tomorrow.

** Good crowds today, and lots of energy.

** We started distibuting tickets for the Christmas eve services. If you forgot to pick yours up, you better hurry, they're going fast!

** At our Toccoa campus they held their last service in the gym! (thanks to Osborne Wood Products for their amazing generosity for letting us meet there for the past year)

** Next week begins a new adventure as we meet in our new facility on Big A road. It is going to be amazing!

I love being the Pastor of this church!

Foothills Music

We are blessed at Foothills Community Church with 3 worship leaders on staff. Eric Peters leads our 9:30am service in Seneca, Jonathan Bryant leads worship at our Toccoa campus, and David Odom leads worship at our 11:15am service in Seneca.
Here is a video from David and his team from last Sunday. I love his passion for the Lord!

It's not too late

If you have not already signed up to be baptized this Sunday at Foothills----it's not too late.

Trust me, you do not want to miss church this Sunday at Foothills Community Church. Without a doubt, our baptism services are the most awe inspiring, powerful services we do Watching people make their public proclamation of faith through baptism is such a celebration, it's almost impossible to describe.

Of course, not only will we be doing baptisms, but also we'll be worshiping God through music, and I'll be sharing a message called, "Seize The Day!"

By the way, if you are planning to be baptized, invite your friends and family to witness this milestone in your life!

This Sunday

A couple of observations from yesterday and a couple of things about this coming weekend at Foothills Community Church:


Yesterday at Foothills:

** Had the day off from preaching, which is always a good chance to catch my breath.

** Thanks to Paul Carr for pinch-hitting for me.

** Introduced our Foothills family Christmas, which is an effort to provide Christmas gifts to 250 needy children this Christmas. This is a rough time for lots of families. If you would like to participate either by giving to the cause, or if you know of a family that could use some help, let us know.

** It's amazing how many new babies (and pregnant women) we have at Foothills. Must be something in the water



This Sunday at Foothills:

** You do not want to miss--- If you miss, you will be sad---just sayin

** We will be doing baptisms in BOTH services this Sunday.

** Baptism services are some of the best services we have.

** If you have not been baptized and you are a follower of Christ, plan on doing it this Sunday!

** We will be wrapping up the Zeros and Heroes series this Sunday.

** You won't believe what the concourse is going to look like.

** On December 13th we will begin our Christmas series called, "Do You Hear?"

** Pick up Your tickets this Sunday for our Christmas eve services.

In case you missed it

Just to get us in the Thanksgiving spirit, here's my message from last Sunday on giving thanks:

Things I learned from cleaning my desk

This morning during my quiet time I was reading from 1 Cor.14:33 "For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace...", I'm not sure if that was what inspired me, but I then decided to try to make some order of my desk.

When it comes to my desk, I have my own system of tracking where stuff is. I would describe my desk as organized chaos. But every once in a while, I get the urge to try to regain control.

Now in fairness to myself, I have been on a sermon writing frenzy over the last few months that has allowed me to work ahead by nearly 2 months, so my desk has research stuff for probably 6 or 7 sermons on it at one time.

It was amazing the things that I uncovered! Things that I had forgotten about completely were once again discovered.

I got to thinking about the church. People come in with cluttered lives, and slowly Christ helps them to regain control of their lives. Lost things are rediscovered, and a sense of peace prevails.

Unfortunately there is another side to this. There are some people in the church that never connect. They attend regularly for a while, but never get involved, and slowly the clutter starts covering up the joy of Christ in their lives, and before you know it, they're gone.

Every once in a while I'll run into someone at a restaurant or a store, and it dawns on me that I used to see this person attending faithfully, but they've slowly moved off the radar screen. Some end up at other churches (which is fine), but unfortunately some drop out of church all together. Clutter has a way of doing that.

Is it time for you to do a little cleaning and organizing? Why not start today?

sunday night review

A great day at Foothills in spite of the nasty weather. Talked about being thankful today, so I thought my Sunday review would be things that I was thankful for today.

** Thankful to Jesus for paying the price for my sins -- I am so undeserving

** Thankful for our church (Foothills Community Church). Seriously, most Pastors would give their right arms to be able to serve in a church like Foothills!

** Thankful for people who ventured out in the cold, rainy weather to worship our King.

** Thankful for the great worship leaders, musicians, singers, and tech people who make my job so much easier.

** Thankful for all of our volunteers who serve tirelessly every Sunday (and throughout the week) to make it all possible.

** Thankful for the umbrella team who make sure people stay dry on the walk from the parking lot

** Thankful for all of the changed lives every week

** Thankful for all of the people who invite their friends to church. I love it when people come up to me and introduce me to their guests!

** Thankful for a church that genuinely loves people.

** Thankful for our Toccoa campus. They are such a cool group of people. I don't get a chance to be there in person with them often, but when I do, it's a blast!

** Thankful for people who sacrificially give to help us reach more people for Christ.

What are you thankful for today?