A pretty busy week...
We had the SALT Campus Connection last Friday and Saturday and all I hear is good reviews. Our students loved it and people from other areas must have really enjoyed it as well. We had folks from Alexandria, Hillsboro, Trinity, Huntsville, Beaumont... and I don't know where else. We had a great time with all of our guest and we had several from the local campuses!
Sunday we had good church (of course it could have been better) but I think everyone was really zapped from the previous days. We have a great team of leaders with good ideas constantly being fowarded. It really is amazing what difference a good team can make! I will write more on this later:).
We are getting ready to go into another phase of growth at the church. Not only in the physical building but also in our managment style. I am supposed to take our new plans by the bank today to get our loan approval for adding on a new Sunday School wing. It will add four more classrooms which is desperatley needed. We've been having to keep all of our 2 year olds all the way up to 11 year olds in the same class. Now I don't teach the class, but they tell me that this is a challenge; I can only imagine. Not only the group age difference, but we are also stuffing anywhere from 15 to 20 kids with two teachers in a small 12X20 room...
This new wing will allow is to divide that class into more age appropriate material, settings and lessons. It will also open up the old nursery to be used by the church secretary and the Sunday School superintendant, when we get one. That should be soon actually.
Looking forward, things look good... I believe that we should be able to get this addition built before Thanksgiving. Then we will probably have to build a new sanctuary around mid summer of next year. How? - I have no clue, God can make a way where there is no way. We have seen that done many times before, haven't we class!!! That building probably needs to seat about 250-275. Right now we can literally put about 140 people in our current church building. That is counting every seat in the house, even on the platform, etc... So in reality, we might can get 115 to 120 in there without having guest feel overwhelmed by a hot body sitting right next to them. We have been running around 100, but our regular people add up to about 125-130. I guess you can't get everyone there at once:). That may be a good thing for a little while... Just playing guys!
So - - - We continue to trust God! Our God can do ANYTHING!
Sunday we had good church (of course it could have been better) but I think everyone was really zapped from the previous days. We have a great team of leaders with good ideas constantly being fowarded. It really is amazing what difference a good team can make! I will write more on this later:).
We are getting ready to go into another phase of growth at the church. Not only in the physical building but also in our managment style. I am supposed to take our new plans by the bank today to get our loan approval for adding on a new Sunday School wing. It will add four more classrooms which is desperatley needed. We've been having to keep all of our 2 year olds all the way up to 11 year olds in the same class. Now I don't teach the class, but they tell me that this is a challenge; I can only imagine. Not only the group age difference, but we are also stuffing anywhere from 15 to 20 kids with two teachers in a small 12X20 room...
This new wing will allow is to divide that class into more age appropriate material, settings and lessons. It will also open up the old nursery to be used by the church secretary and the Sunday School superintendant, when we get one. That should be soon actually.
Looking forward, things look good... I believe that we should be able to get this addition built before Thanksgiving. Then we will probably have to build a new sanctuary around mid summer of next year. How? - I have no clue, God can make a way where there is no way. We have seen that done many times before, haven't we class!!! That building probably needs to seat about 250-275. Right now we can literally put about 140 people in our current church building. That is counting every seat in the house, even on the platform, etc... So in reality, we might can get 115 to 120 in there without having guest feel overwhelmed by a hot body sitting right next to them. We have been running around 100, but our regular people add up to about 125-130. I guess you can't get everyone there at once:). That may be a good thing for a little while... Just playing guys!
So - - - We continue to trust God! Our God can do ANYTHING!
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