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BEACH BAPTISM

BEACH BAPTISM

Beach Baptism This Weekend!

I'm so excited about the weekend!

We will be baptizing at the beach in the Pensacola area and in South Florida:

Pensacola Beach Pier - 5pm CST

South Florida - Ft. Lauderdale Beach - 5pm EST

12,000+

We had an awesome weekend here at Flamingo Road Church. We are doing a series call "Heroes and Villains".


It started this weekend and we were praying for and expecting an incredible weekend. God gave us what we asked for and more.
I have had the privilege to serve at FRC for over twenty years. I can still remember praying with Dan Southerland and Allen Distefano way back then for this weekend. We prayed for the day that we would break through the 10.000 mark. This past weekend we had over 12,000 in weekend attendance. It was the first time we have broken through the 10,000 mark on a regular weekend.
It is so awesome to see a prayer answered that was prayed over twenty years ago. We feel honored and blessed that God would bless and trust us with this.
I will be fun to see what God does in the next twenty years.

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Leadership Summit 2009

Leadership Summit Promo from Flamingo Road Church on Vimeo.

Awesome Series

Awesome new series at FRC over the next few weeks...


Come and check it out!

Leadership Summit 2009

Leadership Summit Promo from Flamingo Road Church on Vimeo.

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Summit Spotlight: Bono

Bono is the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, which has sold more than 140 million albums and won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys. A well-known activist in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa, he co-founded DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) in 2002, The One Campaign in 2004, and Product (RED) in 2006, and was named TIME’s Person of the Year for 2005. Interviewed for the Summit in 2006, he challenged church leaders to mobilize against the ravages of global AIDS and poverty. Be a part of the continuing story, as Bono talks in an exclusive video about the church's inspiring response and about his continuing life journey as a "single issue protagonist.

Danielle's Engagement

Last night was an awesome night for our family. Our youngest daughter Danielle got engaged to a great young man Thomas Glover. He loves God, our daughter and our family. The only problem is that he is a Georgia Bulldog fan. That's ok because their coach played at "The U".


The whole event was captured on TV. You can see it from the link below...
http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/local/49651887.html

We are celebrating this time with our family and thanking God for answering our prayers from many years ago before Danielle was even born. We are excited to have another godly young man in our family. Welcome to the gang Thomas. We will all be cheering for the Bulldogs when they play the Gators!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day Dad!
I miss you!

Desperation

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
Henry David Thoreau

I wish I could say that I have always lived this characteristic of wisdom out in my life but the truth is I have not.
Sometimes things done in desperation work out but most of the time they don't.
I remember when my wife and I bought a car that was a piece of junk. It was an act of desperation. The good part of that story is that we learned a valuable lesson. Now when we make any large purchase we take at least a day to pray about it.
This is not an answer car-dealers like to hear but it has allowed us not to act impulsively or out of desperation.

This weekend we will be kicking off a brand new series called The End.

Is the end near? Everybody has questions and during this series we will see what the Bible says about the end times.

You're not going to want to miss it. Click here for service times and directions to one of our campuses.

Mother's Day

My mom is going to be in town this weekend. I am pumped that she will be here with my family.
She is coming in for two reasons...

1. My daughter Danielle is graduating from Palm Beach Atlantic University (We are so proud of her)


2. She will be here so we can honor her on Mother's Day.


My Mom is awesome! She is an incredible example to my whole family.
One of the ways that we will honor her is by taking her to church at FRC.

You can do the same.
Check out this link to see all that will be going on.

http://www.troygramling.com/mothers-day

Don't miss this incredible opportunity.

Good Research

Good research always pays off.
By taking the time to do some good research I have found the true source of Swine influenza...

Hmmm!

"If you had one month left to live, you'd be surprised at all the things that really didn't matter any more"
Wayne Cordeiro

Nasty

I have a friend who is going through a nasty divorce. Both he and his wife are hurting in a big way from all that is going on. They have children and there is a lot of anger and confusion on their part as well. I have really struggled with how to help them. I want to be a good friend and give them the best direction that I can.
I have something that I am sharing with them and you. If you or someone you know is going through this same struggle you need to check out the video below.
This is a way to find healing from one of those things that can get pretty nasty.

I've Missed

We will remember this for the rest of our lives

Every once in a while you experience things that you will never forget. I know our minds are full of memories both good and bad but what I am talking about here is those obvious things that you can look at someone and say, "We will remember this for the rest of our lives".

That is the kind of experience that we had at Flamingo Road Church this past weekend.

Easter weekend always gives us great opportunities. This past weekend our team at FRC leveraged that opportunity to touch peoples lives.

We saw thousands come to events in the communities that we serve in.

We saw thousands come to our services.

We saw hundreds give their lives to Christ.

We saw over 600 put on the God-jersey by being baptized.

Galatians 3:27(CEV),

"And when you were baptized, it was as though you had put on Christ in the same way you put on new clothes."

We have an incredible team at FRC.

We work hard.

We celebrate what God is doing in our church and community.

We thank God for giving us a weekend that "we will remember for the rest of our lives".

Ash Trays and Church

I pulled up to FRC the other morning and I saw a ash tray when I got out of my car.


My first reaction was to start laughing.
I remember when I was a kid some of the men in our church would stand to the side of the front entrance and smoke their cigarettes before they came in.
The funny part is that the people who would complain the most about these smokers were tobacco farmers.
I can still remember my dad talking about it.
I guess the reason I started laughing when I saw this is that I know some people will complain about it. They might even say that we are making it easier for some to smoke.
The way look at it is that I am so honored to work at a church that is reaching people in our community. When you are in the people business it can get messy every once in a while. After all they are just like you and me.
I hope you will leverage everything you can to bring people to FRC this Easter weekend.
We will be ready for you and them. Ash trays and all!
Check out the link below for the service times at all 7 campuses....
Don't miss it and don't come alone!

Easter Rally

Tomorrow night we are having an Easter Rally at the Cooper City Campus of FRC. We are going to get ready for our Easter services.We are going to be doing a ton of Easter services at FRC starting Friday the 10th going through Sunday the 12th.Here is the important part of tomorrow night....
You have to get here early!
We are going to start with a BANG!
Make sure you are here by 6:45 so you can get in and ready because at 7:00 - BAM!!!