The new building project started as a seed many years ago when the congregation decided the beautiful, longstanding church building we are currently in was unable to completely fill our needs: spatially awkward, inaccessible to our older church family members, hard to heat and cool, acoustically inadequate among other things.
God has brought this project to bloom this year.
Today we had our first service a the new building. We had a time of prayer and then the church family could write verses on the wall studs.
It was a day to bless God for his blessings toward us.
Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your hearts; for consider what great things He has done for you. ~I Samuel 12:24
Especially precious to me was the children writing verses they had learned and memorized at Awana, Sunday School, or Vacation Bible School.
The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether. They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. ~Psalm 20:7-10
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. ~Ephesians 2:8-10
Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interest, but also for the interests of others. ~ Philippians 2:1-4
Since your last church lasted around a century, it's fun to think of the people remodeling this new building in 2110 or so and finding, and being moved and surprised, by these.
ReplyDeleteI know how excited we were to find a 50 year old newspaper inside one of our walls.
Why was just one person wearing a hard hat to the service?
They had some toy hard hats they handed out to anyone who wanted them -- they were from Bible School a couple years ago.
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