At night they all split up to spend the night in homes that were set to host them (and feed them).
They had lessons in the home groups before finally going to sleep and heading back to the Church the next day.
There were 4 kids that accepted Jesus as thier Savior over the weekend. That's what it's all about.
Today was the first regular Sunday service in our new building. All the chairs were set up the night before in hopes that a large crowd would come. Before the service started they had to bring in even more chairs! The official count for the day was 496. Tony said that to a preacher, that's 500.
We started the service with a baptism. Jason Ramsey, the contractor for the building, baptised one of the workers who had been saved during construction. 25 workers accepted Christ during the construction of this building.
Tony preached a wonderful sermon, as usual. We were tweaking the sound system through out the entire service trying to get it to sound good. I hope we were successfull.
I didn't get upstairs to take a overview picture of the entire room. I was too busy running the computer and helping with the sound. But above is the right side...
and this is the left side. Everything worked fairly well. Only one thing didn't work. We couldn't get the audio to play on a video they wanted to show. Hopefully that will be fixed by next week.
Then it was time to eat! JohnE was excited about that. There was lots of food for everyone.
They set up the serving lines in the fellowship hall. After you got your food you would head out to eat in the lobby area or...
back in the gym. We quickly rolled out tables and moved the chairs around so everyone would have a place to sit. It was a great first Sunday! If you didn't make it, we hope to see you soon.
After Sunday morning services, and lunch, we loaded up at the old Church...
The hand rails for the stairs are stained and ready to be installed.
It was a full house Sunday for the last service at the old Church.
OK, these pictures are NOT from our new Church. We had our new years family reunion at First Baptist Grandview today. These signs were in their hallway.
After giving a tour of our new Church to some family members, who kept wondering where they were, maybe we need signs like this at our new Church. My Dad said he could give us the name of the person who made these signs.
The front offices are coming along. Carpet is down and most of the ceiling tile is in. Office windows are in place.
The game room is all carpeted and ready to go.
The Fellowship Hall was full of stacks of chairs to be used for Sunday morning services.
The elevator has been finished out.
This is the adult classroom hallway. Just needs a little clean up to be ready for classes.
The basketball goals are up and the walls are carpeted in the gym.
Doors in the youth room are waiting to be installed.
Water fountains are in but not all of the plumbing is finished.
Stairs are carpeted.
The walking track upstairs is ready for people to start doing laps.
A view of the stage. The gym floor was taped off so the line could be painted the next day.
The sound system was being installed this day too. The amps and other equipment will be locked up backstage.
This is one of the sub woofers installed under the front of the stage.
The main speaker array over the stage.
Spot lights at the front of the stage.
A close up of one of the rear projection screens.
One of the air vents. There was discussion as to what color to paint them (some people think they are ugly). I think they should be painted the same color as the carpet so they will blend in and disappear. The last picture is the kitchen in the youth room.
