Sacred Digital: Chuckk Gerwig

Tonight after the Elevation service ends we'll have a wonderful beach bonfire for our community from 8:00pm - 9:59pm on Seabright Beach. It will be a special Elevation Afterhours. AfterHours has been such a great community builder @ Elevation. It's amazing to see 30, 40, 50, 60, and even 70+ of us show up at Woodstock Pizza to hang and BE together after the service every week. It makes us more than just a church service -it makes us a crew. Building community through an ongoing and regularly scheduled set of relational gatherings and happenings has been part of the Elevation Dream from the start and it's happening well.

We'll have a bus ready to wisk you off to beautiful Seabright Beach for a fun Elevation bonfire right after the service. We'll have maps available too in case you want to drive yourself. We'll have FIRE, hotdogs and sodas for $1, FIRE, moonlight n seasounds, FIRE, good company and FIRE too.

Bring a jacket, a blanket and also BRING someone with you tonight that hasn't visited Elevation yet - let's continue to be a community of invitation. Promotion is secondary to invitation, and invitation is secondary to putting someone in your car with you!

This Sunday will be a really special night at Elevation. My father, Gene Gerwig will be joining me in sharing how we can live with joy when life's circumstances hand us JUNK. My dad knows a LOT about this because in his early 20's he was in a devastating car fire that caused the loss of both his arms, an eye, an ear and left him severely disfigured for life. He got some junk handed to him yet my Dad has THRIVED and lived an awesome happy life. Gene is guy with a great sense of humor, a highly positive outlook and an amazing story. He's a guy worth hearing from, come join us and meet a unique, funny, unforgettable dude. Chuckk and Gene Gerwig, Venice, Italy 2006

This weekend should be an interesting one: I've got a screaming sinus and throat infection, my dad's coming to guest speak at Elevation with me on Sunday (see the post below this one), Andrea's Dad and some other dear friends are coming up from So Cal to stay the weekend and I'm just heading out with Stratocaster in hand to play guitar at Fin's with Omar- next week we play at Margaritaville. It's never boring 'round here.

On the iPod : the New Oasis album.

Last night my dad guest spoke with me at Elevation. He shared the story of his world rocking car accident / fire and the joy-filled life he's lived since, it was excellent. It was amazing to hear him sit and tell a room of 159 people how he'd never change his life a bit even the accident because God used it for good.

We'll have the audio podcast and probably the VIDEO of the service available within a month. I'll write and entry about it when it's all up online. Sorry the podcasts are behind a bit- we're changing our podcasting and website set up right now. The Shazam series is now currently up to date online but JUNK is not up yet.

On the iPod: The Clash Live at Shea Stadium

ahhhhhhh iPhone soooo tasty! After a long wait Andrea and I finally got moved over to iPhones this weekend. We're stoked! A good friend gave us a G2 iPhone when he moved up to G3 and I had the opportunity to change fones and carriers and got the new G3 16 gig. A LOT of our communication and tech issues have been instantly solved. I can't say enough good things about the iPhone - it rocks!

This Sunday I'll be teaching at all Santa Cruz Bible Church services - I feel a preach-a-thon comin' on. I'll be speaking on finding your true identity and referring to a book - Neil Anderson : Victory over the Darkness. The weekend will be FULL! -Saturday we'll be doing service projects around the community at Sharefest.

Other things in the news : SCBC has hired a new senior pastor, Dave Michelson he's coming from this church in Missouri. Dave will arrive after the holidays to grab the tiller and steer the SCBC ship.