Glorious Mud

It's time to announce the release of Trailhead Church's website 3.0!  At a year-and-a-half in to our church life, we are on our third website - and our web presence is progressively improving in quality and content. I am stoked - our site is attractive, easy to navigate, and packed with information about who we are, what events are happening, and how people can get involved.  Props to Kraig Hufstedler for taking the initiative to build us a new site and build a team to maintain it.  I liked his initiative so much, I rewarded him with a ton more work!  He freelances, by the way... so if your looking, I highly recommend his work! Trailhead Church meets in Edwardsville, IL  and we would love to see you if you want to visit!

I am exhausted and exhilarated.  Tonight was our first meeting in our own space.  It has been a crazy trip - and honestly, one where I spent most of my time just trying to keep up with what God was sending our way.  I mean, really - who would have thought?  A month and a half ago I was getting ready to ink the deal with the Edwardsville school district - we were going to rent one of their middle schools.  It looked like our best, and only, option. Lauren had been praying that God would give us the former US Bank space, but I had almost all but ruled it out.  There had been talk about a possible lead, but there hadn't been any action.  But then, on the last day of the last week, I got a call - we were invited to look at the space.  It is 13,000 square feet right in the heart of downtown.  I asked if we could tear some stuff out and build some walls - and was told yes.  I asked if we could afford it - and, again, the answer was yes (they...