Staff on location

It is increasingly difficult to take Matt out in public. I was pulling this cart with Matt standing on the back for a while before I realized he had climbed into it. I’m thinking I may need to tighten up the screening process for FlipSide staff. These guys are a large part of why I look forward to coming to work

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Love my family!

Here’s my mom and 4 of my 6 aunts. They all came to town this week from around the country. Jen & I spent a couple hours with them at Airlie Gardens today and it couldn’t have been a better day for it. I love my family, they have so much personality its scary. Little did they know while posing for this pic they were sitting in duck poop. Needless to say these smiles didn’t last long. Maybe later I’ll post the resulting images

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Man Night!

*note to John Fuller: you’ve wanted to help with FlipSide - how bout this night

Matthew Ray’s Day By Matthew Forstner

Well today was a fun day for MPR.  first he came into the offices and did stuff i don’t know about because…. I wasn’t here so just make up anything you want.  But once I got to the offices this is what went down.  First he came back from a lunch date (MPR just lied to me) which I heard was a hottie…but i don’t know.  The we took down that massive cross that was on the stage.  And he was wearing this shirt i personally didn’t like but oh well.  After that we got the vans washed and came back to the church and filmed a video.   which was awesome by the way.  Then jesus showed up and we had a party.  After that MPR worked on editing the videos and i spent the rest of the day wasting time and typing this blog.  I know you’re jealous of me but thats ok….cause I’m just cool like that.  well thats all i got to say about that.

Soap and Cheese,

Matthew Forstner

I’m quitting my day job

Everyone join me in giving Derek, Matt & Gary a hand. They gave it a valiant effort

(dont ask for a pic of the game before this one. There’s a reason I didn’t post it

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Let’s get messy.

i sat in a rocking chair on my porch tonight to enjoy the last moments of the days finale. the sound of nothingness drowned out the noise of the day and i was left with just God, myself and some birds to my left turning in for the night. i was very close to climbing on the roof of my house to get a little closer to the stars but decided the trouble wasn’t worth it. i sat there and talked with God for a bit and then tried to shut up so he could do a little talking. he did and i listened. he reminded me how much i need him and how hopeless i am at changing myself without him. it makes me wish more and more that i could just look like jesus. i wish i had his eyes, his heart, his love. i wish i would get over myself more often.

this morning at church bryan mentioned that the death and resurrection of christ could be summed up in one word - Love. when you think about it, everything the world knows about christians seems to revolve around love, be it the absence of it or the presence of it. love is God’s signature on the lives of his followers. the world is looking for that signature to prove our authenticity. for that to happen they must see that we are not indifferent, self-interested or comfort-oriented. as john says, “we must love not in theory or in speech but in deed and in truth.” we were challenged today to let God mess up our world. it’s time to be disturbed. the walls of the local church were never meant to provide a club for the strong but a refuge for the weak.

Another day at the office

Any guy willing to do this MUST have a heart to serve. Matt is the man!! I love my job

Hump Day

Wednesday’s are crazy! I’m sitting here with 2 computer screens in front of me. On one screen I’m putting the final touches on our announcements video for tonight while on the other I’m purchasing another video to illustrate the message. As soon as I finish I’m heading out to pick up some other props to illustrate the message also.  When I get back it’s time to prepare for our youth discipleship meeting at 5:15. An hour after we finish, it’s GAME TIME! FlipSide’s gonna be awesome tonight. I love my job!!

Tuesday’s effortless blog post

Don’t type another key until you’ve read this awesome post from my good friend Kyle Runner.

MiPhone Pic o’ the week

My faithful helpers - mom, jen & matt - sitting at my fancy table to a tasty mom-cooked breakfast. Got everything moved in and several rooms painted in 2 days thanks to these amazing people.

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ZZzzzzz…..

I got most of my stuff moved in to the new house on Friday. Thank you so much Carolyn, Jen, Matt & Mom!! Today I finished moving everything in and then Jen, Matt & myself decided to take on priming & repainting the whole living room and hallway area. We wrapped it up around midnight. YAY! I’m tired now so that’s all I got. Thanks again to all who have helped and to those who wanted too but couldn’t. It’s far from done but we came along way in 2 days. G’night.

Today’s To Do List

8:00a   Wake up

9:00a     Go to the bank

11:00a    Buy a house

12:30p    Begin moving

12:00a    Hopefully go to bed in new house

Wanna help me move?? Comment me

This is 2 blogs in a row!

…That’s gotta be a record for me.

I’m sitting here in the hotel watching the Eliot Spitzer Frenzy on FoxNews. I’m amazed at how skilled the media is at keeping our attention. They can fix their camera at a set of inactive double doors and regurgitate the same information about 47 times in one hour and yet I find myself captivated.

Bryan and I are about to head over to Newspring to see if we can be a part of the volunteer buzz for Unleash. It’s gonna be awesome!!

2 no Onions.

…Thats all you have to say when placing your order at Skin’s in Anderson, SC. Located down the street from the amazing Newspring Church, this dive serves only Hot Dog’s, which makes placing your order very simple. Those who know me know that I don’t ‘do’ Hot Dog’s. Why? Because 530 years later we still don’t seem to know what they’re made of. I gotta say though, a Hot Dog good enough to make me forget that I’m probably eating discarded pig parts is a Hot Dog worth blogging about. Don’t take my word for it, ask Tony Morgan, he blogs about ‘em too.

Chalk this up as the only time you’ll ever hear me say GO SKINS!

C3 4 Me

This place is amazing! From the moment I walked onto Fellowship Churches property and was greeted by the most passionate volunteer parking lot greeter I have ever met, to watching their worship leader literally become a human canvas, these guys haven’t stopped. They have creative juice coming out of their ears! That’s not all though, they have the passion and character to back it up. God-Creativity has a way of turning the heads of the lost and unchurched, and picking the locks on hearts that have been closed. Gods uniqueness in His approach to you and me must be modeled in our approach to the world. Church as we know it has so much more potential than we’ve even begun to understand. The only thing that blows my mind more than what I’ve seen here is what I haven’t seen.

The world is changing.

People are changing.

Issues are changing.

Are we?