All the Things - Events, Schedules and things for BCCC

One of the best parts about not monetizing or worrying about a grand audience for this podcast is that we can literally do what we are led to do with it. On this week's podcast, Scott and Dan discuss upcoming events, weekly and monthly ministry happenings and why we do them!

If you want to know more about the inner workings of all these events and have a background heads-up on what's happening at BCCC, this is the podcast for you!

Produced, edited and hosted by Scott Askew and Dan Daugherty

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:16

Hey everybody, it's the Creek Cast with Dan and Scott. We are so thankful you were here with us today. We have an opportunity to talk about some upcoming events in the church and things uh we just wanted to kind of communicate. We find more and more that people um we like surprise them with things that we've been doing for a long time. So we thought maybe a podcast would help with that. Dan, you doing good today?

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Awesome. We um so we won't be getting in deep into any theology probably today unless we just get on a side topic, which is always possible.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

It's it's it's uh yeah, it's probably a likelihood, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 0:51

But uh anyway, we'll we'll see what we can do. But we did want to talk about a few things. Um we had some new folks to our Wednesday morning program uh this morning, and we've had questions earlier in the week about events that we do on a monthly basis, and so we just thought maybe it'd be good to go over our calendar, talk about why we do some things we do, and uh just to kind of feed the uh summer is I think we look at summer sometimes as taking off. Yeah, um that doesn't happen. That does not click with us. Uh we we tend to have events, but we're also not a church that does events just for event needs. And um, so we're gonna be sharing a lot about why we do what we do and uh why these things are important to us, and uh some of them more so maybe than others, but um I there's such value in all these things. Uh and we're gonna stretch it out to August 1st because we have a large event on August 1st, and that'll be the last one we talk about today, and then maybe in a few months we'll come back after August and talk about our fall schedule. Um, but we just thought a summer schedule overview would be a good thing today. So hopefully we can answer some questions for you. And if you have any questions, you're welcome to ask Dan or I or Joy or Taryn or Kevin or the Elders or a whole bunch of ministry leaders. We got people all over the place who know what's going on. So, Dan, where are we gonna start? I we want to start with weekly events, just things that go on on a weekly basis.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Yeah. Um, I I think too, before before we get into that, just uh um if you're newer to Broad Creek, um uh there's a lot to get involved in. Yeah. Um and again, we don't we don't try to keep busy. Um everything's done with purpose. Uh and we're not afraid to kill programs either. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

We'll we'll murder our darlings, as Kipling said.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

Yeah. Um if it's if it's not producing what uh it should be producing according to the mission that we believe God has given us as a church. That's right. Um we are we are more than willing to to say, you know what? It was a good run.

SPEAKER_03 2:51

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Um and so uh that said, uh, if you're not at Broad Creek and you're listening to us, uh please continue listening. Um we uh this podcast, yeah, we're not getting into real deep theological issues. We do have some coming up, yeah. Um that you know maybe we'll uh just so that you're kind of aware, we're looking at, you know, roles of women and in ministry and in church leadership. Uh we'll be looking at uh spiritual gifts uh at you know, at the uh the kingdom, you know, what is the kingdom, that type of stuff. So um so those things are coming. Um, but I think every now and again it's good for us to kind of hone in on you know our church uh DNA a little bit. Absolutely. So um, so yeah. Uh but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

Because the and and I agree with Dan, we do things not to do things. I I've been involved in churches that did things. And when to be completely honest, when I got here, there were a few things that we were doing that when I sat in meetings and we asked why, yeah, and then we heard people come up and say, Well, yeah, I've always wondered why we did this. Right. And so those things we have actually killed over the years. We've we've let them go.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

Which I thought were really cool. Like when I first got here hearing about it, like you know, dropping Easter eggs from a helicopter. It was cool.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

It was really it was amazing. But I remember the first and I thought, man, this is fantastic. And families gathered around the field, and we were holding the rope. And when the helicopter came and dropped the eggs, it was awesome, it was amazing. And we dropped the rope, and I'm not kidding, the kids just ran in, grabbed eggs, ran to their vehicles, and drove away. And I was going, We had no connection to any. I mean, they and so I I started asking questions, and everybody agreed with it. Everybody had the same idea. It was just everyone was kind of like, Well, this is what we've done, and we don't want to buck the trend. And that's fine. I get that, I really do, and I love them. But when we decided not to do it, things became a little simpler.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

If I'm honest, I was looking forward to if we ever did that again, just saying, get to the chopper, get to the chopper.

SPEAKER_02 4:57

Get the eggs. We could do that. Dan would be the one we would dress up like. Get to the eggs. That's Arnold Schwitchenager's encouragement for today. Um gosh, when is this gonna? I can't do Dom Deloise. No, not Domes. What's this? What's the guy's name who does the mics um subs?

SPEAKER_01 5:20

Oh, uh gosh, my name is Dom Deloise. Anyway, um I give you an alpha view.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

Yeah, that was that was um um that was uh Marlon Brando.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

Yeah, but uh but Don Delawise does that impression with it. It was in one of the movies I saw.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

You're older than I am. Um you're not, but you are uh anyway.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

I'm old, you're an old fart.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Most of the time, that's true. Uh so let's jump into weekly events. Weekly events are things that we do on a weekly basis, they happen every week, and just to kind of fill you in on some of the things that we do, and we may miss something. If we miss something, please uh yell at us. Yeah, we're sorry that we that we missed it. Um so we start, of course, with our church services 8:45 and 11. And in between is a Kinect class. And and guys, we instituted Kinect now, what, a year and a half ago? Two years ago.

SPEAKER_01 6:16

About two years ago now.

SPEAKER_02 6:17

About two years ago, and um connect classes. If you want to call them Sunday school classes, you get the gist um of what they are. But connect classes we design to be Bible teaching classes. We want we want to teach the Bible accurately and intelligently. We want to make sure that people are learning the Bible. And those Kinect classes are really important to us because it would be really easy just to have worship services, but you can't learn the Bible in a worship service the way you can in a connect class. And so right now, Dan, so what you're teaching.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

I'm tea I'm teaching uh Life Way's got a uh program called Um Oh good and grief. I just um it's about the book of John, right? Yeah, well well we're we're in uh we're in a it's units, and so okay, so we're looking at the Jesus' ministry right now through using the book of John right now. Um but uh basically the whole the whole point of the the life way stuff is that we're uh it's a scope and sequence, so it's like three or four years we will go through the whole Bible.

SPEAKER_02 7:21

Right.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Um and then for the life of me, I cannot think Bible project. Yeah, Bible project no isn't there what it is? Bible project project.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Gospel project. It's a project, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Somebody asked me about it earlier. The yeah, the Bible project. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, by life way. Uh anyway, um not to be mistaken for Bible project website that does the videos.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

Right, that does the videos and is yeah, uh what's the space?

