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Sneak peek at "Lift You High" Video

Lift You High (Live Worship Clip) from Celebration Church on Vimeo.

Highway to Hell

AWWW YEAH!  This was the opening at Easter services at New Spring Church in South Carolina.  Love these guys!  GO JESUS!!

HIGHWAY2HELL_JUSTIN from Jiggle Snort on Vimeo.

Spiritual Family

Get together with your Spiritual Family this weekend and go crazy for God!!

Why We Get Stoked on Easter...

You may have seen this before, but give it a spin to get stoked for Easter!!  GO JESUS!!

My Fasting Journal Entry

AWWW YEAH!  Day 17 of the Awakening Season of Fasting!  So stoked to be deep in the heart of the fast.  I wanted to post a quick synapses of my thoughts.

Physically, I'm doing great.  I've been on the Daniel fast, with some nuts and protein mixed in.  Also, a few all-water days for focus.  There's not much stomach-based hunger left now.  Went surfing yesterday.  I feel lighter and stronger than I have in a long time.  I've lost almost 20 pounds.  The Wii Fit told me the other night that it was "concerned about how quickly I'm losing weight..."  Sometimes, technology just doesn't understand. :)

Spiritually, I'm finding that my priorities need some adjustment.  Funny how the pressure of the fast always reveals that!  I'm making some changes in how much time I spend with God and people, versus technology and tasks.  I'm also trusting Jesus' word: his yolk is easy and his burden is light.  I realize that I've been shouldering more than my share of His ministry lately, and it's been taking it's toll.  Praise the Lord: Carrie and Jesus are so patient with me!

I've caught myself obsessing about winning every single person on planet earth to Christ, even during those times when I should be focused on the sweet smell of my daughters' hair, or how they both love butterflies and puzzles.  Sure, I want to see souls saved and lives changed!  However, I am making it a priority to refocus my attention on my family during family times.  The balance is available, but I haven't been searching it out.  It's all about the balance.

May God allow you to find the perfect balance for your life.  To enjoy Him in the glorious moments when it seems like the whole world is getting saved!  And may you also enjoy Him in the quiet, intimate moments of butterflies and puzzles.

Pastor Wade's Bike Ministry

So stoked about Pastor Wade Johnson's bike ministry in Jax Beach!  Check it here:

Preaching this Weekend!

I'm amping right now to preach in our weekend services!  So stoked about the Word to share: from Matthew 13:43-46: The Parable of the Hidden Treasure. 

You can watch or listen to "The Treasure is Worth It" on celebration.org!

Thanks for your prayers!!!!  AWWW YEAH!!

Miracle Offering Weekend is HERE!!

When you hear the words "Miracle Offering," it can be easy to dismiss as a religious ritual.  "Miracle" has become a somewhat Christian-ized term and lost much of its Supernatural mystique.  "Offering" is something that most people think belongs in pews and has no power.  However, this weekend at Celebration, we are all bringing our best offering to mix with God's miraculous power.

Why?

Global Mandate.

We are building a new ministry hub: a base of operations to impact the entire world for Jesus Christ.  WOW!  What an honor.

 

Since moving into our current hub 4 years ago, we've been able to mobilize people and resources in the Name of Jesus to do some of these incredible things:

• go from 2 campuses locally to 9 gobally
• in our weekend services, we've seen 14,137 people devote their hearts and lives to Jesus!!
• we host 100 services each week (9 at campuses, 46 at extension gatherings)
• 40,000 individuals have come to a service
• 845,600 labor hours have been put into the Gospel by our staff and volunteers
• 30,000 people have clean water in remote nations through well drilling
• 5 million meals have been served to AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe
• 42,000 labor hours have been put into missions
• we've helped plant 66 churches (total membership =100,000 people, sowing a total of $40 million into missions... in the past 4 years!)
• 20 million households have access to Celebration services via TV in the US, Europe, and Australia

Miracles everywhere.

Can I say how humbled I am that God would allow Carrie and I to serve in a movement like this?!!!  So, as we look at everything God has done through us in our current facilities... we imagine what is yet to come!! 

"Greater things have yet to come, greater things are yet to be done in this city..." -Chris Tomlin

To find out more, visit our Imagine blog!!  Props to all of you who have participated in Celebration's ministry! It's an honor to serve alongside you!

AWWW YEAH!

Sweet Article in the Paper!!

WORD!  We got a little press coverage in the Times-Union this week, along with our good friends at Beaches Vineyard...

Check out the article here!

3 Weeks of Jesus Freaks

The past twenty-one days have been an incredible Jesus experience.

On July 25, we kicked it off by leaving for our Element mission trip to Costa Rica.  Our high schoolers caught the fire of God as we served our Tico friends in San Jose.

We came back on July 31st into the middle of 10 days of churchwide prayer and fasting, with a mind-blowing prayer service of 1000 people!

On Tuesday, August 5th, Carrie started back to work with a new staff position at Celebration!  AWESOME!!

The fast ended on Wednesday, August 6th with Hillsong London in concert.  What an incredible time worshipping God with our Brothers and Sisters from the other side of the pond!

After another powerful set of weekend services, we launched into Rush Week.  Rush Week consists of four days of youth ministry combining all of our local campuses.  We averaged about 300 students each night!  We saw our Youth go to a whole notha level with God.  We baptized over 60 students and saw so many more committing themselves to live loud as Christians.  Our weekly Element meetings will never be the same!

After Rush we went straight into Flex, where over 800 men gathered to get stoked on being men of God!  Pastor Joe Champion from Celebration Church in Texas brought the heat!  The theme of the weekend seemed to be that what God does with us in the prayer closet will drive our public ministry to our friends and family.  After the word on Saturday, we split into two groups and tackled some ministry projects in downtown Jax and King St. in St. Augustine.

Did I mention that, in the middle of all this, whole limbs just stone-cold started FALLING out of our 60-foot-tall sycamore and we had to get it removed?

Just wrapped up another great weekend of ministry where Pastor Stovall preached and bunches of people gave their lives to Jesus.

Today, the 3 weeks concluded with a bang: we sent Hannah and Rana off to school!  Rana is in school for the first time, K4.  She's loving it, and so are we: we are officially "empty nesters" on Monday mornings.  We went on a breakfast date!!

Praise God for high-output seasons like these where we get to witness so much life change at once!