Church at the Triangle - First Look - UPDATE!

After countless prayers and a bunch of sleepless nights, we can FINALLY celebrate Church at the Triangle's first successful FIRST LOOK preview service! A week ago today, we were scrambling the town for a place to hold our First Look Service. We had NO idea God would land us smack dab in the MIDDLE of town in a COMPLETELY public coffee shop. We couldn't have ASKED for a better place to have our service. The owner of the shop (NOT a Christian) let us use her shop for free and told us we could configure it however we wanted, so we did. The VIBE was OFF THE CHAIN!! The room acoustics were amazing, and being the venue that it was, minimal staging and decor was required. Every person who didn't come for "church" definitely stopped to check it out...especially after they ordered their coffee drink and found out that WE comped their bill! Just about all the people we invited came, and people we didn't invite stayed and even helped out with set up and tear down! Raleigh has NEVER seen church done the way it was done this weekend. We started our "What If" Series, and Lee talked about what the world would be like if we TRULY cared for each other, the way God meant for us to care for each other. Our service started at 10:30AM, but by 9:45AM, Carla had already gathered a crowd of people none of us invited, who were just curious about what we were doing!

Our volunteers stepped up in a BIG way and made set up and tear down a cinch! Steve and I had an AWESOME lunch with a "first time guest" couple after the service who want to dive in to ministry with us using their gifts in digital media and graphic design.

We asked God to just blow our minds this weekend, and He did! In a BIG way! We'll continue our First Looks every other weekend until our launch in August. This coming weekend, we're having an "open to the community" concert of prayer. We decided to have this event at the coffee shop as well. It's hard to just SIT and soak everything in when we need to start preparing for next weekend. We had dinner with the Towns last night to debrief and celebrate the day. We all agreed that there was NOTHING we would have changed about the service to make it better than it was...God seriously rocked our world!

I'm so honored and humbled that God brought us here to be part of such HUGE kingdom building!









Thanks to all of you who prayed for our service this weekend! You played just as big of a role as any of us here in Raleigh!