Church Remodeling and such

Well, we grew our auditorium by 15 seats! Yesterday, my Dad and I spent the day cutting down the two unequal pews we had, to be equal in length and short enough to fit from side to side of our auditorium. Before, they were turned lengthwise and when you walked in the front door, everyone was basically looking at you! We wanted to make it more visitor friendly and this also allowed us to set-up two complete rows of chairs. It really looks more like a church now. It felt good, too!

We had 18 in service this morning. I also had Bro. Younkin help lead the service. That was wonderful! I actually got to sit in my chair on the platform! He took the prayer requests (we are still calling them out personally right now) and handled the offering. By the way, we are taking the offering in a black box with a hole in the top that someone had rigged up before we got here! The first week, I thought I would go get us an "up-town" offering bag, but lo-and-behold, the price tag was $46!!!! We are still using the box. We will upgrade someday! (If the Lord lays it on your heart.....!?!)

You should have seen the look of shock on people's faces as they came in today to the new auditorium. It was so neat! My Dad still had some orange modular office walls and they match our orange pews. (We finally got rid of those orange pews in Wichita Falls in the last remodeling project and now we have orange again!)

Our next project is to put the new sign up. The banner came in on Friday and looks really good. I can't wait to see what it will look like! Hopefully we can get it put up on Tuesday. I am borrowing a ladder from the people next door to the church - Jef and Riva Yeh.

Jarrid and Kendra Younkin's little girl, Eliana, is such a cute little baby and is so good in church! That is quite a blessing in a church where there is no nursery and no where to take them except outside if they get loud. This young couple will be taking care of services this Wednesday and Sunday, since we will be heading to Hollister, CA for our niece's (Danelle Hurst) wedding. They are excited to be able to help out and get experience also. We will be flying out on Wednesday after school and coming home Tuesday afternoon. We are looking forward to some cooler weather and some time away, since we didn't get a vacation this year. Camps, then the tryout and taking over process here, took all summer.

This whole remodeling thing started because we wanted to have a Friend Day, but we were afraid we wouldn't have enough seating for everyone! So, now we are ready for our upcoming Friend Day on September 10th. This is the flyer that they are using to invite friends and neighbors to come. Sis. Rhonda and Sis. Crawford were a little unsure about their glowing faces being used on this flyer. I think they look great, but you know how we all are about our pictures!

We enjoyed a wonderful service and an exciting message from Bro. Wayne Francis (the UPCI Youth Department Promotions guy) at the Bernard's church tonight. He was in town speaking at their Youth Retreat. Cameron did not get to go because we did not get moved here in time to get him signed up. Sounds like they had a great time!

Well, that is all I can say... We are a little tired.