A New Adventure

Today started a wonderful new chapter at Church of the Resurrection. On the 6th anniversary of the church's first worship service, we worshiped for the first time in a building that we own instead of a rental space!

There were lots of concerns about the sound in the building because it is a very lively room, and all the more so since the carpet has been removed and we have bare concrete floors for about 2 weeks. We had an informal praise service last night to "calibrate" the sound system, and the results this morning were much better than expected. What an answer to prayer!

One of the benefits of having no carpet, is that the floor is covered with scriptures that are dear to the worshipers. Once the floor is covered by carpet, they'll still be there so we are literally a church which stands on the word of God.

Besides moving into a permanent facility, we also changed from a single service to two services at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. I really wanted to be there for the first service in the building... but it was really hard to get up this morning in order to be there by 8:00 a.m.! Oh... but was it ever worth it!!!

We were blessed with a total of 220 in attendance today for both services! God is good!

Here's a photo and some videos from the 10:30 a.m. service.

The Praise Team at prayer before the start of the service.

First songs. What you can't hear is that on the first verse of "In Christ Alone", I was so overcome with the emotion of hearing the congregation that I could barely keep singing. To hear that profession so strongly from so many people was in incredible experience!

Our offertory song, "Be Thou My Vision", and following Doxology.

What an amazing Sunday!