Reset Button

Tomorrow the Tanners will be heading out west to Montana with Betsy’s parents to visit Betsy’s brother and family.  Ben and the rest of his family (Giner, Blaine, and Cade) haven’t had the chance to meet Luke yet.  So we are setting off for a week long journey starting in Billings and then heading up north to Yellowstone.

This is coming at a perfect time for me.  For the last month I have felt like a project manager with all the teams coming to help work on our building.  And it was a such a blessing to have over 100 people PAY to come help the Kingdom.  But while spinning that plate (copy right Mike Fielder) others have been neglected.  So this coming week I am hitting the Reset Button and coming back focused on our fall and what God is going to do.

In the past year as a church plant I have noticed the difference between plants that fail and those that survive.  The one variable: PARTNERSHIP.  Of the planters that have survived they have had at least one person to help carry the load.  They have had one person who stands by their side while the fiery arrows come.  Who is strong when you are weak, and allows you to recharge.  I am lucky to have such a person in Chris Barrineau our Executive Pastor.  I can step on that plane tomorrow knowing that Chris has it covered and will allow me take some deep, refreshing breaths.

We had a great Lead Team meeting last night (fresh breath) and have a TON of things planned for August as we get geared up for Fall!  I am praying that the Lord continues to send the workers because the harvest is plentiful.  We will be resting up this week because we know that when Aug comes it will be pedal to the metal as we penetrate darkness with the Good News.

Montana here we come!

Capstone Dunk’d Video

Capstone Dunk’d II from Capstone on Vimeo.

Capstone Dunk’d Service

This past Sunday we held our second baptism service (Dunk’d) at Capstone.  We knew that we wanted to do another dunk’d service in the summer after our intentional dunk’d service in February.  The thing is that we didn’t know if we would actually have anyone to baptize.  Sunday we saw 9 of our church family go through the waters of baptism.  It was an amazing blessing to be a part of the memoriable day as we continue to see lives transformed at Capstone.

Chris (Executive Pastor) and I were discussing the vision of Capstone revolved around freedom  to come as you are and diversity in who we reached.  Sunday was a perfect example of that vision.  We had grandparents who came on the invitation of their son.  We had the parents of six children, with their oldest daughter get dunk’d.  We had a rising sixth grader who grasped the sacrifice of Christ.  We had a mom who finally found a relationship after holding onto religion for so long.  We had a young man who in the last six months has seen God move in his life and transform his life in dramatic fashion.  We had a guy who came not knowing he would leave soaking wet after he felt like he needed to show that he was a new creation.

I am praying that we will have another Dunk’d service in the fall.  I really don’t know who else we will be making this outward expression of an inward decision. But I know that God is continuing to move and change lives at Capstone.  I look forward in a few months to listing a whole new group of people who will be following Christ example in baptism.

Capstone is FAMOUS.

Not really! We exist to make Christ FAMOUS- not us! But the Baptist Courier had an article about our PowerPlant Team who came and helped out. There is even a picture of our crew ripping out part of our new office. You can see it all here:

Summer Kamp Video

capstone church summer kamp from Capstone on Vimeo.

Busy week with PowerPlant

The North America Mission Board (NAMB) has a program called Powerplant that connects Student Ministries and Church Plants in hope to plant seeds of church planting in the next generation. This past week Greenville hosted the largest powerplant in the country with over 200 coming to the Upstate to help Church Plants.

The group that helped us was from Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Montergermy, Alabama. They were an amazing blessing to Capstone and Fountain Inn. The students and adults from Ridgecrest did an amazing job helping get some MAJOR work done at the building. They also planned and ran Capstone’s first Summer Kamp at Woodside Park.

I will be posting a highlight video next week. Thank you to Adam and his students for impacting the kingdom of Christ! Great Job.