I am the worship leader at The Well in Cartersville, GA.
- My pastor, Andy Postell. I have the best pastor, boss, mentor, friend in the world. Andy and I have been working together and dreaming about what The Well would look like since January of 2008. Very early on we realized that we were almost complete opposites and we teased that he was the old and I was the new. But we also realized early on that this meshed together so perfectly and we were a great team together. Not only is Andy a great communicator on Sunday mornings, but he is a great pastor to the church where he truly cares for its people and he is a great leader. Andy is one of those people who have those deeply “in-tune” relationships with Jesus. It is incredibly easy to follow him in leadership because I know that he is following Jesus in all that he does.
- Our Staff. Where the church is still less than a year and Andy and I are the only full time staff, we have the best volunteer staff in the planet. Claire Postell, Andy’s wife heads up our kids area and does a phenomenal job. On Sunday mornings, the kids have their own environment specifically created for them. Claire is a master at creating a cool set design for the kids and they eat it up. Dee Dee Burson assists Claire and also heads up our nursery. As soon as she came on board she up’ed the game. She’s really been the key to taking our kids ministry to the next level.
- The people who come on Sundays. The people who come on Sundays are the coolest people in Cartersville. About 60-70% of the people who come to The Well haven’t stepped foot inside a church since they were kids. That’s so awesome to me. We advertise that we are “church done differently”. For some reason these people give us a chance and they see that church doesn’t have to be about traditions with lost meanings or all about politics or full of hypocrites. Church is about the body of Christ coming together to lift high the name of Jesus and recharge us so we can punch Satan in the throat Monday through Saturday.
- Our Serve Teams. These men and women are what makes The Well happen every Sunday. These are the people who come in on Saturday afternoon and setup the building to create our environment for worship. These are the people who get to church early to greet you at the door with a smile. These are the people who serve you coffee and breakfast before the service starts. These are the people who care for your kids in the back so you can worship freely. These are the people who make The Well what it is.
- Excel Christian Academy. I wholeheartedly believe that we have the best portable facility for a church in Cartersville, Georgia. When we first launched, we met at the Cartersville Library and we out grew it extremely fast. God opened doors just at the right time and gave us Excel. We went from a main worship room that could hold 100 standing room only, 1 kid’s room that we have to divide with curtains, and loading everything into trailers…to a building with a main worship room that could hold 500 easy, the possibility of 7 kid’s rooms that most of them we can leave set up, and a storage room that we no longer needed trailers. This building is going to allow us to grow into multiple services and reach many more people for Jesus.
- Our Band. I have the best and most talented friends out there. I have the pleasure of having my closest friends come and lead worship with me every Sunday morning. From day 1 of our very first preview service we started with a phenomenal band. We didn’t want to work up to excellence in our worship so from the start we’ve had the very best. This was one of the best decisions we made early on as a church.
- Our Tech Team. Like my last post, excellence attracts excellence. When we started off with a great band, people wanted to get involved. God led some of the most talented people to The Well. Jacob Burson produces most of our Sunday morning services and creates all of our videos. From the very beginning stages of the church, our videos looked extremely professional and as if we were a church many years older. Styx and Todd Green run sound for us on Sundays and we couldn’t ask for better sound engineers. These 2 guys know their stuff and make us sound incredible. Greg Henderson, Zakk Nunn, Courtney Smith, and my wife, Melissa, rotate on our lights and video systems. These guys came to the table with zero experience in lighting or video but I would now rank them with anyone else out there. They have taken this task and completely owned it.
- Our Message Series. We do some of the coolest series at The Well. Andy and I meet pretty far in advance and look at a calendar and seek God on what kind of series to do make sure they are relevant to Cartersville, the time of the year, and the people that are coming to the church. I really enjoy doing graphic design so this is where I get to be creative in that area. I design all of our series graphics. I also get to work with an awesome lady named Theresa Stevenson and come up with some really cool set designs. We are slightly limited with the fact that we have to set it up and break it down every Sunday, but we still do some neat stuff. Check out our set design at VBS when we DIDN’T have to be limited.
- LIFE Groups. Technically LIFE Groups (small groups) haven’t launched at The Well yet, but Melissa and I were already involved in one. Andy and Claire taught one at their house and Melissa and I taught one at ours. Also during the summer we had bible studies by the pool called “Dive In”. These will launch after our current series (Disciple) is over and it will change the church in a incredibly positive way. LIFE Groups are where life happens.
- Life Change. This is the most exciting to me and why I love my job at The Well so much. God is moving in incredible ways and blows our minds more and more each and every week. This past Sunday we had 18 people baptized either reaffirming their baptism or as first time professions of faith. WOW! Life change is happening and in huge ways in the life of The Well. I’m so excited to just be a part of it.
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