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Maybe I gave the wrong information to that person earlier. Let me hear. I hate when I do that. So let me let me check real quick.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

We're um so what we did with the Bible project is it's actually being taught with um our youth as well.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

The gospel project.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

So it's the gospel project.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

The gospel project. I need to text somebody real quick.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

So okay, so the gospel project is being taught throughout our um age groups. So every age group in our church is is studying basically the same lessons, and it goes up to the adults. Now, as well in Connect Class, we offer a secondary adult class. Let's say that you um don't necessarily want to study that section in uh the gospel project that they're learning at that time, and you can take a another class, and right now Rob Anderson is teaching a class. I think is it first Peter he's teaching right now?

SPEAKER_01 8:44

First Peter.

SPEAKER_02 8:45

Yeah, so he's teaching a class um uh on first Peter.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Second Peter. Okay, second Peter.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

So so we have options and um and we have those things, and it's all found in our in our website and notes.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Um but um yeah, you have options and we had a financial class um uh during that time uh a little bit ago. Uh the the whole point of the connect uh is to connect connect God to connect to God and connect to others. That's right. Uh one of the things we hear a lot of is because we have two services that I don't know so you know, I didn't I just met somebody that's been going to the second service or the first service and they didn't know that they existed.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

And um so they've both been attending the same church for 15 years for 15 years, yeah. And meet in the store. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:27

And they're like, you should come to church with me. What church do you go to? Broad Creek. Well, I go to Broad Creek too. And you know, and it's happened. That has really happened. Um so it's a way to connect with others, uh, but but more importantly, I think, you know, being over education for I and I'm I'm huge in education anyway, um, but we've got to be we've got to be a church that is more than just a Sunday morning experience at a worship service. Because like you said, the worship service is not designed for deep discipleship. Right. Um, and I think that's one of the the things that we get mixed up with church in general is that, you know, and we've got the spectrum of of what this belief is now, but there's churches that that cater to only visitors and non-non-believers. Yep. And then there's churches that don't they don't really welcome that's right, like non-believers and closed off. They're closed off. Uh we we believe church is for the believer. Yeah. But we also know that there are non-believers in, which is why you hear the gospel presented every week.

SPEAKER_03 10:26

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

Um, for those that that have never responded to the gospel.

SPEAKER_03 10:30

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

Uh, but church is for you to come as a believer to uh meet with your brothers and sisters in Christ, to uh edify each other, to edify um uh what God's doing, um, to be encouraged and to be equipped.

SPEAKER_03 10:45

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Um, to go and take a message out to the to the lost, to bring them into the into the grace of Jesus. And so um that's not discipleship. Right. And so uh these classes are ways that you can grow a little bit deeper. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

And they're and they're so look, growing up, I had Sunday school. I the the what we want to teach the kids is all the Bible stories. Right. And when they get older, they'll learn how the all those stories tie together. Right. And that's that's a proper and comprehensive, simplistic way to look at Bible education within the church. We want them when they graduate from high school to have the Bible stories and also have the whys. Yes. Why does he why it matters. And um, because we don't want them going to college having someone telling them, oh, this matters and this is why it matters, and they can't produce. Yeah, they can't defend what they believe. And so we want them to be able to think through it and and to be able to articulate a response.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

Right.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

Um, and um sometimes we force feed people into it. So these classes are designed for that, and they're designed to help. We have them for teenagers all the way down uh to youth, and um, they're all studying the same things, not not the same way, but the same things. Yep, yep, and uh so that the kids can go home and talk to the parents.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

So if yeah, if if we're if you're in my class in the in the big room, the the the sanctuary, quote unquote, uh the worship center, um, you will you will be learning the same thing that your three or four or yeah, three or four, five, six, seven, eight-year-old will be learning.

SPEAKER_02 12:14

Yeah, same Bible structure, same scriptures, yeah, same stuff.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

Now, if you said it in my class, sometimes we don't have the whole 50 minutes. Right. Um, which is fine. Um, and so I I improvise a lot. Like, so we we never actually go through the entirety of the lesson that's let that's I kind of allow um the Holy Spirit to guide the conversation that um I prepare, I'm prepared, um, that type of thing. But uh sometimes we get to talking about things and and that is that becomes the evident uh to me, it's the that's the evidence of where we need to be going. That's right. Because there's more than one person that's has this question, or there, you know, and so like we give room for that, but um, yeah, we we stick to the passage, we talk about the subject uh matter that we're talking about. So this year, this week was this year. Uh this week was um uh when Jesus turns water into wine. And I had to preface that with because inevit inevitably the alcohol issue comes up when you start talking about that. And so I had to preface the whole lesson with this is what I believe about it. Yeah, um, you're free to have your own belief system with it, uh, but this is biblically what it means. Yeah. Um, and so and then we went on from there.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

And and when he says we went on from there, he brought wine. Yeah. And they no, I'm kidding. No, no, you didn't have a party. Um, we're just kidding. He didn't have that. You'll have 70 people in that class this weekend. That's cool. That's cool. Usually we're about 25 to 30. So uh and he also has to deal with the master of time, yeah, the timekeeper. We won't say his name, Brian Potter. Right. But anyway, um, no, Brian does a good job of keeping it.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

He comes in and he looks at me and he goes, points to his watch, which he doesn't. I don't think I don't think he wears a watch.

SPEAKER_02 14:00

I don't think he wears a watch, but but he keeps it in his head. Um so anyway.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

No, it's good. Otherwise, I would I would go on forever.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

So and I and yeah, I understand that because I would too. Um so that's our church service of connect class. On Sunday evenings, we have youth group, um, and that's from five to seven, and that may undergo a change coming up in a month, so keep your eyes on that. But youth group is for sixth graders all the way up to seniors in high school and uh play games, have good discussion. Uh, I really enjoyed this past Sunday night because I've been sitting in with them a little bit, and um, we did kind of an AMA on different things, and I was able to uh answer a bunch of questions, just good questions. And uh if you give teens a chance, they'll ask good questions. Yep, that's right. And um, so we had a good time with that.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Um I I did the same thing in my uh uh theology class because we're done, we're done with our book. Uh and so I I didn't ask me anything for last Thursday and then this this Tuesday. And I literally said anything. It doesn't have to be theology related, anything like that. So yeah, it's it's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 15:03

