Well that was enough church planting disappointment for one blog-week, now for some excitement. Soon and very soon (er, tomorrow – Ed) we have the first gathering of Providence Church’s Midland plant. As we say in theological parlance – “Woohoo!”. I thought I would provide you with some details of what to expect.
Meeting Venue Description (warning: Real Estate Speak follows – Ed):
A cosy heritage building with all of the period features that you would come to expect in a “between the wars” property (the McAlpine’s 1929 clapboard and iron cottage – Ed). With three large (small – Ed) meeting rooms (lounge room, kitchen, Sophie’s bedroom – Ed) the building affords plenty of room (no room at all – Ed) to grow. Complete with cold and hot (lukewarm – Ed) running (dripping – Ed) water, it is proof that they don’t make buildings like this anymore (The most up-to-date building codes ensure higher levels of safety, non-toxicity of product and over-engineering of roof timbers – Ed). All in all we can’t think of a better place to start the Providence Midland gathering (the local primary school said “no” – Ed).
Personnel Description by SIGHT:
A rag-tag group of families, young marries, children, new Christians, tired Christians and some people interested in Jesus. Often weary, always on the go, and working longish hours with a freeway crawl from and to home.
Personnel Description by FAITH:
A chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that they may proclaim the excellencies of him who called them out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once they were not a people, but now they are God’s people; once they had not received mercy, but now they have received mercy.
And that, folks, is why I am so excited about it.
Well done you street spruker you!! Love it when I am proved wrong. Very good for the ego. lol. Seriously, I pray God walks ahead of you in this new planting Steve and Jill xxxx