2008...A Happening Year! (52 Highlights)

I will make it an annual blog tradition to look back over the year and name the highlights. I took time today to look back over my blog since January and re-read some of the memories. It was actually a profoundly moving experience! I kept having to double check that I was still reading the correct year. Overall sense in a statement: 2008 was one happening year!! It seems as though there were enough memories and experiences to spread over 5 years. Wow! Well, here they are...the 52 highlights of 2008 (ministry, family, personal, all included in the list...diverse representation of the year):

1. Loving Jesus
   
2. Loving Tricia
3. Loving Davis
   
4. Vision Casting! Message, series, meetings, discernment....
5. Davis turning 1
6. Relationship Weekend with Ron and Trevor Hall
7. Day spent with Rick Warren
8. Upper Room completed and opened!! (And paid for!!!)
9. Moving my office upstairs
10. Pastor Mike's ministry among us. (and his quick goodbye)
11. A new pulpit!
12. Getting locked in my office
13. Easter 2008; Revivify your passion
14. Visiting Seacoast Church
15. Finalizing our new Purpose Statement
16. Pottery Sunday with live Potter
    
17. International Sunday; Message in a Bottle
18. Momentum Message, first ever video sermon
19. Mom and Dad's 40th
20. Drive Conference 2008
21. Postponing my Sabbatical
22. Speaking at the LCS Commencement
23. I met Twitter!
24. Being Garth Brooks on a cruise
25. Falling in love with Corn Hole (and making our very own CCF set)
26. One Heart Series
27. VBS; God's Big Backyard
28. Moving! (no small task)
    
29. Cardboard Testimony Sunday
30. Welcoming the Kauffman's to CCF (our new Bishop)
31. Friend Day 2008
32. Merging to ONE service
33. Launching Sunday Small Groups (Which have been a big win!)
    
34. Making Connections Curriculum (Go Nelson!)
35. Launching our NEW CCF Website!
36. Celebrating my one year Blogiversary
37. Growing with our Thursday Small Group
38. Growing with my Sunday Small Group
39. Creating our first ever Annual Ministry Map for 2009
40. Development of the Ministry Leaders Team
41. Getting a John Deere!
42. Attending Willow Creek Group Life Conference in Chicago
43. Church Retreat
44. Obama elected as President
45. Habakkuk Message Series
46. Christmas Party & Production; A Twisted Christmas
47. Hiring Caleb as Director of Worship
    
48. Hiring TC as Youth Pastor
49. Hiring Tricia as Director of Children's Ministry
50. Positive shifts in CCF Culture
51. Worshiping together every weekend
52. Transformed lives!!