John Markum

The Awakening turns 2!

This week, two years ago, Edgewood launched it’s first ever Saturday night worship service, “The Awakening.” We had a ton of ideas and dreams, and the opportunity to add a new worship experience to one of the most exciting churches in the Quad Cities. The leadership of Edgewood stood beside us and gave us the chance to begin something that few other churches are willing to take the risk on.

As a result, we have seen God move in incredible ways. We’ve experienced growth in numbers of people coming to Christ, getting baptized, families joining us, and we’re just getting started. The vision to see people far from God awakened with life in Christ beats strong in our hearts and we commit ourselves again to reaching people in the Quad Cities with the Gospel.

Two years have been amazing! Year three… you’ll just have to stick around and see what God does (although I suspect there are some soon-to-be-released posts that will give some hints)!

Join us at Edgewood this Saturday night, 6 pm, for our two year celebration.

To find out more about our Saturday night service, visit our website at www.qcawakening.com

Blessings,

John

Things that make me happy…

  1. My wife’s smile.
  2. My kids running to see me when I come home.
  3. Getting to baptize people.
  4. Seeing someone trust God in a big way.
  5. Seeing my leadership team’s passion.
  6. Hearing people in my ministry geek-out over what God is doing.
  7. Cooking for my wife.
  8. Rocking out to some music and drinking Mt. Dew while brainstorming in my office.
  9. Winning at RISK over xbox live.
  10. My kids laughter.

Things that annoy me…

  1. Running late. Period.
  2. Arguing with my wife. Mostly because it’s probably my fault.
  3. People being ungrateful.
  4. Judgmental people.
  5. Critics who don’t lift a finger to make a difference.
  6. Lying.
  7. Getting talked down to by anyone.
  8. Listening to someone gossip, especially in the form of a prayer request.
  9. Men who think being a jerk makes them look macho. It doesn’t. They just look like jerks.
  10. Women who think being rude makes them look confident. It doesn’t. It just scares any guy in his right mind far away.

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