Church is moving on!!

For the past five years we've had the privilege of hosting Nueva Vida Baptist Church in our home. I have to say that it has been a wonderful experience and I'd even do it again! We've watched a lot of folks come through our doors during this time. We so appreciate our three founding Mexican families that have been with us since the beginning. Our family units has now grown to 20!

I'll be honest. I don't quite know what to do with my house. We need to replace our livingroom furniture and the carpets upstairs in the bedrooms. I think we've about decided to leave things as they are until we can replace the furniture. For the past five years we downsized our furniture. We got rid of some, hid some and scrunched the rest into our t.v. area. On Sundays we've moved a chair into the office and moved our loveseat against a wall to spread things out. This allowed us to have a very large open space to hold over 50 folks comfortably. We will have around 50 black chairs that we will still store at our home. The property where we will be renting already has chairs for the auditorium. We will only need to supply chairs for the kids. My mind has been spinning as I try and think of things that the church has had here that we will need to move by next Sunday. Also we will need to be able to store things at the property probably in plastic bins. In some ways it will be a little more work to have church at the new property but it will give more opportunities for folks to serve and take more ownership of the church. Nueva Vida is still God's Church but instead of Sam, Jamie and the Hornbrook girls getting the church ready every week, folks will take turns arriving early on Sundays to spot clean and make sure things are in order.

Pray for us this weekend as we clean on Saturday and have church Sunday at the park! Everyone here at church voted unanimously for the move and there is a lot of excitement! Nearly every church family is coming to the Work Day on Saturday!!! One lady spoke up and told us that she loves to paint and that she could paint all day!!! Now that's exciting!!!!!!!!! She later told me that she paints her house every year because she loves to paint that much!

Please continue to pray for us. If this property should sell, and we aren't the buyers, then we'd have to look for another place to rent. I've mentioned before that we'd love to buy this property but we have to see what the Lord does!