Just a quick note...our daughter, Gracie, has been battling a case of strep throat for weeks. Just as soon as we think we've got it beat, it comes back with a vengeance. She ran a fever last weekend, we took her to the doctor on Monday, and the tests came back last night positive.
I had told a couple of people I'd be in the office today. Unfortunately, because of her strep, I am having to work from home today. If you need me, please email me or call me on my cell.
Thanks!
Jason
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday Discussions
Hello again, everyone. Many people have enjoyed our break from our in-depth Hebrews study the last two Tuesday nights as we have watched the video Three Degrees of Separation and held discussions about it.
We've decided to take at least one more week to discuss the topics covered in this video, specifically the topic of abortion and the Christian response. If you are interested in this topic and would like to come, I highly recommend watching the video and coming this Tuesday.
By the way, we're still needing items for the nursery. Please contact me if you can provide any of these:
Jason
We've decided to take at least one more week to discuss the topics covered in this video, specifically the topic of abortion and the Christian response. If you are interested in this topic and would like to come, I highly recommend watching the video and coming this Tuesday.
By the way, we're still needing items for the nursery. Please contact me if you can provide any of these:
- pack n play sheets
- Plug covers
- 2 Small shelves
- Spray bottles
- Laundry bags
Jason
Monday, October 27, 2008
A Few More Needs
Greetings, church. We have a few more needs for our children's ministry. Can anyone help us with these?
Jason
- pack n play sheets
- Plug covers
- 2 Small shelves
- Wipes
- Spray bottles
- Laundry bags
Jason
Tuesday Night Discussion
I want to remind everyone who is interested in our discussion of Christianity and politics to be at our meeting Tuesday night for the rest of our video ("Three Degrees of Separation") and discussion. If you'd like to watch the video and catch the part that you missed last Tuesday, click here.
Jason
Jason
Sunday Service Pics
We took some candid pics for our website this Sunday, and those have been placed on our gallery at http://www.castlechristian.com. If you'd like copies of them, here they are:
Meeting Synopsis
Hey everyone,
Just a reminder that we had a meeting yesterday (Oct 26) to update everyone on our planned move. For those of you who could not be there yesterday, here is the information we shared.
A few months ago our church voted unanimously to change our budget and to move to this new location across the street. Our budget is working for us and that has proven to be a good change. As far at the move goes, we had made an arrangement with the owner's contractor to pull the permits for us and we would do the necessary labor to make the building workable for us. At first this seemed extremely reasonable, as our doing the work would make the price for the units very nice for us.
Over the following weeks we took the steps necessary. We had drawings made and presented them to the owner's contractor. This is when the contractor told us that he could NOT pull the permits for us to do the work, even though that had been our agreement. At that point there was little we could do other than find a contractor who would help us.
We talked to several people, and finally found the necessary licensed commercial contractor. He gave us a price of around $12,000 to do the necessary labor. He explained that the tasks we thought would be fairly simple were actually going to be pretty difficult.
Unfortunately, right now that kind of cost is beyond our church's means. Beside this, the economical struggles we are seeing on the news are hitting many of our members very hard. This has also affected our weekly offering. We are not worried about this, but it does mean that moving to a new location is not possible at this time.
The plan of our leadership is to continue where we are for 3-6 months, and reevaluate our options. Until then, we are going to do everything we can to make our church successful at our current location. As Nathan told me the other day, it won't be long until we need to move to two services, as we have grown so much! And we have some events planned over the holidays that I think will draw a lot of attention to our church.
I see this as a positive thing, and many made positive statements at our meeting. Our leadership is going to be following up with everyone to get those lists of personal contacts to invite. Be thinking that direction, if you would!
Thanks!
Jason
Just a reminder that we had a meeting yesterday (Oct 26) to update everyone on our planned move. For those of you who could not be there yesterday, here is the information we shared.
A few months ago our church voted unanimously to change our budget and to move to this new location across the street. Our budget is working for us and that has proven to be a good change. As far at the move goes, we had made an arrangement with the owner's contractor to pull the permits for us and we would do the necessary labor to make the building workable for us. At first this seemed extremely reasonable, as our doing the work would make the price for the units very nice for us.
Over the following weeks we took the steps necessary. We had drawings made and presented them to the owner's contractor. This is when the contractor told us that he could NOT pull the permits for us to do the work, even though that had been our agreement. At that point there was little we could do other than find a contractor who would help us.
We talked to several people, and finally found the necessary licensed commercial contractor. He gave us a price of around $12,000 to do the necessary labor. He explained that the tasks we thought would be fairly simple were actually going to be pretty difficult.
Unfortunately, right now that kind of cost is beyond our church's means. Beside this, the economical struggles we are seeing on the news are hitting many of our members very hard. This has also affected our weekly offering. We are not worried about this, but it does mean that moving to a new location is not possible at this time.
The plan of our leadership is to continue where we are for 3-6 months, and reevaluate our options. Until then, we are going to do everything we can to make our church successful at our current location. As Nathan told me the other day, it won't be long until we need to move to two services, as we have grown so much! And we have some events planned over the holidays that I think will draw a lot of attention to our church.
I see this as a positive thing, and many made positive statements at our meeting. Our leadership is going to be following up with everyone to get those lists of personal contacts to invite. Be thinking that direction, if you would!
Thanks!
Jason
Friday, October 24, 2008
Retreat
The retreat is FULL, as of right now. If you would like to be placed on a "waiting list" in case someone who has already signed up can't go after all, just let me know. I'll be working on an official sign up sheet and collecting deposits, so I can forward to Mountain Vista to hold our weekend. I also need a consensus of which of the last two weekends of April work better for those who have signed up. Here is the web addres of the facility where we will be going http://www.mountainvistalogcabins.com/brick_chalet.html .
Looking forward to a great weekend of renewal and refreshment.
Patti
Looking forward to a great weekend of renewal and refreshment.
Patti
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