LEGOLAND Recap Part II

Back from a mini vacation and feeling refreshed and revived, ready to rock n roll. You can check out the LEGOLAND pictures just above this post. It's so hard to put into words what took place last week. It was an event that felt more like a mission trip. The way the body of Christ worked seemed like it was straight from Acts 2. People were worshipping, serving, giving (of their time, energy, and money), sharing, caring, teaching, encouraging, and then we got to see God move into the hearts of 70 kids for the first time in their lives. That Rox!!! Here are some LegoLand fun and random facts for you:

• We used about 1,000,000 legos.
• We had an 8,000 sheet paper fight.
• We smashed over 20 pies in peoples faces.
• We watched 8 leaders eat peanut butter off of plexi glass.
• We had inflatable water slide that was bigger than our 28 foot building.
• We served over 660 kids.
• We saw close to 230 volunteers serve throughout the week. Thank you so much volunteers for all your hard work and servanthood, you all ROCK!
• We witnessed 70 first time decisions.
• We think over 600 learned the verse of the week which is John 15:13 "The greatest love a person can show is to lay down his life for his friends."
• We passed out thousands of "Keep On Brickin" encouragement stickers. When a child did something good/positive a leader would give them a "Keep On Brickin" sticker and send a note home to the parents telling them what their child had done.
• We met 100's of new kids.
• We saw over 30 new families come to our church during last Saturday night's service alone.

Now in ministry a lot of people get weird when talking about numbers (big or small) and I sort of get that but as long as each number has a face and soul I will always be about numbers because Jesus is about numbers. That's why in Luke 15 He went after the 1 lost sheep. Here are a couple true stories about some #'s. We'll call this one #248: his mom just left him 2 weeks ago for good and a friend invited him to LegoLand and one thing led to another and this 5th grader gave his life to Jesus. Story # 412 During the school year kid A makes fun of kid B for reading the bible and believing in God. Long story short kid A came to LegoLand and gave his life to Jesus and now of course believes in God. There are so many stories of God just showing up and doing miracles in the lives of these kids. I am in AWE of all God has done, is doing, and will continue to do in this community. If you have a story from last week please share by commenting on this post or emailing me @ dustin@fellowshiporlando.com We'd really like to hear what God did for your child, you as a parent, or you as a volunteer. Thank you Lord for a week we can only describe as "God showed up".