Trips to India, Home Depot, Staples, Lowes, Furniture Stores and a load of other places, plus enough online purches to make the UPS man a friend of the family. Add to that the purchases made by members of the launch team and we just about have all the stuff we need for launch day, which is a good thing.
My garage is full of stuff. Jorge and Dotti's home gym is packed. Next weekend it all goes into the storage areas in Island Cinemas and we start to focus on the really important stage of our preparations.
When it comes to church planting, while I have never seen this stated so bluntly, it's a case of Go big or go home! Launch day decides a lot of things. If you have 25 people there, you will struggle to add to that number and may never get remotely near the 100 mark. If you make a significant impact on day one, the road ahead is a lot easier.
So now our attention is turning to getting word out in the community and that starts with the newspaper ads and the posters that will be appearing this week.
In the end of the day, we have all the literature we need and probably more besides, but it will come down to having the people to get everything out. We have a great launch team and for the next few weeks they will be incredibly busy as we put door hangers on every door, pass out invitations outside the theater, host a Labor Day Fair in the movie theater parking lot and pass out hundreds of coupons for free 7-11 coffees.
The stuff is easy. You find it, pay for it and get it.
Now it's all down to people, their commitment, their time, their effort.
And one day not to far down the road, the words of Churchill after the Battle of Britain will be very relevant - "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Go Team!
