- The first ever Origin Church Easter was awesome!
- Our Family Ministry area is strong, strong for Origin! We had more kids than we did on launch. Kudos to all the volunteer team led by Chip Clark. Amazing group of people who realize that 0-19 are our priority!
- We set up on Sunday morning early for the first time. Launch weekend, we took our time over two days. We were nervous but it came out great. We set up in about 2 hours. We are looking for volunteers who feel a call to load/in and load/out each Sunday. This could very well be the most important team on campus each Sunday. NOTHING would happen without them! Email us at jeffg@originchurch.tv if you are ready to go!
- A special shout-out to our launch team who began this journey with us back in August. You have stayed the course and have been faithful to the end. It was so awesome seeing musicians that weren’t “on” Sunday out working the parking ministry, setting up chairs, and doing whatever it took. It’s so nice for us all to realize that life is just too short to sit and continue soaking up a sermon; let’s go live one!
- There is an energy flowing around Ringgold/Chattanooga like I haven’t witnessed in years!
- For all of you that have attended the first two Sundays of Origin, thank you! We are loving getting to know all of you. We can’t wait to get to know you all better. Keep coming and get ready!
- We have real need of our own U-haul truck for our equipment; cost about $3,000 if you have interest. Otherwise, we load twice, and unload twice each week into our warehouse. Exhausting! Pray, if you will.
- We still can’t get over 5,000 people at our helicopter easter egg drop where we partnered with the Ringgold Downtown Business Partners. Unbelievable!
- Amazing crowd at our second official service! Lots of first time guests.
- We had people begin a new relationship with Jesus Christ; what it’s all about!
- God moved during the film clip from The Passion of the Christ.
- We had some glitches we didn’t have the first week in production. If there were a perfect day, Murphy’s Law would still occur, unless we were in heaven.
- We are loving reading the comments on facebook about peoples’ experience at Origin. What encouragement!
- We are already planning series number 2 and 3; Excited about them both!
- So many pastor friends who had amazing Easter Sunday’s; hooray for God, not our individual churches! Add us all together; are we advancing the kingdom?
- Proud of Jeff Gonzalez for coming alongside of me early on last year.
- My wife, Kim, has been a superstar in helping Origin launch and sustain.
- Our launch team who are doing the bulk of the volunteering have become family. We really hope all of you attending Origin will volunteer too. We don’t need another message; we need to learn to feed ourselves and add value to others.