What's the fastest land mammal? Um the cheetah. Um so during the week we have small groups. Um, and while honestly, we could do a whole episode on small groups. Which we might. Um, which we yeah, we probably should. We probably should. Um, especially coming into the fall, because a lot of some of our small groups are gonna be taking off the summer. I know ours is, um, I think Judy and Rob are and some others. So we generally try to take off for the summer because attendance becomes spotty because people are going places and doing things, and um, and we're coordinating with uh the youth group to try to figure out what night of the week uh they're gonna meet. So, anyway, long story short, um our small groups though are still important to us even during the summer. And if you're interested in attending a small group, hosting a small group, or facilitating a discussion, we talk we don't say teaching because what we do is with the sermon, we have um study guides and devotionals and we give them to you. And really all it is is reading scripture and then asking questions. And um, and you don't have to be the Bible scholar to do that. That's right. We just ask that you're a you're a Christian um who's willing to lead and and we'll train you in it, we'll talk to you about it. That's right. Um Wednesday morning Bible study happens every week at 10 a.m. Uh, and that's for anybody who's available to come at 10 a.m. If you're a mother, mom who stays home with a baby, you're welcome to come and and just keep the baby. And honestly, some of our folks probably love to hold the child. But um uh this morning we had a 30-year-old and uh a couple of new folks. My son comes to it. Uh we have a young lady who comes to it. I mean, it's anybody who's available can come. We have donuts and coffee and uh have a good time. Yeah, and then uh Wednesday evening deeper, um, that's for high schoolers and young adults. And um that's I just meet with them for an hour, and right now we're studying the book of Galatians, and so it's at five o'clock on Wednesdays right here at the church. If you want to know whether we're meeting at the church or not, because sometimes we take off and go to Sonic or we'll go to Cookout or and we'll hang out at the big table at cookout and eat, you know, corn dogs and talk, and so uh, but we have a good time.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

How how young are you talking about? Or how how old for young adults?

SPEAKER_02 17:08

Generally for young adults, like right now, I think the oldest young adult we have is probably 21 who's coming. Um, really, I think that class would be comfortable up to about 25. Um, and we don't have any young high schoolers coming to it. And I I'm afraid to say, I think most ninth and tenth graders who would think about coming would come and they would find that it might be because I'm not gonna water anything down in there. It's for that age group. So I think ninth and tenth graders might find it a little above them. Um, but that's okay. That's why we have youth groups. And so um, and the older ones, the juniors and seniors, they do both generally. So um it it really is geared to to help bridge that gap. We have a connect class that deals with that age group as well. Um, but we want to bridge the gap between high school and young adulthood, and that's that's one of the most uh forgotten gaps that we have in the church is that age group. So we're just just trying to build it up and see where it goes. And you know, we could do a lot of things with it, but right now they really do just like sitting down and talking about the word, and so that's really cool.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

Yeah, and I think uh um to piggyback off that, you know, that um we have a lot of high schoolers involved, like with yours and mine, uh we have high schoolers involved in our small groups, yes, uh, that um actually set in with the adults. Yeah and uh and so uh we want again, we want them to when they're done with school, the high school before they head on to the next chapter, um, to have a really solid foundation.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

Yep. So what we do with ours is we I'll often teach, like um, I'll do an overview of the sermon and then I'll send them upstairs with um the text and questions. And um, I'll just say, look, ask, you know, if you want to ask the ask at least four or five questions. Right. And they always come down and I'll ask my son about it. And Aaron says, Man, we we talked about it and we asked questions and we had a good conversation, and they're getting better at it. And that's I want them to hunger for that when they go to college. I want them to go, wait a minute, I'm at college and I don't have that, so I'm gonna go find it.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Yeah, I can go find, or I'm gonna create it.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

Or I'm gonna create it. Yeah, absolutely. Come to my dorm room, we're gonna do this. And that's what we want to happen with them is we want, I mean, Aaron's going to Johnson, and um, it looks like, and Johnson, you know, or Liberty, like where Naomi has been, um, they're school, they're Christian schools, Christian universities that are that are gonna have easier access. If you go to a public university, it's not it's gonna be CCF or the Baptist Union um or you. And you know, trying to find that is gonna be hard, but we want them to hunger for it so much that they that they look for it. And um, because you know, when I came out of um school or when I came out of high school, I didn't hunger for that. I didn't hunger to sit down and talk to people about the Bible. And um, I'm not faulting anyone, I'm just saying that's how it was. And so for them, I want it to be something almost like a lifeblood thing where they feel like, man, if I don't have this, I can't breathe. And um, and they'll go find it if you do. So um, yeah, it's really a cool thing. Oh, it really is. But all are welcome, especially juniors, seniors in high school, young adults up to like 24, 25. Um, they're more than welcome to come and join us, and uh, we would love that. Um, so uh any other weekly events you can think of?

SPEAKER_01 20:27

Um uh going back to the Kinect class, uh, did you mention that we do have a young adult Kinect class? I I did. I yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 20:35

No, that's okay. And um we uh we're oftentimes sitting here looking at information, trying to see what we're doing next. And um, but yeah, we we also have a young adult uh Kinnect class that's kind of that same gap, that same age group. And uh Austin Morgan leads that. And uh so I'm glad we covered in two different ways. Uh it works out really well.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Yeah, yeah. So uh and then in one note for the small group, um yeah, not all of our small group uh none of our small groups actually meet weekly. Right. Uh most of them are every other week or quite a couple times a month. Um so you know, if you're interested in that, um hit us up and we can get you the schedule of what what that looks like. Um this fall, so we've added three small groups since January. Um and then I'm looking to add uh maybe two up to two more for the fall. Um and so um more information will be coming out about that towards the uh middle of summer to get some signups. So um I think I got one person that's willing to host, and I think our group is going to end up splitting.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

So yeah, and I and I think our and I I think our group is as well. I'm gonna um we've already talked about it, and it looks like uh we'll be able to um find a host and and facilitators and and that and guys, that's what small groups should do. Small groups should split. That's right. They multiply out. So you have strong individuals who come out of a small group, want to maintain what they had, and so they find new people, grow that. And then they split up again. And uh we want to be a church of small groups because we know that as we grow, small groups are one of the best ways for us to remain uh small in that way. And if we're gonna do small church at all, small groups is the way we want to do it. So we just want to stay close to each other and um and let people have that. And I don't blame people when you get that, when you find that camaraderie and that that fellowship and that beauty in it, and then they're like, no, we don't want to split. I get that.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

I get it. I it I I'm there. I am too.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

I don't want to split up with my you with my small group. And uh because I told them, I said, look, guys, even if we split up in two groups, we can get together. That's right. You know, we're not we can still be friends. We don't get cut off by some weird system. And uh oh, I saw them across the street, but I can't talk to him. Not my small group. So uh so monthly events, I'm just gonna go over these quickly, and then we want to go over some upcoming events and talk about why we're doing these things. So monthly events, um two of them are men's events, and two of them are more geared towards women, even though I think they would accept anybody who came. Um the first one is Axe Church. That happens on the first Monday of the month. So it happened this week. Yeah. And uh we just had it Monday night. That is down at Bury the Hatchet, which is um downtown Newburn, and it happens at six o'clock on the first Monday night of the month. It happens every month. And so uh I've had a couple this week say, Hey, are we gonna do that again? Yeah, yeah, we are. We're gonna do it next month.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

So um, and and that that one is um that is for men. Yep. Um, I mean, obviously, if you if you bring your wife, um she can throw axes or whatever, but it won't be free for her, yeah, obviously. But um, yeah, it we have really good conversations as a deal with men. So um we've had up to 36 guys there. Um it was awesome to meet Monday night. What probably fourth grade, like the youngest, what Liam's what?

