Our first day

[Billy n NC]

Yesterday was an awesome day.

We passed all our inspections on Friday afternoon.

We got to have our first church service in our new building.

It was a long time coming. We had been in the wilderness (Warehouse church in office park) for 4 years. When we moved in we thought 1-2 years tops. LOL

In March of 2008 we had groundbreaking service.

Yesterday was a great day. we had to bring in extra chairs. packed house.

Pastor had everyone assemble at the front carport and everyone read a prayer before officially coming into the building. The prayer was being thankful and asking God to help us leave our old ways of basic stinkin thinking and let the past be the past .

Praise & Worship was great. Pastor Preached on New Beginning.

He pulled a section of the Pre service prayer and expounded on it.

: “This is a time of new beginnings, a time to bring an end to those things that hinder us collectively and individually. I renounce and let go of any division, selfishness, bitterness, old wounds, and familiar spirits that may have hindered my life and this church. I rebuke them in the name of Jesus and pronounce that they have no place here.”

Great day.


Upon dismissal of service Our fire alarm started going off. 4 or 5 times and here comes the fire department rolling in. Someone said we had a smokin hot service.


It was a good day. I'll get some pics up soon.


PS. We officially renamed our church to

Bridge of Hope

still cogop.

[deb]

Sounds awesome!

Better watch them fire trucks - in VA you get a bill from them if they actually respond to the fire alarms and come out

[beckrl]

That's great to hear. And I like the new name.

[PastorP]

Upon dismissal of service Our fire alarm started going off. 4 or 5 times and here comes the fire department rolling in. Someone said we had a smokin hot service.

Must be a virus that is in new churches. When we had our first service in our new building in January of 2004, our fire alarms went off as well.

Gave us quite a shock.