It's the most wonderful time of the year!

In their killer book “Simply Strategic Growth”, Tim Stevens and Tony Morgan 99 great ideas to help your church grow. One of the ideas that hit me on the head when I read it was idea number 40 “Prepare for Christmas in September”.

Every year in December I usually do some kind of Christmas series. Last year we had our first ever Christmas Eve service too. We did not expect much of a turn out for the service but we were blown away when over 300 people showed up! So this year we took the “Simply Strategic” guys advice to heart.

We have been planning for months not our Christmas season and today had a major meeting about it. We walked through in our programming meeting the entire Christmas Series. I am very excited about it! As of right now I wonder if it will be the most personal series I have ever done in my life! The series is called “Blue Christmas: Breaking the Seasonal Blues”. We walked through everything from décor, videos, props and it was a blast. I love working with my worship pastor and programming director, I really feel like we are starting to jell like never before.

Then we had a major Christmas Eve planning meeting! If you are a Crossbridger, make plans to join us! This will be a great service! We see the Christmas Eve service as our gift to the community. There will people at this service that haven’t been to a church service all year! The creating planning was so fun! Lost of hard work and vision casting is ahead of us! We’re going to pray like everything depends on God and work like everything depends on us!