As you can see from the pictures, the auditorium is under construction to open it up so that we can get 450 people in there at one time. It also gives us a normal shape to the auditorium which creates better acoustics.
Every time I enter the building I immediately go in to see what work has been done. I love it. It's fun to see the changes and even do church in the "warehouse" look. When it is all done, we will have greater space to grow and greater heigth in the room so that we fix two projector screens left and right of the stage giving better visibility. We should be set for the years to come....in the auditorium. Next step will be extra offices and more children's space when God bring us more people.
All of this focus on facility can be a bit dangerous since our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God and to liberate a generation with the life and love of Jesus Christ. We must understand that the work done on the facility is simply setting up the Base Camp to help us fulfill the mission. It certainly isn't the mission. Let that be clear.
In order to keep it clear it our minds while the work is going on, we are planning to give our entire offering this Saturday evening (Jan. 26) to the Rockford Rescue Mission. The last time we did this we raised 12k for the work of the mission which we partner with. Jesus told us that we should put our treasure where we want our heart to go and that is why we are doing this. At Harvest Bible Chapel, we are on mission and we do not want to be distracted by anything even if it's a good thing - like setting up the Base Camp.
Every time I enter the building I immediately go in to see what work has been done. I love it. It's fun to see the changes and even do church in the "warehouse" look. When it is all done, we will have greater space to grow and greater heigth in the room so that we fix two projector screens left and right of the stage giving better visibility. We should be set for the years to come....in the auditorium. Next step will be extra offices and more children's space when God bring us more people.
All of this focus on facility can be a bit dangerous since our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God and to liberate a generation with the life and love of Jesus Christ. We must understand that the work done on the facility is simply setting up the Base Camp to help us fulfill the mission. It certainly isn't the mission. Let that be clear.
In order to keep it clear it our minds while the work is going on, we are planning to give our entire offering this Saturday evening (Jan. 26) to the Rockford Rescue Mission. The last time we did this we raised 12k for the work of the mission which we partner with. Jesus told us that we should put our treasure where we want our heart to go and that is why we are doing this. At Harvest Bible Chapel, we are on mission and we do not want to be distracted by anything even if it's a good thing - like setting up the Base Camp.
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