Getting Ready

It's Wednesday afternoon at 2pm, and we are making final preparations for our crusade at the Varsity Theater tonight. What an incredible week of sacrifice and commitment it has been!! I'm humbled by the number of people who have given their time, talent, and touch to make this happen. Our teams having been working around the clock since last week...Friday night, a group of Late Niters went to several LSU bars (Fred's and Reggie's) to pass out bottles of water and promotional fliers, and then stayed up all night to set up for the outreach on the parade grounds Saturday. We fed police officers, college students, and even the homeless that passed by our tent!
On Monday night, nearly 60 Late Niters gathered on the campus at the clock tower for prayer and intercession, believing God to make a big splash so desperately needed in this community. I thought about how the Varsity is normally a place where people go to party, drink, look for a good time, escape the pressures of responsibilty...maybe even hide from God. But in 6 hours, the place will be totally transformed...it will become "Holy Ground!" Instead of running from God, they will be running right to Him!!! We're praying that many people will be surprised by the Holy Spirit and come under a different kind of influence tonight!!

Couple of cool stories: Last time we did this event, we had over 600 people show up and a dozen people cross the line of faith. When we were leaving the venue, I overheard one lady say to another, "Is any place safe anymore? Since when did the church start coming to places like this?" I was wondering why we (the chruch) ever left in the first place! Light in a dark world is what God called us to be.

Yesterday, our church receptionist (Mrs.Terri-she's the best!!) received a call from a concerned parent. He said that his daughter told him she was going to church this week at the Varsity. He said, "I thought my daughter was trying to pull one over on me when she said that church was taking place in a bar. So I had to check it out and make sure she was telling me the truth!" Ha! I love that...let's keep being a dangerous church, not afraid to take risks for the kingdom!!