Coming Along

I finally made the time this morning to take a few photos of how the design is coming along at church.  

(It was dark and raining this morning, so not a lot of pretty natural light.  I'll take more photos later, as we continue to progress on the designs.)

This is the view when you walk in the foyer at our main entrance.

Looking to the left in the foyer.  

(If you go down that hall way you see towards the right in the photo, you come to the sanctuary.)

Looking to the right as you come into the foyer...

Next Saturday we will have a Community Prayer Canvassing event, where we will pray around the entire community (about a 1-mile radius around PoC) and hang about 2500 of these on front door knobs.

View from the back of the sanctuary, looking at the stage, as Celia leads our pre-service prayer time.

The hospitality table at the back of the sanctuary.

Pastor Jessica preached about the Shield of Faith this morning.

Our current sermon series, about the Armor of God...

The Kids of PoC are excited about the new towers that will be outside the classrooms in their hallway!

Our Director of Children's Ministries, Lisa, and her sister Shelia at the children's check-in station...

Our nursery director, Jana, her husband (Pastor of Servant Evangelism) Brian, and baby MacKenzie, who was the only baby in the nursery this morning.

 another view of the nursery

Toddler/Pre-K classroom

Toddler/Pre-K classroom

Elementary Children's Worship

The kids were acting out the story of Abraham and Isaac.  (Caeden was chosen to be Abraham.)

(Sylvia, a little unsure about playing the part of Isaac. ;)

After the service, I watch the children of workers who tear-down the sanctuary and foyer.  Chill time for these kiddos, and maybe a little snack.

Truthfully, July and August have been full of working hard on the design of the building, and we are down in attendance about 10-15 on average these past several weeks.  It can be a tiny bit discouraging to look among the congregation on Sunday morning, and see only 20 people.  However, we trust God will continue to use us to bring people to Himself.  We know there are many who need Him, and we remain burdened and committed to helping them find Jesus.

We were reminded this morning of the story of Gideon in Judges 7, when God pressed him to decrease the number of men in his army in order to bring glory to God when the battle was won.  God draws all people to Himself.  It will not be our work that brings people to the Lord; God will do it.  And we trust Him!