I'm looking forward to our first Church Gate open day this Saturday (8th June). This will be a great opportunity for Welcome Church people to look around our new building and see the size of the challenge that we've taken on - before it becomes a building site!
If you haven't booked a slot yet, you can do so on this link here. There are further opportunities on the evening of Monday 10th June (click here) and the morning of Saturday 15th June (click here).
Why should I bother to come to an open day?
Although it might be tempting to sit back and wait for the work to be done (as someone said, "I'll see it when it's finished" ...) I would love as many of us as possible to make the effort to see the new building as it is right now.
Despite all of us having busy diaries, there are several reasons for this:
1. Ownership: we need to own this project together as a church, and to do that we do need to actually come and see what's going on - it's OUR building.
2. Prayer: we all need to be praying for this project and for those leading it, and a visit will help to inform our prayers.
3. Insight: we would love to hear from you after you've visited. What is important to you about this project? What is God saying to you prophetically? Do you have any wisdom to impart to the team? ("Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed" - Proverbs 15v22)
4. Inspiration: we would love people to get inspired for what we're doing together. Let's get inspired about our social action, inspired about our kids work and inspired about our youth work. Perhaps God may even have a role for you to play that you don't yet know about!
Gift Days
Lastly, let me please remind you that we have our next two Gift Days for Church Gate scheduled for Sunday 30th June and Sunday 7th July.
Our goal is two raise at least £2m over 2 years. We're well on the way towards that target (£1.3m pledged/given so far) but let's all be praying about what God is calling us to give this time round. We don't want anyone to give more than God is calling them to, but we don't want anyone to give less than He's asking them to either.
Let's all get involved in this Church Gate adventure that God is leading us into as a church.
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