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Liam's fourth or fifth grade.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

Yeah, all the way up to all the way up to 85.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Yeah, 85. So yeah. Yeah, it's great. We serve pizza, we sit around. If we can and the weather's nice, we sit outside. Outside, yeah. Um, and uh, it was just cool enough when the sun went down the other night that Rob Anderson had to go back to his truck and get a sweatshirt. So uh it was great. Um but uh yeah, that's Axe Church. We built Axe Church off of an idea that we all kind of had, but we didn't know how to push it forward. Right. Um, but um there's a friend of mine who runs a conglomeration of what they call shop churches up in um oh near Williamston, Robertsonville, Beargrass, that area. And I'm going back to speak there in June. But what they do is they meet in like big farm shops, tractor shops, and they do we do pizza, but they have the facilities to cook like these huge meals.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Yeah, they'd be amazing.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

And uh, oh my gosh, they do they do well when I last time I was there, they did green beans, pork chops, and potatoes. Oh and Kevin went with me, and Kevin was like, That's sold the best food I ever had. And I was like, Yeah, that was pretty good. And uh that's how they get and they have huge groups in those big shops. I mean, the one I went to last was probably 80 to 100 guys. Wow, and um so but now and they've got them in four or five different places. Yeah, that's awesome. But when I went and spoke the first time we came back and we were like, hey, this is the idea. And so Axe Church just was born and it's growing. It is, it's growing, it's great. Yeah, and I mean we're yeah, I love it.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

It's hard in the winter months because we we gotta be in the back room of the of the building. We gather around a pool table. Pool table, yeah. Literally, like we gather around a pool table, and people you know who are you know, we we don't, you know, we don't have them shut their business down for us, they just keep going. And we've got people playing near hockey and pool on the other side and and games and stuff, and we just keep going. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

Playing music, and of course you can hear the axis in the wood.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

So it's a great time, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:45

Another thing that the men do is golf. Um, and is that the last Tuesday? That's the fourth Tuesday of every month. Yep. Fourth Tuesday of every month, they go to Fairfield Harbor, play nine holes. They start around five tee off. And then the re if you ask the guys why they go, of course they go for the golf. Yeah. Um, and everybody pays their own way, but it's a discounted rate. And um, but afterwards they go to Sarah's and eat, and everybody talks about going to Sarah's to eat together.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

So it's just a lot of fun for a lot of hanging out. I haven't, you know, I I do a marriage ministry at the at the that time, but um but w when when you go, like you don't have to be professional golfer. That's right. Because we play shotgun.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Oh my gosh, I play, so you don't have certainly don't have to be good.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

It's it's shotgun as long ball. It's like, you know, the best ball, and and so everybody gets a chance to tee off, everybody gets a chance to hit, and you know, and and you just pick the best ball and go, and you you it's it's it's a lot of fun. We it is there's a lot of laughs.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

Yeah, we laugh a lot at each other, at the ball, at life, and um it's been a blast, it really has.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

At the at the tempers that end up happening because yeah. And it does, and uh guys, guys frustrated with themselves, and I mean there's it's it's a lot of it's just a lot of fun. And then Sarah's is is a blast afterwards. Sarah is always fun. Support a local business and uh have good food and good fellowship.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

So um two other events that happen on a monthly basis is the encouragers card class. Um and the encouragers card class meets in the kitchen of the worship center. And I was gonna bring up the so their next meeting is on May, it's next week, it's May 11th. May 11th, yeah. Um, at 6 p.m. And then the very next week is the Crafters Fellowship, and that's the Encouragers Card class. Of course, they get together and make cards, and they make cards for us as a church. So, like if you want to send a card to somebody and don't necessarily want to go and buy one, you can stop by the office. We have extra cards, some extra cards here. And we're not gonna give you 50 at a time.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

No.

SPEAKER_02 27:42

Um, because it again, they're all handmade. But if you want one or two to send to somebody, I think, I think we could do that. And we'd hand you a couple of cards um and uh you could go send them. But they're beautiful cards, Teresa Marsh and Yvonne Swain and all those ladies um are just so good at it. But then the following week on the 18th, they have the crafters fellowship, and this is where they they meet in the kitchen, and they you can bring anything that you're working on. Like if you're working on a quilt, bring the quilt. You can work on it, and what they do is they sit around and work on their crafts and just talk. Good conversation, and it's awesome, and they love it, and they're and they just have a good time doing it. So um that's good stuff. One other thing that happens on a monthly basis that I didn't write down is um uh the Mama Llamas.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

And um, and while the mama the Mama Lamas is a group that our jars has been born out of our jars of clay um mom's uh ministry, um, if you want more information about that, you can see my wife, Stephanie, or you can see our summer intern who is McKenzie Richardson. Many of you know McKenzie from the church, and she's interning with us this summer, but you can talk to them about it. And um it's for special needs moms who needed just just need a place to come and be around other people who are like them and support. Yep, it's just a good support. So uh if you want more information about that, um you can talk to to them. Um yeah, so upcoming events. We have a large schedule, and you can catch most of this schedule off of our website. And I say most because not everything is on there yet, but we wanted to go over the schedule and we really want to talk a little bit about why we do this. And we're about 30 minutes in, but we're gonna we're gonna try to be time, and I hope you're sticking with us, especially if you're part of Broad Creek, because again, that this is this is good stuff that you get to be a part of. New burn is famous for their events. We you can just about every event, every weekend during the summer, there's something going on, and we we honestly we kind of compete with that, not in a competition way, but we have events, and again, we don't do them just to do them, we do them because there's great purpose behind every one of them. So the first one that we'll bring up is May 16th is special needs baseball day. That's held at Creekside Park, and that is our day as a church to go out and serve the community, serve the special needs community and their parents and their guardians. Uh, we go out and if you don't want to go out and have anything to do but sit in the seats and cheer, come do it. We need big, we need big, we need a ton of people to fill the stands, um, the the bleachers and just cheer for everybody. Um, we need people on every field um to help out. We need announcers, we we need all kinds of fun stuff. And you can just show up and it's really not, you know, you think, oh, do I have to try? No, you do you love people? You can go out and you can be a part of it. And um, we do this because not only do we value our special needs community, but more and more we are growing uh in that community, and we just man, we love that community. And um, I know my wife's heart is beats for that community, and my heart beats for my wife, so my heart beats for that community too. Yeah, and um, it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

SPEAKER_01 30:50

No, no, I you know I think there's well over 150 athletes this year.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

Yeah, uh, and if they all show up, we they we we need a lot of folks.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

So so we need uh and unfortunately, my wife and I um and Naomi won't be able to be there because Naomi graduates. Naomi's graduation day, that's right. Um from Liberty. So congratulations, bud. Yeah, that's awesome. But uh so that's three spots we need filled. So um, yeah, um we we sit on the field on on the on the the sidelines and and cheer them on. Uh we need help with you out in the the field just encouraging them. Just encouraging.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

