Lifehouse Dramatic Dance

I found this video on GodTube.com. It is a great dramatic dance that speaks of God's willingness to take on our transgressions and free us from sin.

An Opportunity To Share

It finally happened. I had an opportunity to share the saving grace of Jesus with Joe.

Joe is a guy I met about 5 months ago, while hanging out at Panera Bread one morning. He is small business owner and we have had a number of conversations regarding business and life in general. This past Monday morning, while at Panera for my usual plain bagel and coffee, I was reading through a youth games book in preparation for our upcoming youth group meeting at our church. When he entered the cafe, he came over and sat down and asked what I was reading. I told him about my involvement as a youth leader at our church. That is when he began to ask me about my church and our beliefs. It was a perfect opportunity to share with him Christ sacrifice for us and the redemption that is possible through his shed blood.

Joe, informed me that "he believed in the Lord", but that his experience with the church was not a good one. Therefore he didn't attend anywhere, but knew that he should. His continued conversation with me about his experiences shed light on a perfect example of another person who has be disenfranchised with the church and most Christians.

What is great about our relationship and this opportunity is the fact that our spiritual conversations have begun with his questioning. It began with a relationship that the Lord had established. Joe is interested and I am praying that his interest will continue as we have further conversations.

Badcock Annual Dealer Meeting

W. S. Badcock executives on set during show rehearsals.

This past weekend, NFocus produced and directed the W. S. Badcock Annual Dealer Meeting. This years meeting was held at the Gaylord Resort in Orlando, FL. Over 900 persons were in attendance for the weekend. The new format for this years meetings was well received. You can view more images from the weekend by going to our Flickr account at www.flickr.com/photos/nfocuswork.

Labor Day Weekend

Jimmy and Drew at Turner Field prior to a Braves game.

Drew and Jimmy at Dave & Busters.

What a hectic but fun-filled weekend. We started it off with Jimmy playing in his high school marching band at the Friday night football game. This was his first time marching with the band and playing in the stands during the game. He loved it. Shortly after the third quarter, we headed off to Atlanta. Jimmy had a 9:00 am soccer match the next morning, as part of the Atlanta Cup tournament. We drove all night, with Elyshia and I take basically 2 hour shifts at the wheel. We arrived at Mom and Dad Faulkner's house at 6:00 a.m. We had just enough time to get a quick shower and head off to the soccer complex, which was an hour south.

We spent most of the day Saturday at the soccer complex. Jimmy's team won their first match 2-0 and tied their second match of the day 0-0. They would need to win or tie their next match on Sunday to advance to the semi-finals. That evening we just hung around the Faulkner's house for some much needed rest.

Sunday morning we awoke earlier to make the hour drive and be at the fields by 7:00 a.m. for a 8:00 a.m. match. The boys played well, but we fell to a very good team 2-0. We were done for the tournament. Jimmy scored 2 goals and had 1 assist on the weekend.

After the match, Jimmy thought it would be a great idea to go to the Braves game that afternoon. With a 1:05 start time we head straight to Turner Field. Jimmy, Drew and I had a great time watching the game from the cheap seats and just hanging out at the field. It was breast cancer awareness day at the park, so to start the game they had 250 cancer survivors lining the infield and releasing balloons. I thought of our friend Kelly. It was a good afternoon.

Sunday evening, Elyshia, Drew, Jimmy and Mom Faulkner headed to Dave & Busters, while I did some work and Dad got some rest (he had not been feeling well all day). They had a great time.

Monday morning we slept in a little and got on the road around 9:30 a.m. for the 7 hour drive home. It was a great weekend.