New Church Facility

In a few weeks our church will be moving into a new facility we are leasing. We have renovated the 2nd floor of a unfinished light industrial building to meet our needs as a growing congregation. We are so excited about having our own space! We currently meet in a university on Sunday moornings. I am eager to establish Sunday school in classrooms where we don't have to operate out of bins each week! You can view some short videos of the facility here. The video of the children's rooms is in the nursery corridor. Way too much yellow right now! A couple of the yellow rooms are actually supposed to be green and they will be repainted soon.

After building the playground at LMPC I swore that I would never build anything again.....and now I remember why.

Goodbye to Dave

We spent the weekend furiously unpacking the first floor so that we could host a dessert on Sunday night. Our friend Dave is leaving this week for a year of mission work in East Asia. A few of us got tegether to hear about his mission and pray for him. It was a sweet time of fellowship.

John and I hope this house will be used to bless others in every way possible. Since returning from Scotland my "revolving front door" has not worked too well and I'm a bit out of the habit of using my home to minister to people. The extra space in the house will be wonderful for hosting a new fellowship group we are shepherding called Crossroads. It's for twenty something singles and marrieds. We started it just after returning from our honeymoon and it has been gaining some momentum over the summer. Our first topic was a discussion series to coincide with the summer sermon series on Biblical Sexuality. How's that for an easy starter topic?

Home, Sweet Home

John and I moved into this house last Friday. Our friends from church moved to Japan for three years and we jumped at the chance to "take care" of their house for them. It puts us in one place for three years considering we're not sure we will stay in this area after the next census. Our new home is in Glen Rock, NJ. Now I have a small commute to work - about 20 minutes when there are no traffic jams. John enjoyed a very short bus commute during our couple months in the honeymoon apartment. Short is relative - about 45 minutes from the front door to his midtown office. Now he's back to 1:15 commute by train. But we both love having all this space, especially for visitors!

Supposedly Glen Rock has an amazing public pool. Everybody keeps asking "Have you been to the pool yet?" Next summer.