Craziness
I’m sitting in Vegas overlooking the strip and processing what has been a crazy but awesome week! Our Lead Team was set to head out to the Multi-site Exposed Conference in Seattle on Sunday. The conference was Monday and Tuesday and we were going to leave there and go to Vegas for two days (Wednesday and Thursday) to do some planning for the next year. Vegas was a great choice because it is a cheap flight, cheap rooms, and one of the most creative places around. Since we were on the west coast, we figured it would be a great place to and do some restructuring to our org chart, talk about growth issues, talk about adding a third service and planning out our sermon series for the rest of the year.
So after church on Sunday we rush to the airport to catch a 3:30 flight to St Louis and a 6:00 clock from St. Louis to Seattle. We get on the smallest plane I have ever seen in my life. I literally almost passed out walking on. Each row had one seat on one side and two on the other. Preston is 6′6 and was literally doubled over trying to get on. Once on the plane, it backs away from the gate and it sounds like it hits something. The plane stops and we sit on the runaway for about 30 minutes. After that the pilot gets on and says, “folks our computers are telling us this plane isn’t safe for flight so we are going back the gate and unboarding the plane.” By this time it was 4:15 and our flight in St. Louis was at 6 and that was the last flight to Seattle that evening. After going round and round it became obvious we weren’t making that flight to Seattle and there was no way to fly out in the morning and make the conference.
So we asked them to send us fly us out to Vegas instead so we could get started meeting and planning. We left Atlanta at 6:00 and landed in Chicago around 9. We left Chicago at 10 and landed in Vegas at about 2:30 in the morning. Upon landing we discovered that NONE of our luggage made the flight. At this time we were so freaking tired we just went to our hotel and went to sleep. We got up the next morning and the airline told us they had no idea where our luggage was. We are now stinking, feeling nasty and flat out in a bad mood.
We caught a taxi to Target put some shirts and shorts and came home finally showered. Still no luggage though. We started meeting and it was awesome but I got admit it sucked not having our stuff. We finally got our luggage at about 1 in the morning on Tuesday. It was crazy.
But we have had a GREAT week, learning, dreaming, planning, and refocusing on the vision God has for Revolution Church!!
Ed Young Jr. says “Vegas has nothing to say but knows how to say it. The church has everything to say and doesn’t know say it.” I agree. Vegas is one of my favorite towns and I don’t even gamble. I love the lights, the shows, the thought process behind getting people to buy into it, and I just love the town. We leave out first thing in the morning and we are more focused than ever on how to get the message out that Jesus is the hope of the world!
Pray our luggage makes it to Atlanta. 