What A Difference A Year Makes... (Part II)

This past weekend was the final weekend of Macon's Cherry Blossom Festival. It was during the final week of last year's Cherry Blossom festival that Amy and I first entered the Capitol Theater.
So - this past weekend was - One year later.
One year later and the 567 Cafe had its first big night. We saw a steady flow of traffic, are displaying the art of 2 Macon artists, and had several musicians play the 567 stage. The 567 is a beautiful cafe (which is really my office during the week). Many of our visitors commented on how great it was to see life in the old building, vacant and boarded up for quite some time.

On a side note - One Year Later and with the 567 we have
already broken Health Dept rules and might be in trouble -

Ooooops!

One year later and we had our highest weekly attendance - 134 on Sunday (we are averaging 106).

One year later and we have a strong core group going through Tim Keller's Gospel Christianity. This week we studied sin - great discussion - great time of growing and learning together - great study in theology.
One year later and I am already having the joy of helping some other church planters think through their own plants. I have been talking with a planter in Newnan, a planter in Denver, and with a couple of young guys who are plugging into NCCd with the hopes of one day planting a church themselves.

This is really amazing! It was not until May 22 that I was even able to talk publicly about the church plant.