The Curtain Is Up

That should keep the stray basketballs off the stage.

New Title

Well, since the contruction at the Church is pretty much over (there are still ongoing projects), I decided to change the name of this blog.  When we have different activities and I remember my camera, I'll post those pictures here.

Disciple Now Weekend

There were over 100 kids signed up for the Disciple Now weekend at the new Church.  They held their group meetings in the youth room and did other activities thru the day.

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.

First Sunday in the New Building

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.

Moving Day!

After Sunday morning services, and lunch, we loaded up at the old Church...

and unloaded it all at the new Church!

Some people didn't handle the stress well.

The youth were still working on their room.

This is Coach Ellis' classroom all set up and ready to go.

The hand rails for the stairs are stained and ready to be installed.

Alot of the kids played ball.

Who's going to set up all those chairs for next Sunday morning?

I guess they finally got through the door.

If you have to move a pool table, this is the way to do it.

Last Sunday Morning At The Old Church

It was a full house Sunday for the last service at the old Church.

Signs

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.