The YMCA has been a great place for us to start off as a church. They have been very kind to us. We get to use the building on both Saturday for setup and practice and Sunday for services for a fairly reasonable price. The problem is that that we still have setup and tear down and that process is hard on our gear and hard on the people that do the set up and tear down. No one complains about it and in fact, the process has taught us quite a few things about our people. But at the end of the day, the YMCA is not in the church business and we are.
On Saturday we are going to check out a new location for us to hold services. It's a place that needs quite a bit of work in the cleanup and making pretty department. The great thing is that the place would be ours (at least for a year at at time.) We'd be able to some things in their that we just can't do at the YMCA. It would give us a place to call home.
The other great thing about this location is that is in the fastest growing part of the county and there isn't much in the way of other churches out there. That means we'd have the chance to make a real impact in areas previously neglected by other churches. This really is an exciting time.
I am not sure if we'll even take the building but the mere fact that we have a chance at it is a miracle in and of itself. We'll be out at the place on Wilkins road from 1-2 for everyone who'd like to come and check it out. If we make this move, we want it to be something that as a church we are pretty much all comfortable with. There is a strength that being in unity brings to a church and now is the time for us to be thinking along those lines.
