First middle school youth meeting

Last night we started our middle school youth group. We have a group of middle schoolers between 11-17 years old. We talked about dinosaurs, the book of Job and creation vs. evolution. We ate some ice cream sundays and played spoons. We had a great time.

Our first service in the new space

before and after

The entrance and the children's rooms.

Today we had our first Sunday service in our new space. We had several new people today and pray that they will continue to come. God has been so good to us and has transformed a space that seemed useless into something that will be used to glorify His holy name. Just exactly what He did with us, transformed something that seemed impossible and useless into something that is useful for His glory. Ohhh Praise Him!

Sorry for the lack of post, but we've been really busy. I (Robin) have been working on the new building for the past month with a good bit of help of course. This weekend is the opening celebration. We are excited, but there is ton of stuff that still needs to be done. Please pray that it all comes together for Sunday. As soon I can get the time I will post some pictures.

A new church home

Well this is it. I know that it doesn't look like much right now, but the Lord has given me a plan for finishing out the space. We will begin contruction on the place this coming Monday, Lord willing. It will probably take two or three weeks before we can move in. Please pray that the Lord will continue to provide for each and every step of the project and give me wisdom in making decisions. When finished we think we will be able to seat about 100-125 people maybe more. We will have at least two Sunday school rooms and two or three bathrooms. We are very excited about the possiblities that this new space gives us. Another large blessing is that the space is located on the main avenue. Praise the Lord for He has already provided so much. We already have money in place to do a lot of the construction. The other incredible blessing is that this space is about a third of what everything else on the avenue cost. We were able to secure a two year contract and this means that all we invest in the space will be for the future as well. We are praying that if it is the Lord's will that He will open the door in the future for us to buy the space, currently the space is not for sale. He is Holy and oh sooo good to His children.

Another possiblity

A few months back we were praying for a new space and thought that we had found the perfect spot, but the Lord's ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts, needless to say it didn't pan out. Now we are looking at a new space. In the traditional Calvary style, the place is a large open warehouse without anything. We will need to build rooms for Sunday school classes and bathrooms. We are excited about the possibility that this offers us as a church and the room that this will give us to grow. We have made an offer on the building (to rent) and are waiting on the Lord for the answer. Please join us in prayer for this new space.

English classes as an outreach

This month I began teaching classes in English pronunciation and communication. The class is full, I have about 25 students, some are from the church and some not. We are hoping to be able to minister to them as they come to the class. The point of the class is to reach out to university age students, which is exactly what we have. I have one problem, the church is overfull and if they come they will have no where to sit. So please pray for these lost souls and pray continually for the Lord to provide us a new church building. Our children's ministry is overflowing and people are standing outside in the hot sun on Sunday mornings. Please pray with us. We are currently talking to someone about another building on the main ave, it used to be a Radio Shack. Please Lord provide for your church.