Sanctuary Building Committee Update – June 2007
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." Proverbs 3:5-6
This has become my personal anthem on the heels of Pastor Bill’s announcement. I had heard these scripture words sung loudly by Bethel’s kids at Cross Trainers. I must have heard a pastor preach on this subject from the pulpit. Surely I had read it in the Bible. Until now, I never understood these words so well and I would pray that each and every one of you adopt them as God’s answer to concerns about our building project.
There has to be some of you thinking “How can we approach a new building project when we don’t have a Pastor?” For a brief moment, I too thought the same thing. I realized that I was thinking like Doug the husband, father and worrier; not like Doug the Elder, brother and member of an amazing church family that is blessed by God. God placed the building project in front of us just as he placed the desire for Pastor Bill to accept a new call and ministry. We should view both with excitement and with confidence. God will not lead us to failure just as he will not lead Bill’s new ministry to failure. How do I know this? Read the scripture above…get the picture?
In the near future the Building Committee will make a formal letter of recommendation to the Session and Trustees. The letter will offer who our committee has picked to design, facilitate and manage the construction of a new Bethel Church. We will also be asking that we be allowed to move forward with Phase I of the construction project so that we have a shared vision of what God has in store for us.
In God’s Love,
Doug Montgomery
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