Easter on the Internet Campus

Greetings Faithful Readers...

I could honestly write pages about this past weekend, but here's a quick recap of events on our Internet Campus:

1) New Page Elements - We debuted some new items on our campus page:  Spanish translation, lobby login, and connection map.  Campus guests are now able to click a button..see Pastor Troy teaching...and hear it in Spanish from our translation team!  Also, the buttons on the page and the teaching notes are translated into Spanish with the push of a button.  We also unveiled the new lobby page complete with map of who is currently connected.  Very cool stuff!  Kudos to the Internet Campus developement/tech team who made this all happen!


2)  Beach Baptism - Still don't have the final number of people baptized from the IC (Internet Campus).  We had 19 confirmed for the beach and Cooper City.  I got the chance to baptize Kim Knowles that flew in from the Bahamas to get baptized on the beach.  She has been attending the IC for quite awhile and couldn't wait to get in the water!   I got the chance to meet 9 other people on the beach that I had never seen physically before but felt like I had known them forever.  They would walk up to me at the beach and say...hi I'm _________.  If I didn't recognize their name, they would tell me their "chat room" name...THOSE names I knew...  We took a lot of photos for the Facebook page and blogs with all that attended from the IC.  We were broadcasting live from the beach the entire morning...Pastor Arturo even got the chance to wear his antenna hat again!  You can watch the beach baptism footage on Pastor Arturo's blog www.arturodelamora.blogspot.com.

3)   2023 attended the Internet Campus over the Easter weekend.  Small group attendance was higher than usual and the chat room was crowded in many of the services.

4)  Our Winter Park small group baptized 2 people on Easter Sunday!  They have been a part of the Ray's small group for awhile.  How cool is it that there are baptisms happening at the beach, at the other campuses, and upstate on the same day!   Did I mention that those two that were baptized in Winter Park are Christ-followers in a home where they were raised by Buddhist parents?   I am posting pictures/video of those baptisms soon on our campus Facebook page.

5)   72 people clicked the button for a miracle on the Internet Campus.  I'm praying for each and every one of you.

6)   We had a dedicated team of volunteers all weekend long in the studio.  Thanks to each of you for your sacrifices that you made to make this weekend execute so well.  I owe each of you a chocolate bunny.

7)   We had one salvation over the weekend.  One person that was headed for hell turned on their computer, heard Pastor Troy's great teaching, and came to Christ.  When they shut down their laptop for the evening..they were Heaven-bound.   Isn't that amazing?

8)  All the rest:   many visitors in the studio that wanted to see it in "person"...I got to sing with the Gospel choir onstage for 8 services...42 people found our UStream.tv live Easter feed by just "stumbling" across it while surfing the web...I drank 3 Sugar-free Red Bulls...16 countries connected over the weekend...  WOW!

I could go on...but I've got to get ready for "The Bed"...see you tonight!

BV