Mark's Remarks 3/30

The account you often hear from church members in many places is something like this:
We don’t have any young people; they went somewhere else.
We don’t have very many children, and we have NO youth group.
We work very diligently just keeping the building maintained and, when we’re gone, there won’t be anyone left to do it.
We’re just holding on by our fingernails.
Have you heard that from anyone lately? You don’t have to look very far before you find that
as the predominant mode of thought.

Our future is unique in that we are a growing church in a growing community. We have the privilege of looking to the future knowing that we are providing a place for more and more people to meet the Christ, more and more children to be trained in His word, more and more youth to be encouraged through the trials of adolescence, and more families receiving the support they need from other Christians to live in community successfully.

This morning you will hear from our building committee. This group has put in countless hours in meetings, in travel, and in consultation. Thank them, hear them, and then join them in the vision for entering a clean, new and inviting worship.