Save the Humans

We launched our brand new series to kick off the school year Wednesday night and it was unbelievable! Save the Humans was the brain-child of our Student Pastor, Matt Boone, and the thought was that there are a million causes in the world: Save the Trees, Save the O-Zone, Save the Pandas - but as believers, the one cause we are called to carry out is to Save the Humans. That is what Jesus commanded us to do, so we are just continuing what Jesus did 2000 years ago through the lives of students!

For the start of the series, we really wanted it to be fun and interesting, an environment students would want to invite there friends to. We equipped students with materials to blanket the town with business cards and flyers, each leader had a "Save the Humans" tee shirt with a funny black/white pic of their faces on it, free pizza and soda was given to every student, we made custom spray painted shirts for students, the student with the most first time guests received $100 (a 6th grade from my LifeGroup won!...shut it down!), picket signs were made for leaders to carry around before service (the rain stopped this one, but the thought was good), an awesome video bumper featuring the downfalls of humanity was made by our awesome video guy, the band played Linkin Park's 'What I've Done' and killed it, we did our 'What's Happening' announcement video live from the center of the stage, and Pastor Matt brought the word strong! The night was filled with energy and excitement. Our leaders caught the vision and created a gust of excitement, and our students sucked it all in and were an explosion of energy. By the end of the night, the team was exhausted, but energized by all that had happened, and 38 students took a step towards the cross by accepting Christ as their personal Lord and Savior! That was only the first night of Save the Humans....I can't wait to see all that God has in store for the students of Coral Springs...next week we are making more custom shirts, giving away another $100, TC is bringing the Word, and were having free ice cream sundaes! I cannot wait!