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Wow, what a great Easter! Online! We had tons of people join us online at New Hope Internet Campus this past weekend. We started on Friday night with our Good Friday service. Due to problems with our internet feed, we ended up streaming via a Sprint Aircard and had to utilize justin.tv. This was a first for us, but it turned out good. Because justin.tv is a very popular site that anyone with a video camera can stream on, we opened ourselves up to many unchurched people. Since we were routing all of our streaming video traffic to their site, we quickly became the number one site on their main page. Lot’s of people checked out our services, and we were able to engage in some very interesting conversations. Lot’s of people had questions about God, and about Christianity. Our Good Friday service turned into an evangelistic outreach! The great thing is that several of the people who found us through this very secular website, came back and joined us for our Easter Services Saturday and Sunday! What a success!

Speaking of our Easter Services, they were over the top!! Our high speed internet connection worked flawlessly. We also streamed via justin.tv as part of our evangelistic outreach. Several more people stopped by and were Blessed by the services.

I have talked about having a pioneer spirit on many of my past blogs at different sites. Last week, Pastor Wayne shared about having a pioneer spirit and it hit the nail right on the head!! Here is a few of the points that he made:

1. •Japanese Word “Kaizen” means to be continuously improving, “Quality” is a way of life, making improvements and upgrades is a part of your everyday living.

2. •As staff, we need to be constantly improving, always asking ourselves “What can I do to better myself?”
3. •Once you reach a place and think it’s static, you’re obsolete. The world will go right by you.
4. •Obsolete is a mindset. We have to change our mindsets.
5. •Life is when the current is walking against you. When you start giving in to the current rushing against you, all of a sudden you’ll feel like you’re in the middle of Niagara Falls.
6. •Keep a mindset that you’re going to improve.
7. •In ministry, you have to keep a pioneer spirit.
8. •As soon as you move from a pioneer to a settler, you’re finished.
9. •Settlers build their settlement and make it better and better but before you know it, you’re making things better but it’s just for yourself.
10. •Take joy in improving and getting better.
11. •Stay in step with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a pioneer ~ not static, isn’t a settler.

This is right in-line with the lesson we learned this weekend about using justin.tv as an improvement. Now we are glad that the internet gave us problems on Friday. We were forced to pioneer, and then God used that to actually improve us!

In Christ!