Going Over 10,000!!!

Looks like I'll pass the 10,000 hit milestone with my blog after only about 13 months online! (Plus, would you believe that we will have 10,000 eggs + for our Easter Egg Hunt here @ CFA...the city's largest!!)

This blog has created the medium for me to reach people around the United States and the world with news about our flood rebuilding project at Columbus First Assembly. Literally hundreds of pictures have been posted here giving daily and weekly updates since the Flood of 2008 struck our church back on June 7th, 2008.

Today I'm posting the dates for our return back to CFA in our completely rebuilt Regional Worship Center. Are you ready? Here we go...

• First Wednesday Night Family Ministries Night: April 15th @ 7 pm!
• First Sunday School Classes: April 19th @ 9 am!
• Dedication Sunday Celebration: Sunday, June 7th!
  

We are ecstatic about coming home to CFA for weekly ministry classes, ministry groups, outreaches, fellowships, etc. Nine months is a long time to be spent in a borrowed church facility...though we are extremely grateful to the friends at MBC for their kindness and hospitality. It's time to "reclaim" our spacious regional worship center!

Soon we will have our commercial-sized appliances and renovated kitchen space in action once again. Awesome updates and improvements in this fellowship hub of our church. You must check out the size of our refrigerator, freezer, stove and ice machine...plus all those new cabinets! Betsy, are you ready to organize your workers into putting our kitchen back together?

Soon we will have a much larger space for our church library. It will be placed in the old Youth Pastor's office. Helen, are you ready to get started moving all those books, tapes, videos, and resources into our new library?

Soon we will have a much more open ministry space for our Toddler Church. Two rooms will be opened up into one massive area with a folding accordion door. Lori, are you ready to let those toddlers loose in this new space?

Soon we will open up our nursery room complete with new carpeting, paint and cabinets. April, are you ready to love on our babies in this renovated space?

Soon we will have a brand new custodial room as compared to the custodial cabinet. Martha and Kevin, are you ready to organize this new space for all your cleaning supplies, paper products, light bulbs, paint, vacuum cleaners, brooms, mops, trash bags, etc, etc.?

Soon we will house our Kid's Church in the renovated kid's commons area in the large, high-ceiling room in the basement of our church. Tammy, are you ready to set up your ministry space to teach our children week after week?

Soon we will open up 12 newly renovated classrooms for our Sunday School program and Wednesday night family ministries. Shawn, Phil, Ted, Jeff, Jennifer, Candy, Debbie, Tess, Tammy, Pastor Joel & Holli and all our teachers...are you ready to teach your classes back home @ CFA?

In the near future, we hope to reopen our Hope Outreach Center to minister to people in our community with food and clothing and other supplies. We believe that God would have us to touch our community with compassion ministries in reaching our city for Jesus Christ!

This past Sunday I preached on "Maximizing Your Marriage!" Click on the sermon title to go to our website to listen to this needed message! Husbands and wives need now more than ever encouragement and truth in this culture that we live. Plus we showed the movie "FIREPROOF" Sunday night as well! Powerful film.

Still believing and praying for God to lead us to our DEBT FREE miracle before or on Dedication Sunday. Let me encourage you to make a generous contribution on our secure online giving site: www.columbusfirstassembly.org

Much love to all!