Sacred Digital: Chuckk Gerwig

...Long story but... a Christian brother and buddy of mine gave me a 1990 4 wheel drive Range Rover Classic for Christmas... yep.

He bought the Rover but then he was given another car by a friend of his a day or 2 later...THEN he and his wife both had the same dream one night... wild huh... they both had dreamt that they should give me the Rover instead of selling it... So a day or so before Christmas we're driving along in this Range Rover...I ask "hey did you borrow this car, whose is it?"... he pulls over and hands me the keys and says it's your car... Amazing, I was needing a vehicle in a bad way... God is a mysterious and surprising fellow, no?

To make it even more humbling, cool and beautiful another friend (a master mechanic) has offered to go through and change out all the belts, hoses, filters, plugs, wires, gaskets, fluids - replace the brakes and give it a FAT tune up...all at no charge for the labor so that it will be freshed-up and more dependable. Jesus is wonderful and provides in crazy ways.

Stock Range Rovers can do this on your way to the office...

I love Santa Cruz folks, they are a wacky bunch. Case in point #1 these Troll Dolls, custom fitted with crosses, clerical robes and collars were found in the offering "plates". They had the names Chuckk and Omar written on their collars. This was a unique Santa Cruz-y offering.

Case in point #2 a visitor in his mid fifties arrived at the service wearing a blinking rudolph red nose (weeks after Christmas) which he kept on for a good part of the service. He arrived through the backdoor mid service and knocked over a bunch of candle stands - the woman with him said " I can't take him anywhere', as his electric nose toy blinked on and off. There's always something interesting happening at church in Santa Cruz and I'm glad we're a church for everyone.

This weekend Elevation celebrates its one year anniversary, if you're local come celebrate with us. It's been a great ride so far!

Catalyst is a next gen leaders conference and ministry. Some of the Elevation crew will be at the Catalyst Westcoast Conference this year, if you attend make sure we get together there and hang!

The Catalyst folks are doing something unique... they have one of their guys traveling around the country in the VW van you see above talking to leaders of next gen churches on The Catalyst Roadtrip. LV has been driving the van around the country for the last YEAR talking with leaders and ended up crashing at my house last week. The next morning we drove down to Santa Cruz and had a coffee gathering with some local next gen rogue ministry leaders at the Abbey.

It was a cool time of talking about the changes happening in ministry and how many of us are serving in less traditional ways. Here's a link to some quotes from our pow-wow

Hi All, Here's the video about what happened at the Council of Nicaea - it's the full 5 minute video not short clip from the service. Get some popcorn, cuddle up, light a fire and have a romantic church history movie night with your squeeze. Church history...very sexy sexy.