bobgsmith

PURSUIT PEEPS!

We've all heard the sermon about the church not being a building but the people.  Here are a few of the Pursuit peeps!                                                                                                                                  

This is Erin Diaz, our Community Groups leader.  Today she is wearing her other hat (and beautiful it is) as Children's leader.  She is from Central Christian in Carmel, IN and is a blessing to our team.

This is Abby!  Here parents moved here from North Carolina and I love the way they talk.  They came the second they were in town and are regulars now.  Isn't she cute!    She is manning the 'Children's check-in' for us.  Her dad, Rob, is studying to be a chef.

   

  These lovely ladies are setting up our Welcome Center.  Joharris is from Puerto Rico and is working hard on her English.  She also is teaching Linda and I Spanish.  Adriana is Alex Diaz, our worship leader's, sister.  She is a dentist from Venezuela and is studying to be a dentist in the States.  They are both wonderful young ladies!

But we still have room for you!!!

bob

NEW CHURCH HOME!

First I apologize for not doing a better job of keeping this updated.   There has been a lot happening so here goes...

This is our new church!  If it looks like a warehouse - that's because it is.  But for the last eight years it has served as a Presbyterian church.  They had dwindled down to about 20 and have now joined a larger Presbyterian church.  So we are meeting here 24/7 for about half the price we were paying at the ballroom.  In addition, the Presbyterian brothers left us all the furnishings that we wanted.  God is VERY good!

I agreed that it doesn't look like much from the outside but they had done a lot of work to the inside.   It will seat around 100 and last week we had 85.  During the last several weeks our folks have invited some of their friends and I think they are going to stick around.   In addition to the worship center, we have 3 rooms for our children's area.  Much bigger than we've had previously.  I think we need a little more equipment for the band - don't you. 

One of our single guys was at Borders and a young lady asked him if he knew anything about the book she was holding.  It was the 40 DOP book.  He told her our church was just starting to study that and invited her to a community group.  She and her boyfriend attended the Community group and then came to worship Sunday.

bob 

How many keyboards do you need?

Linda is practicing her keyboard skills as she prepares to lead worship at the Village Church.     I must admit I enjoy hearing "His Eye is on the Sparrow","Amazing Grace", and "At Calvary," come floating in from the music/guestroom.

But then she got to talking Alex, our Worship Director, and now we have two keyboards.  I'm sure that one does something the other doesn't or maybe every musician needs two or needs them different colors.

Well, I love the music and the musician.

bob

Let's Eat!

The Villlage is like most places I've visited or lived.  Community takes place around the dining room table.

This is the last meeting of Linda's summer Ladies Bible Study.  So, they decided to have a meal.  What sweet fellowship, as these ladies who were mostly strangers 8 weeks ago now have bonded into a community. We called several of them during the hurricane scares to check on the.

Several of them plan to continue on studying the Bible as Linda leads a group in the 40 Days of Purpose study that our church is doing.

God is working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!