What an awesome weekend! Here's just a glimpse of what happened in Northstar.
Yesterday Northstar launch team members passed out invite bags to the Coon Rapids community to let people know about our grand opening next Sunday. It was a great success and we believe that God will use those popcorn bags, notes from the church, and invite cards to bring someone to Northstar who wouldn't otherwise come.
This morning was our third (and last!) sneak preview service, and again, it was a great success. We continued to have visitors (already!) and are smoothing out the final details before next week's big launch. The launch team (volunteers who help set up and tear down service) has been hard at work to make sure the details of each service come together.
After this week's service, Pastors John and Shannon had a special surprise as they found out that news of today's service and next week's grand opening had hit the Associated Press. That means the story of Northstar's grand opening has gone to newsrooms all over the state and region, possibly even beyond that. Here's a link to just one of the newsrooms who published it.
KSTP picked up the story and developed it further; their coverage ran during tonight's broadcast. Here's a link to that story. (Nice sound bite, Pastor John!)
We believe that the right people saw this coverage and will be intrigued and come to Northstar in the future!
Please be praying for us this week as we prepare for the grand opening. Pray for all aspects of the service, but especially that the right people are there and that God's presence impacts hundreds next Sunday, February 13, 2011, the day of Northstar's official grand opening.
