Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Reasons I'm Stoked (about Church)

The top reasons I'm stoked about Church today (is stoked soooooooo 2004? 1994? worse?):
  • One Service. We are really close to moving into our new building and going back to one Sunday morning service. A few more meetings and a few more decisions and BAM, we start announcing and implementing the move.
  • The Race Track and the Legends. Wyandotte County is continuing to develop with new restaurants, shops, and attractions. The benefit to us has been new jobs and housing in the area the last few years, which equals more opportunities for the Gospel.
  • Wednesdays. Most churches our size don't have much more than an Adult Bible Study on Wednesdays, if that. We have something for every age group and it's growing. We are already seeing two or three times the number of people here on Wednesday nights than in past years.
  • Leaders. Churches have two types of leadership: the demoralizing, petty, personality focused kind and the humble, servant-hearted, Christ-focused kind. We have the latter, praise God!
  • Youth. And not just the kids, but also the number of young adults, married and unmarried, with kids and without. We have a ton of people between 20 and 50. And on some Sundays we have as much as one-sixth of the church in the nursery! That's a good problem to have.

1 comment:

Thumper said...

3 Month update:

We are in the new building and attendance is fantastic (even through the annual May-July slump).

God is so good to us!