Scott Harris

It’s that time… a New Year, not to mention a New Decade, is upon us.

And I can’t wait to kick-off things right with my new series called The Focused Life!

Haven’t posted in a while so here’s a glimpse inside my life and thoughts:

• Really looking forward to giving my family their Christmas gifts this year.
• Excited about Brooklake’s new website coming early in 2010.
• It’s not too late to invite someone to 1 of 4 Christmas Eve services: 5, 7, 9, 11pm.
• We got 600 packets of Brooklake Blend (Dillanos Coffee) delivered today. Can’t wait to tell you about The Well!
• Ian got his new custom made Taylor guitar yesterday. Sweet story… Mr. Taylor himself took the order.
• Our offerings tomorrow in all 4 Christmas Eve services will go towards a Habitat for Humanity build this Spring. Brooklake is uniting with 11 other churches to build this house in our community.
• So proud of Megan, her team and our Brooklake family for planning and executing on December’s iServe Outreach. We literally provided a very generous Christmas for several single mother’s and their kids.
• Have I mentioned I’m pumped about our 4 Christmas Eve Services tomorrow?
• Thinking about getting a tattoo in 2010. Something to mark my 30’s and the closure of a great decade.
• I was asked the other day if Michelle asked me to take my Twitter & Facebook fast. Nope, my idea!

Finally I’ve gotten the chance to work with Jesse Anderson. He’s helping me creatively brand and think through my teaching series’. Here’s the image going up on our site next week.

What’s even more cool is that this isn’t just stock images. He bought that old suitcase and created the stickers. So I’ll be using that very suitcase each Sunday in July as we address the real and painful issues people face in recovery.

I’ll post the 30 second video teaser on Monday. It’s sweet!

By the way, all the stuff that Jesse’s creating will be available for your church to use. Visit Jesse’s blog or his resource site, called New Worship Media.

Today is Pastor Mike Axton’s Birthday. Yesterday Ian, Tom and I took him to Chambers Bay Golf Course to celebrate.

Lunch before at Ruby Tuesday’s, 18 holes, caddy, and dinner at the club house!

Caddy’s aren’t cheap but we wanted to go that extra mile to make it a special day. But we all would agree, it was money well spent. He improved all of our games! It’s like have a golf lesson on every tee, green and many of the fairways. Seriously, if you want to improve at all, try hiring a caddy for a round instead of a pro at the range (more on this in later post).

Pastor Mike Axton is a great man, husband, father and pastor! Happy Birthday Mike!

Here’s the video of Terry Bratsch that we used in our Easter Services…