Just if a ball's hit at you, you just kind of knock it over and let it go to them and they throw it back to the pitcher. I mean, just stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

Talk to them when they're on base. Yeah, encourage them. I mean, it's it's a lot of fun. And then afterwards we we we form a big tunnel and we you know tell them good job and cheer for them as they as they are leaving, but they're leaving right over to where we're serving food.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

So yeah, and there's another opportunity instead of I think if we could get upwards uh some of our upward cheerleaders who were in football season to come out in their cheerleading outfits and cheer for them down the sidewalk, I think that would be awesome. And so um, yeah, so but man, the first time I went, I know I was dumb. The first time I went, I was announcing, and uh guy came up to bat and uh he hit the ball, and you advance basically one base at a time. Unless they just keep running. And if they keep running, they let them take second base. And so he hit the ball and got to first and ran to second. So I was like, Oh, he's still in second, he's going to second, you know, blah, blah, blah. And I was going like that. And I had his name and I don't remember his name now. But he hit second base and didn't turn to third. He ran towards left field, and the gate was open, and he ran right out the gate, and two guys had to chase him down, and they chased him down and turned him around, and he ran right back in the gate and ran to third base and stood there. And I thought, and I said, That's a triple. I mean, what do you say? I don't know, and uh it was but we were laughing and he was just having a blast, and it's um it's just the best.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

It is it is a great time.

SPEAKER_02 32:49

We go to serve them, and then when we leave, we figure out that man, they do so much for us. Yeah, we were the ones blessed. So that's May 16th. I hope you'll you'll think about joining us there. Now, May 31st is a big Sunday for us. Yeah, we've got a few things going on. Number one, it's graduation Sunday, and that means we celebrate our high school graduates and our college graduates. We're also going to acknowledge our fifth graders um who are graduating up into the youth program. And so um, we don't have a lot this year. Um, it's one of those odd years where all these numbers are kind of falling.

SPEAKER_01 33:19

Yeah, they're all they're all in between now.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

Yeah, they're all in the middle. And so we'll have a lot. Some years, oh my gosh, one year will if everything else true, we'll have probably 20 graduating from high school at one time. But yeah, right now it's it's a lower number. So both of Dan's uh kids are graduating, and we'll be able to celebrate both of them uh from college. And so Brentley Um Altman is graduating from high school. Uh just got word today, I just figured out Sydney Corley, Shanna, and Jason's daughter is graduating from UNC Wilmington. And uh that was all and Wesley um Altman is graduating from law school. So um, yeah, we'll be able to celebrate these graduates and uh and then of course the fifth graders, and uh and we'll do that. But it's also Family Sunday. And if you don't know anything about Family Sunday, there's usually a fifth Sunday where we give the kids um binders and there's coloring books and sheets in there that Taryn always puts together, and they're able to sit and worship with their parents. And we feel like it's important because when the kids get out of the youth program, we want them to have some idea of what happens in worship. Yeah, and uh so we feel like this is a good way to get them involved. Um, we put kids in the services and we're doing it more and more now over and over. I mean, if you've ever come and seen our drummer, sometimes our drummer has to our drummer has to roll up his chair to get a little higher because he's a fourth or fifth grader or what you know, and uh and he's good.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

We got Mackie who sings on stage with us on a regular rotation, and we got another one getting ready to try out tonight. That's awesome. Um, and so and and we don't we don't just showcase them right on a family Sunday. Uh they're part of the regular rotation things, and and I think that's really important. But the Family Sunday enables us to try to get that mindset of service in. So we have what you'll find some of our our kids on a family sundae greeting, yeah. Um, you know, helping helping out around the the place uh because they're not gonna be in class, they just they just kind of fill in different places.

SPEAKER_02 35:14

Yeah, and we love it. We want the kids there, we want them to be a part of all of it, and um, it's such a good atmosphere that um, you know, it's not like oh you're you're little, you need to stay out of the way. No, we we want them to be a part of the church. And while we're talking about that, one thing that I didn't write down, I'm not sure when we're instituting it. Um, and we're gonna have McKenzie on here at some point to talk about her her her internship this summer, and um, she's really nervous about that, but we're gonna get her anyway. And um, but she wants to come on and she's gonna talk about a program that she has called Through the Roof. And Through the Roof is a program where we're going to be um utilizing our special needs uh friends uh in the special needs ministry in jars of clay, and we're gonna be bringing them over and letting them serve in the church uh proper. The goal of special needs ministry eventually, and I don't want to harp on it because I'll let McKenzie do it, um, but the goal of this special needs ministry is to make it so that when we go into church, we don't look at special needs individuals as special needs individuals. Right. We look at them as a part of the church. We look at them as brothers and sisters in Christ, who worship with us, who serve with us, who move on. And we're we're breaking, we're trying to break down the stigmatas and the barriers that have always been there for that. Um and so um we we are and we're gonna continue doing that because the staff is all on board with it, the leadership's all on board with it, and um uh we we see that. So that's gonna be upcoming too. And I mentioned that because that night, May 31st, is our special needs worship service, and we do that on fifth Sundays, and we have fun. Dan, uh Carrie, and others come and lead worship. I usually do a devotion, we usually have a lot of fun, a lot of laughs. It's a short service, 35 to 40 minutes. But what it's doing is it's allowing special needs families to all sit in a worship service together. And whether there's kids stimming and talking and walking around, um yelling, trying to sing, but not knowing whatever it is, we go with it because we want them to not only um how did we say it yesterday? We don't want them to belong. We want what was it? What was the phrase? I can't remember now. Well, McKenzie will teach us uh when she comes again.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

Something about like it's more than just inclusion, it's it's belonging. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

It's more yeah, it's past inclusion, yeah, it's belonging, and they belong in that service. And that's what we that's right. And so um, so it's it's a beautiful thing. Um June 13th, we have the blueberry festival in Bridgeton. Now there's two things happening on June 13th. Blueberry Festival in Bridgeton, which we're really excited about. This is our first year being involved. We want all of Broad Creek to come out to the Blueberry Festival, hang out at the tent with us. That's right. Um, we'd love to have 300 people standing around that tent.

SPEAKER_01 38:00

Wear wear a Broad Creek shirt if you got it. And just be a presence there.

SPEAKER_02 38:04

Yes, just be a presence and just show up because we we often talk about Pamlico County, but our Jerusalem is also Bridgeton. That's right. And uh Bridgeton's just very close to us, just right there. And and we do we don't think about it because we drive a left and go into New Bern. And uh, but we want to reach Bridgeton and um and we feel like the Blueberry Festival is a great place to start.

