Ed Buford - Just Another Geek

A Safe Place

I'm happy to belong to a church where the main message is that people matter, that you matter, to us and to God.

Check out this video clip and you'll see a story about someone who has found a safe place learn that he matters to God.

The staff at work made me cry today.

There is a weekly staff meeting at GCC, and during that meeting someone will often be called to sit on the “Hot Seat”, where the staff can ask you questions about your life, your family, and most anything. Then they shift gears and tell you what they like or love about you. Today they asked me to sit in that seat and then they made me cry.

It made me aware of just how much I love these people and consider them my own family.

Thanks Family!

Gone Home

There are times when there just aren’t works to say, this is one of those times. Doug Coney has gone home to be with the master he served so well. The void he leaves behind will not be filled; he will be sorely missed by all who knew him. I look forward to laughing with him again. Until then I will live a richer life, because I knew him.

Coolest Church in the world

If I told you that I belong to the coolest church in the world I’m certain you’d think me biased. Well I guess I am. I’ve been at Granger Community Church for three years now and I’ve worked at GCC for a year now as the Network Admin, and I love it, but I’m not alone, the average weekend attendance of Men Women and children is around 6000; with another 1300 or so showing up on Thursday night for New Community. We’ve just opened the new addition of the building and at the same time we launched a new series entitled “War of the Worlds”. Right now there is 6’ diameter meteor on the stage. Along with a set that is out of this world.

Photo by Kim Volheim

Photo by Kim Volheim

What a Night!

Last Night was the first night in the new auditorium, and new children’s space. It was phenomenal. The sound techs worked all day yesterday adjusting the sound to near perfection, and the first corporate worship in the full auditorium was just awesome.

The new stage is huge and our pastors will get a real workout as they try to address the audience on each side of the stage. Just a few short days ago it was unconceivable that the auditorium would be ready last night, but it was and it was wonderful! There are still many things visibly left undone throughout the new addition and everyone has been working feverishly to see it to the end. There are children’s rooms which will require much more work to go live Saturday night; but God is in control and those rooms will either be completed or they won’t and there will be little we can do to change that. I vote to just let God be God and sit back and watch it come together. At any rate I want to say that I’m so happy to see what God is doing! What a blessing to see the hand of God in the land of the living!