Turning a Building Around

This week, we have taken yet another step in turning our buildings around. The first of our Welcome Center volunteers have gotten to work. We have sufficient volunteers to staff the Welcome Center Monday through Friday for two weeks, before each volunteer works their next day. That is a reasonable schedule for each of the volunteers--and we are joyfully discovering how much each of them can accomplish in three hours. Now the Welcome Center is "out back" where the cars are parked. Last year it was the Choir Room used for practices and keeping their robes and music. The Choir Room has moved over to the Church Building--the Choir Room has been transformed with new paint and fixings.

Lo and behold, this week the mailbox in front of the Church Office finally wore out. We asked the mailman if we are allowed to move it to the other side of the building. He said it would be no problem. So in the next week or two, we will install the new mailbox near the door of the Welcome Center. The building has not moved, but we are slowly turning it around from the inside out!

My prayer is that as we change the way we use the building, we will also see a change in our perspectives and patterns. We will become even more welcoming, we will practice the biblical discipline of hospitality, and we will show each other grace. There's more work to be done on the buildings, and God has more work to do on our hearts. Praise God that He does do the work and that especially here in Lent, we can see the fruit of that work.