SPEAKER_01 38:23

So that's it and you can talk to Kevin um because I I my my I'm gonna be there all day uh because the next event I don't really don't want to be at anyway. Uh but tell the truth, Dan. I will but the the blueberry festival, I'm gonna be there all day, but uh I would love to see so many people wanting to be there that Kevin has to set up shifts.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

I would love it.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Yeah, that would be awesome. It's to to help run run the and I think we're gonna we're gonna have an extended boost. So we're gonna have two spots.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

We bought two spots that were cheap. I mean, it's not expensive. The Bridgeton's not making a killing off this thing um with their with their selling spots at the place. But um, yeah, the more people we have there, if you want to work a 30-minute shift, it'll be awesome if we're there for eight hours and people can we have like six people working 30-minute shifts. You know, I honestly don't even know how long it is, but um I think it's from like 10 to 4 or something like that. Something like that, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:15

Yeah, so it's not very long. Um, but it's but it's gonna be very very much worth your while. Um again, if you'd even if you don't work the booth, come to the blueberry festival. Yeah. Wear your Broad Creek shirt. Yeah. And just be a smile. Just be present. Smile at people. Love them. Yeah, yeah. It was awesome last year, guys.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

I mean, they sell blueberries and all kinds of there's people making blueberry cobblers and blueberry.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

I mean, yeah, blueberries. I I always think of the veggie tales.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

I thought you were gonna say Charlie in the chocolate factory where Veruca was a Verca salt.

SPEAKER_01 39:46

Yeah, that's fine too. But yeah. That's all right.

SPEAKER_02 39:48

No, no, no, nobody's gonna turn into a blueberry. Um, so that evening, um, if you are uh interested, we have the Wilmington Celebration Choir. And Dan is not interested.

SPEAKER_01 40:02

I love music, but this is just not my foretale.

SPEAKER_02 40:06

I know. And that's okay. But again, we we want to provide uh and again the reason Blueberry Festival, the reason is we want to be a presence in the community. Graduation Sunday, we want to celebrate and honor our family. Family Sunday, we want to children, special needs, worship, all this. Um, but the the Wilmington Celebration Choir, we're actually part of what we're doing here is we're partnering, it's our first partnership with Bayborough Baptist Church. And uh their preacher, Scott Fitzgerald, and uh he called us and asked us, he said, Hey, we've got the Wilmington Celebration Choir coming, but we don't think we have a space big enough. Can we come down to your church? And we're blessed to have a space that we feel like would accommodate them. I'm the music is going to be in the style of uh it's it's a cappella, they have some music uh that they'll play, but it's gonna be big choir. It's gonna be beautiful, it really is. And so if you're interested in that, that's gonna be June 13th. We'll get the time out there soon. Um, and uh you can come out and just have a wonderful time with the Wilmington Celebration Choir. And um, I'm looking forward to partnering again with Baby World Baptist. And in September, and we don't have this on our schedule, we'll talk about this later. Um, we have um Hasten International bringing the medical trailer down. We're gonna partner again with Baby World Baptists, and we're gonna have the medical trailer down at their church because it'll be more effective there than it would here, it'd be more centrally located to the county. So we're lots of good things.

SPEAKER_01 41:29

It's just it's just amazing because being able to partner with other brothers and sisters, I think uh you know, we're not in competition with one another unless unless you're Mormon or Jehovah. Yeah, well, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:38

And that's yeah. And then you need to you need to become a Christian. Um but repent. I'm really happy that we get to partner with a lot of Christians. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 41:47

It is amazing.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

So um June 20th, we have special needs VBS. That's a one-day occurrence. Uh it's on a Saturday. What we do is we set up for VBS, get fully set up, and then we have a special needs VBS. Last year, and I remember in my mind taking a picture of it, and there were so many people in the sanctuary that I was really worried that we were packing it in too much. And so we did not expect there to be a hundred and forty or a hundred and twenty or something like that. And um, and it just and then their parents are guardians, and then their families, yeah, and so um It was fantastic. It was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

Um but we did it at the last day.

SPEAKER_02 42:25

We did it on the last day, yeah. And so we were all kind of wiped out from VBS, yeah, and then uh kind of oh wow, overwhelmed by the special needs VBS. This year we're doing special needs VBS on the 20th of June. Yeah, and then the rainforest VBS will begin on June 22nd, and that'll run through the 26th. And so if you're interested in volunteering, the links on our website. That's Father's Day weekend. Yes, it is, yeah. Yeah, and um uh but what a what a great yeah, what a great way to start. Um the cause the 22nd's Monday, so you have Father's Day, yeah. But um man, uh just uh VBS has become such a big thing here in just the last four or five years. Yeah, and actually we didn't do it for a long time here, and then it was uh we let Taryn come on board and she's like, let's do a VBS and we looked at her like she was crazy, and then um Taryn jumped in and like Taryn does, uh she did it really well. And um she does things with such excellence that is insane. Yeah, and uh we're so proud to have her on our team, and she does man, she does good things. So um, so uh after June 26th and VBS, we're gonna take a little break. And um on July 23rd through the 25th, we're gonna have soccer evaluations here at the church. Also on July 23rd and 24th, we're gonna have a sports camp partnered with Heartworks and PCA soccer coaches and players are gonna come out and do a um sports camp that we're gonna be able to partner and help out uh these kids at Heartworks and and uh it's just gonna be a great time and kind of building into the Soccer program. And remember, we have two sports programs that are active now. We have soccer in the fall and we have football early in the spring. And so we're really excited to be able to offer these to kids in the in the community to give them an alternative rather than going into New Bern and getting kind of no offense to Newburn, but getting wrapped up in a large program. And I was out at the baseball games last night late. And man, there were a thousand people out there at Creekside. And I'm not saying that's bad. I'm just saying it's good. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 44:32

Some families can't do that. Right. So this is a great alternative for that. And it's Christ-centered. That's it. Everything is Christ-centered.

SPEAKER_02 44:39

And we want to be Christ-centered in all we do. And so if we can preach the gospel um in in small ways to people while we're doing sports, that's part of the that's part of the setup.

SPEAKER_01 44:48

And we've got uh um soccer um signups. Yes. Uh do they start or are they coming soon?

SPEAKER_02 44:57

Yeah, the uh the signups are already have already begun, I think. I think so. I think the evaluations are important because we have to know like you we have to know if your kid and like your neighbor's kid who want to play together are like the two greatest soccer players the area's seen in the last 10 years. Because if they are, it's not really gonna be fair to any other team. So what we try to do is we try to put the teams in such a competitive manner that they can actually have good games. And maybe one game is a blowout, but the the next game would be close. We try to do our best because to us, soccer, yeah, I mean, they're still gonna keep score. The kids keep score in their heads even if we don't. I mean, they know, but it's it's not so much about um winning as it is about just competition, doing your best and uh and playing as a team. And so we we want it it's important for us to foster the proper attitude. So we want the teams to be as even as possible.

SPEAKER_01 45:53

So so with that, um going back to VBS, special needs VBS, and soccer, all of the registration is open right now for all of those events. Yeah, and you can go to bccchurch.com and right on our home page there, um, you just gotta go go down a little bit. Um we got some scrolling uh pictures there. You can register for those things.

