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Re: First Sunday In Our New Church!
First two of our three Sunday services are over and I just got home. Things went amazingly well. No technical glitches the first service in the building, God's presence was there, and people showed up!
We are kind of off on a side street / road that not a lot of people drive by daily so I was a little worried about all of our regulars making the trip to the new building and even more about new people finding us. I shouldn't have worried though because with no advertising other than the local newspapers bit about us we had 217 people in the 9 am service, 351 in the 11 am service for a total of 568 so far with one more service to go at 6 pm tonight.
I think the most people we have ever had in all three services is a little over 550 and we have had more than that the first two services this morning with a good chance of topping 800 total after the 6 pm service.
I am not a numbers guy except that each of those numbers represents a soul hearing the saving / life changing Gospel of Jesus Christ! It is a little scary though to be almost out of room in our first Sunday in the new building. I think we can put another 100-150 chairs in there so that should help plus there were probably some Easter only folks there today! Will be interesting to see attendance next week.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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