Last night, we had our 1st membership class, Starting Pointe. We met at the Joe Dumar's Fieldhouse. This location has so many stuff - 2 hockey floors, 6-7 basketball courts, plus a huge inside area for adventure putt-putt, arcades, rock climbing walls, etc. So, when we arrived to Joe Dumar's, there were two hockey games going on, every basketball courts were being used, and the fun area was packed full of people!
We met in a restaurant's meeting room and was just big enough to hold 60 people who came! I'm amazed of the turnout! We ate first and then after dinner, we dismissed the 10-12 kids. Honestly, we didn't know what the kids were going to do. The original plan was to let the kids play in one of the enclosed basketball court, but when we got there, it was being used. So, Joe Dumar's hooks us up by letting the kids do all the fun stuff - for FREE! It also helps that one of our newest members of Lakepointe is the assistant manager.
Meanwhile, I spend time with about 50 adults for about 2 hours. I was a little blunt about church and about who we are and about what we EXPECT. I think many churches make the mistakes to not share expectation because they don't want to push people away - I believe those churches will pay later. Anyway, at the end of the night, this was our results:
- 48 new members!
- 7 decisions for baptism!
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