SPEAKER_02 46:19

There's buttons in the scrolling announcements, and there's QR code um and a button on the VBS uh stuff, and it takes you to a website called VBS Pro. And um that is our links to um register folks. That is purely legitimate, and we um we register people through those things.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

You can also sign up to volunteer uh for special needs baseball in that same area. So um yeah, uh we we we like to do the volunteer signups um because we we like to know what we're dealing with number wise as far as the adults and and other volunteers that that are gonna be there helps us plan a lot better with things. So um, yeah. So if you're volunteering and want to sign up for any of those soccer, um always we need refs, we need coaches, we need um people to help with the the stand, the concession stand. We need help putting the field together, taking the field down. I mean, all that stuff happens every week. And so yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

The more hands the better. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 47:20

Lots of stuff to do.

SPEAKER_02 47:21

So consider that. If you're looking for a way to serve, we have we have really involved ways to serve, but we also have ways that you can just come set things up and you don't have to answer questions, you don't have to be a Bible scholar. You don't, you know, we have a lot of things to do that you don't have to be a Bible scholar for.

SPEAKER_01 47:38

But as little as and you don't have to put on a volunteer list, uh you know have to sign up for this, but just coming to the games, even if you don't have a child or a grandchild in that league, it doesn't matter. Just come to the games and just cheer on the kids and talk to parents and talk to families, make connections.

SPEAKER_02 47:56

Yeah, because guys, there's it's hard. If you're in church like Dan and I have been for years and years, it's hard to understand how difficult it is for someone to connect to a church. And we want them to be able to connect in such ways. And the best way to do it is through friendship. The best way to do it is just talking to them and making a relationship so that they may ask, Oh, where do you go to church? And oh well, go to Broad Creek and um, or I you know, go to another good church. And and that, but that relationship makes it happen. Yep. And um, we we can't go out there and point throw Bibles at people and hope that they come because that's not how you do it. You throw a Bible at me and and first of all, it made me mad that you throw a Bible but at me, but uh second, we're gonna have to have words because you're you know, but it's uh yeah, let's make sure that we're we're building those relationships, and that's the way you do it. We give you opportunities to do it. We want you to take advantage of those opportunities. That's right. I'm gonna let Dan talk about the next two July 31st and August 1st. And uh this is kind of where we're gonna end uh with our events.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

And so one of our biggest events that we do uh every year, uh this will be our I think our fifth I think that's right. Yeah. Um back to school bash. Um it came out of an idea. Um actually, it came out uh the first time we did it was I had a friend who's a comedian um in Florida, um, and he was my youth minister for probably my I think my last year of high school. Uh, but he's not very much older than me. His wife, wife and I, his wife's probably six months older than me. Anyway, um, good friend. Um, and so he's he was in ministry and then and now he's doing uh k comedy and stuff. But anyway, he called me up and said, Hey, um looking at trying to get up up your way for comedy, would you think it would be uh an opportunity to come to your church? And so um I said, sure, let's let me think about it. And I so long story short, I got a couple people together and we um we thought, hey, let's let's do something for the community uh with this. And so um, but we just didn't want just a comedy night, we wanted a a bigger reason um for this. And so again, trying to what we do here is we're trying to find the way that we can maximize our impact. Um, and so we decided that we would do the back to school bash. Uh so we were gonna give um uh school supplies and backpacks uh two kids for free, um, and then invite them to stay for the uh the comedy show. And so that's how it all got started. But it's it's morphed into, I mean, uh we're we're we're seeing uh we're serving up to about 500 kids uh every year, and we're seeing uh you know, 1,500 uh plus people on our campus uh because they bring their families, um, even if their kids aren't um uh school age yet or type of thing. And so uh so we're we're gonna be doing that again this year. Uh we are looking for sponsors. Um, so if you have a business um uh and you would like to be a sponsor, um, please get a hold of me soon. Um and uh we're gonna get posters out and stuff. Uh uh we'll advertise your business, that type of thing, uh, so people know who who our sponsors are. Um if you don't want to be advertised, that's fine too. Uh anonymous is great. Um but we uh this is a self-funded um uh endeavor, so we don't budget for it in our in our uh budget here at the church. Uh we we rely solely on uh donations. Um that being said, we're gonna be putting out information here in the next few weeks about uh we're gonna start collecting school supplies. Uh and so keep your eyes, and I know school's just getting done, uh, and we're already planning for the return of school in August. But um, if you're a parent and you and and you have children, you know what that that then that struggle is real. I mean, school gets done, yeah, and then all of a sudden school's about to start again. So crazy. Um, so anyway, um, so we got that. Uh that will be happening soon. Uh so on July 31st, um, we this is one of the events that takes a lot of volunteers. Um, we usually average about 93 volunteers for this. Um, and we probably could use more. Yeah, we can always use more. But our but our people are great. Um, and so um on July 31st, we're gonna meet here at the church and we're gonna set up for the event, which happens on August 1st. Yeah. Um, and so that Friday, uh, all day long we'll be here at the church setting things up, um, getting the um our my my team that I have is fantastic um logistically, like we have some genius, logistical geniuses um that set up sets the flow up and everything. Um uh it's it's a pretty amazing uh feat. They do a good job. Yeah, they do a fantastic job. I I have to do uh as far as like the planning stuff, I I'm a part of that, but they it just the the the the brain the brains of the operation are those who make it flow the way it does, and I just say yes ma'am, yes, sir. So um but anyway, it's it's a fantastic event. Um so we'll set that up on July 31st on that Friday, and then on August 1st, um we have the event itself. Well, the event starts with, and we started doing this last year, and I think um we had a lot of people sign up. Some people didn't show up, but um, and that's that's typical. Um, it's a free event, so it's not like you know people are invested financially into it. Uh, we just want to help people and bless people. Uh we have a sensory-friendly hour. So if if you're a family that has uh kids with special needs uh that are in school and and are uh you're with education, um we have a special hour for you. So it starts at 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. So that during that hour, the only people that are going through to get school supplies are are families with of special needs. Yep. And so uh and it's not that we're trying we're we're not trying to um um split them away from the the other kids. What we're trying to do is we understand the special needs, there's a lot of sensory issues, and it's loud. Yeah, it's loud when when everybody's there and there's a lot going on. We try to keep it a lot more subdued, yes, a lot more subdued. Um it's a little it's uh it's a bit more personable, um, which which is crazy because the other side is really personable. Yeah. Um, but we try to cater to the cater to that special need uh family so that they can have an enjoyable experience. And then you're they're free to stay um because we have a lot of free events that are happening uh at the same time. We've got uh axe throwing by Barry the Hatchet, their mobile unit. We've got bounce houses, we've got cotton candy and uh uh pelican snowballs, we've got uh um hot dogs and popcorn and haircuts, lots of vendors coming in. Lots of vendors coming in, and we're we're trying to add more and more later um to that. Uh we had what Red Cross was here last year. Um, we've had uh Baby Row Pharmacy in the past. I mean, we've we've had a lot of good resources, Pamba uh partnership for children, um, you know, those types of things. Uh this year I think we're gonna have Pamico Community College come out as well. Awesome. Um, and so like there's just a lot of resources there. And if you just want to relax, we have a we just bought actually we just bought a big um outdoor uh party tent for our church that we're gonna be using on a lot of our events. Yep. Um, you know, so there'll be shade available, uh, that type of thing. So uh it's just a great time. So stick around after that hour. Um if you have a a family, a special needs family that that you're gonna be there that hour early, stick around. It's gonna be a great time. And then at 11 a.m. uh approximately, uh these are all approximate, from 2 p.m. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., we'll have our the rest of the the back to school bash. Yeah, um and again, sorry, uh we've got uh a lot of stuff going on. Pambico County uh sheriff comes, Craven County Sheriff comes. Um we want them to come. Like we planned on them coming.

