August 4, 2010

What's the latest?

For starters, I replaced a hard drive in my laptop on Tuesday night and it feels good to be working on my own machine again.  I'm actually getting and can send mail.  Wow! What a treat!

Cookout
Check out the pics from our first cookout

Some attendees at first cookout

Jeff cooking for our first cookout

Pot Luck Dinner
In spite of a rainy night on Saturday July 31, we had a good turnout for our first organizational meeting at the Brazell's. As we get closer to our start date, it's important that everyone knows their assigned jobs and where they'll be ministering.  We handed out information on some job descriptions and heard everyone give a short testimony on their gift and how they plan to contribute their talents and time to Journey Baptist Church.

Buildings

Future Church

So far this week we managed to get the permits along with inspections by the Fire Marshall and County Inspector.  We're still working on a little red tape, but we're well on our way to signing a lease on the buidlings.

Jim Filiatrault and John Heacock took a look at the buildings to see about adding dividers for different areas of usage. 

Hopefully, early next week we'll hear from the owners on what our next step is to move forward with occupancy.

Clean up Day
Due to the minor setback on our first building, there is no clean-up day on Saturday August 7.  This is actually good because this is mine and Jean's 28th wedding aniversary, so I think I'll spend the day with her instead.

Cottage Prayer Meeting
We had another good prayer meeting on Monday August 2.  Our next prayer meeting is at Cary and Jeannette Farr's house in Lexington at 6:30 PM on Monday night August 9.  We encourage as many as can make it to come out and pray for Journey Baptist Church.  The Farr's address is: 100 Misty Meadows Ct., Lexington, SC 29072.

Canvassing
Our first day to hand out flyers and information about the church is Saturday August 14 starting at 9:00 AM.  We will meet at Journey Baptist Church at 636 Pine Ridge Drive, West Columbia, SC 29172.  Deannie Shelton is working on getting our maps so we know where to go.  We will have donuts, coffee and bottled water at the church for those who come out. Remember to wear comfortable shoes.

Pastor Hector