Because People Matter Conference - BPM08

If you haven't signed up to go to BPM08 on Saturday, Nov 8 at the Seneca Campus......you need to do it!!! This is going to be an awesome day that you do not want to miss! If you are a volunteer or thinking of becoming a volunteer at Foothills....this conference is just for you. The will be food, fun, giveaways, and an incredible speaker Mark Waltz, from Granger Community Church.

I would love to have a whole crowd of hootin and hollerin, Jesus lovin, Toccoa volunteers show up that Saturday! It is going to be an amazing day........don't miss it! You can sign up this Sunday at the Welcome Desk or you can RSVP with the church office at 864-888-8008 or 706-886-0996.

For more info visit www.FCCconference.blogspot.com

Life Friends & Lake Hartwell

I have a group of friends that I would consider my best friends in the world. This is a group of guys that I KNOW have my back on any occasion. Not just because they say it, but because they have lived it out. Let me introduce them to you.... their names are Kyle, Allen, Dave, Dave, and Texas (yes that is his real name.....we actually call him T-money.) 4 out of 5 of these guys I have known for over 20 years! The 6 of us have a unique bond.....kind of hard to explain, but it is awesome. We have all scattered and lived in different places over the years, but we still try to maintain contact and do a "guys night out" every couple of months. But once a year we plan a weekend away together. Last year the plans didn't work out, but the year before we went to Chicago for the weekend, ate some great pizza, went to a Notre Dame football game....and just had an all around great time that we won't ever forget.

This year we are doing something more local (mostly because I have Sunday morning committments with the Toccoa Campus!!! Whooo Hooo!!! So we have booked a waterfront cabin at Tugaloo State Park in Lavonia, GA for the weekend of Nov 14. The plan was pretty simple....hangout, watch some football, go hiking, borrow a boat and go out and do a little fishing, cookout, etc. The problem is that when we planned this weekend....it was expected that Lake Hartwell would have some water! I went out and checked out the cabin yesterday and it is awesome....but the water is down about 30 ft from the dock (each cabin has it's own dock). The beach is soft and sandy so we could beach a boat and tie it to the dock....but here is my problem. I know a couple of people with boats that I could probably borrow....but all the boat ramps on the lake are closed! So.....is there anyone out there that has a boat that is actually floating in Hartwell that would let me and my friends borrow it for the weekend for some tooling around and fishing? We really only need it for Saturday....if you do, just email me at shannonchiles@foothillscc.org or leave me a comment here. It would be awesome if someone could help me out.....

Tell me about your Life Friends and kinds of things that you do to maintain contact and a meaningful relationship.

At the movies.....

Okay. So I decided to take my daughters out to the movie this past Saturday night. It is fun to do daddy/daughter nights every once in a while. So, Kayla, Lyric, Lily and myself went out. Jasmine already had plans so it was just the 4 of us. We started the night out at Los Amigos for some killer mexican. I had chicken fajitas as usual....and they were slammin'. The only time I get to have mexican anymore seems to be when my wife Amy is not with me. She has this thing lately that she claims that she smells like beans when she leaves a mexican restaurant.......I don't get it, but it keeps us from eating mexican most of the time. So Los Amigos was a treat for me. I could eat it 5 days a week!

Then we went to the movie. Being with 3 girls....14, 10, and 10.....I will give you one guess what we HAD to go see......... You guessed it "High School Musical 3". I didn't see the first two.....I skillfully avoided all opportunities. But tonight my avoidance techniques were not up to par.....and I joined several dozen other "tweeners" for two hours that I will never get back. Of course if you are into overacting and cheesy plots....you probably would like it!

The funniest thing of the whole night for me was that I ran into Josh Gregory (Foothills Assoc Pastor of Connections) and his wife Rachel......who were there to see the movie....but don't have any children yet! What's up with that!!!?!???. Sorry Josh...I just had to call you out. LOL

All in all...it was a great night with my girls!

I've don't remember ever seeing anything quite this bad!

glumbert - Jesus Is My Friend

Toccoa Falls College

I am so jacked up about what I am doing tomorrow! I am going to meet with a class at Toccoa Falls College. The class is a church planting class taught by Jarvis Crosby. I am going have the opportunity to tell the class about the Foothills Toccoa Campus and hopefully recruit some students that would be interested in helping out! This is so incredible I can't wait! I really think that what we are doing at Foothills will really be interesting for TFC students and I am hoping that lots of students connect with us. If you are a TFC student reading this blog leave me a comment....I would love to hear from you!

Friday Night Lights

Last night my family and I attended our first Stephens County High School football game. First off.....I cannot believe how many people came out for this game...it was amazing. We planned on getting there about 7:00 for the 7:30 game. Surely that would have been fine....right? WRONG!!!! We hit a line about a half mile long out on Big A road going to "The Reservation." I ended up having to drop off everyone while I searched for parking. There were cars and people EVERYWHERE! I had been told that Toccoa was crazy about their football, but I totally underestimated the enthusiasm for this event. Amy, myself, our girls and my sister-inlaw and her husband hung out with Bryan, Kelda, Lisa, Doug, Stacy, Jason, Jennifer and Kel. I also saw Brown and Jo Evelyn while we were there. The first half was a little scary as SCHS got off to a slow start....but the second half rocked! Stephens County ended up winning and all was good. We all reconvened at Sonic afterwards for some ice cream, slushes, sweet tea (with refills) and a lot of fun. The whole night was great.....except that some redneck kept yelling "make 'em bleed!" at the top of his lungs during the game......

the Journey....

I don't know anyone who thinks that they have enough faith. I know that I always feel like I could use a little more. Maybe it's because I have a mind that seems naturally directed by logic, numbers and formulas. Maybe it's because I am a male... convinced that I can figure out just about anything on my own. Or maybe it is just because I choose to be in control even when I know that I should let go.

This journey of going into fulltime ministry as the Campus Pastor for the Toccoa Campus has been an amazing ride so far (and we haven't even had our first service yet!). I remember so clearly that one day as I was praying trying to figure out whether to take this step when God taught me something huge. I was trying to figure out how to make this job change, move from Seneca to Toccoa, etc "work." There were alot more questions than answers. For instance...Do we buy a house and move right away? Do we wait until the house sells to move? Alot of big questions that I didn't know the answer to. What God taught me that day was that He was not going to ALLOW me to know the answers to all the questions. For me to make the move in to this job, God was going to REQUIRE my faith....not just ask for it. So, Amy and I decided that we were going to make a huge step in faith and buy a house in Toccoa and move as soon as we could.

Now for the rest of the story....
We bought our house in Toccoa without selling our house in Seneca. Following my last day at my former job and before my first day at Foothills, Amy and I took a short vacation. When we returned, one of our rental houses (that was supposed to be purchased by the renters) was abandoned by the renters leaving us with a large extra house payment. That gave us 2 house payments for the month of July....3 house payments coming Aug 1 when we started paying for the new house in Toccoa. I was FREAKIN OUT! 3 PAYMENTS!!!! AAAAARGGGGH! But God is good. He immediately brought us a renter for the abandoned house in the middle of July....So we only had to make 1/2 a payment on that house. Then last week, we got a sales contract on our house in Seneca with a months worth of rent for Sept until the loan closes. For those keeping score....in this whole process we have only had to make 2 house payments for ONE month (August)! God is amazing! We had no idea how God was going to work this out.....but he did. The move required our faith....God has taken care of the rest....and HE WILL CONTINUE TO.