SPEAKER_02 56:00

It's not because Dan's doing something stupid. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 56:02

Which which I mean I'm better now. I know. Um but uh no uh they come and so they come and interact with the community. We have the Coast Guard uh that shows up. We have the uh um uh Olympia Fire Department comes and brings the truck. I mean, there's so much to do, and it's such a great time. That's uh it starts at 10 a.m. with the special needs till 11 a.m. And then the the the event officially starts at uh 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. So uh we need uh volunteers. Yeah, so yeah, and we need sponsors. So talk to me.

SPEAKER_02 56:40

Yeah. I I hope I hope you've been tracking with us because um the it clearly we have plenty of spots for people to help.

SPEAKER_03 56:48

Right.

SPEAKER_02 56:48

And it's it's not uh there there we we want we want people to be able to serve the Lord in a capacity that helps people and because that's what we're built for. We're built to love God and love others, and and as we do that, these these events are just perfect for that. And so we just hope that you'll sign up and come and right.

SPEAKER_01 57:11

Well, we we had last year, I think you and I were outside at the back school bash, and we had one gentleman coming up uh to us um who has been part of our church for a few years now. Yep, and good guy, yeah. You know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say his name because about what I what I'm about to say is is it would probably be embarrassing for him, but um he had tears in his eyes and he said this is the first time I've ever done anything like this and served in this kind of way. And he said, This is absolutely amazing.

SPEAKER_02 57:37

It was really cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:39

It was awesome. Um and and he's he's the fantastic man. Um uh great friend, great just just dude all all the way around. And so anyway, like just never, never really experiencing things like that before. And then finally, that's the event he does. And and I mean, God bless him, because that's the big event. I mean, that's the big one. But uh, but man, it just you could see the the life in his eyes, just like just it was just something that he just just cherished. And I and I saw him talking to families and thanking them for coming and and you know, just it was it was amazing. So if if you're having you know, and we say this all the time, if you're having a bad day, go serve somebody.

SPEAKER_02 58:17

Go serve somebody.

SPEAKER_01 58:18

You know, if if if you're feeling down about yourself, go serve somebody. Um it's you'll notice in that in that act of service um what God does with your heart uh when you're helping somebody else. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 58:29

So absolutely. Absolutely. No, that's good. That's that's a lot, and that's where we're gonna leave our announcements for right now. May through July. This is May through July and the very first day of August. So um, and really, guys, again, I hope that you can see, you know, we didn't we didn't even get to the idea right now. I we will say we're really praying about um the overcrowding that we have in our um nursery and in our jars of clay and in our kids. Yeah, in our children's ministry. And um, and I say overcrowding, we're managing it, it it's fine, but we're kind of we're we're pumping a place that we're really praying a lot and moving. The elders are getting ready to take a little road trip on Monday together um so that we can uh go to another church and ask them questions about how they grew through some certain uh barriers that they had, and we wanted to research that ourselves, and so we're all going and um uh I'm thankful for that so that one of us doesn't have to go and come back with information and then convince the others. Right. And um so we're we're looking forward to that, but we want you praying about it because honestly, um we we see we see the Lord doing incredible things here at Broad Creek, and we want it it's not about we're not shooting for numbers, and we say this all the time we're not shooting for numbers. What we want is for God to tell us, hey, keep growing so that you we I can bring more people here so that they can know and experience the love of Christ and know his salvation. And when you get to the place where that's where I want you to be, I'll show you. And so we're just trusting the Lord right now. It seems like He's telling us to change some things and uh maybe add a service or you know, maybe looking at building or whatever it is that we need to do, we want to do it for the kingdom. And so um, and we'll be talking more about that as we go. But right now, dear listener, faithful friend, uh be praying. And uh, we want you to um know that what we're what we're going through is good things. Uh growing pains are not always bad, they're good things. That's right. That's right. So good stuff. We're blessed. All right. Um, so we're right at the one hour mark. We've done well. I think uh what do you think? It's time for the dad joke.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:41

The dad joke 3,000. All right, for as long as it will give us new jokes. I'm just afraid this is gonna be the day. Every week, you're saying.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:52

I don't will we remember if it gives us an oven?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:54

Probably not.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:55

Yeah, uh, I mean, I think we'd have to go back and listen.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:57

Probably not.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:58

I yeah. All right, here we go. Dad joke 3,000.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:01

What happens to a cow during an earthquake? It becomes a milkshake.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:08

That was awesome. That was really good. Yeah, that's pretty good. I like that. That's pretty good. Um, I wish I could have a milkshake. Yeah, both. If you don't know this, another thing about Dan and I is we're both he's he's pretty intolerant to milk. I'm bl I'm blood allergic to milk.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:28

You're you're allergic. I'm just really intolerant.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:31

So and so we share that. Um thankfully he does not share my allergy to both chicken and turkey.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:36

I I might not make it if that was the case.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:39

I a lot of people say that, but here I am.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:41

I love me some chickens. Here I am in all my glory.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:44

Um, all 240 some pounds of me. Um obviously I'm not yeah, obviously, I'm not uh I'm not I'm not um that's that's a good one, too.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:55

Or like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:58

Or uh I'm obviously not suffering from not being able to do milk, chicken, or turkey because um beef and sugar keeps me in.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:06

Beef is what's for dinner, right? That's always what's for dinner. Beef and pork.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:11

Oh me, and I love it all. Um all right, Dan. Uh appreciate you, buddy. Thank you. Yep. And uh guys, if you guys need to plug in, go to the website. Go to the website, come see us, email the office, whatever you got to do to plug in, plug in. Um, we we're we're we might chase you down if we know it, yeah, but it's always better if you just show up and and say, hey, I'm here to serve.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:34

You cannot come here and say, Man, I'm really bored. Yeah, there's nothing to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:38

You can't do it because we have something going on all the time. That's right. And uh you can always plug into something. So uh come and plug in, uh, come and see as Jesus. Um as as the someone told, what was it, that uh Bartholomew um Nathaniel. And uh I think it was Nathaniel and said, Come and see. And um, so just come and see and uh be a part of what we're doing because the Lord's really moving. All right. So all right, y'all. Have a good week. Love y'all, love y'all. Take care. Bye-bye.