Another day...

This is another day in the books and it was a good. First, we have added a new member to the office staff. Susan Robinson will join us on Monday as our newest Admin Assistant. Kay Fleet is cutting back her hours and Susan will be picking those hours up.

We are inching closer and closer to our September Revival. Pray, pray pray! The time for preparing is NOW!

The Long Range Planning Committee is very close to formally identifying the General Contractor for the upstairs finish out. The completed project will add approximately 17 classrooms and space for 400 additional Bible Study spaces. That is great news! We hope to be in by next April or May.

We took a large step today when we signed a lease on a bill board. We needed something on Highway 29 to let people know we are here, and the billboard at Highway 29 and RR 1869 became available. We couldn't have picked a better location so we moved on it. We have to have the art work in by Monday and the bill board should be up by July 25th. We'll see...

Tim and I spent most of the day re-working and re-designing the new web site. We want to make sure it is working perfectly by the time the bill board is up. We are working on the information flow to make it as smooth and easy to use as possible. We are also designing Bible Study class pages so people can communicate and discuss lessons through a secure web site. This should be functional by August 1.

Finally, we signed a contract with Olan Mills photography yesterday to produce our church directory. They will take pictures of anyone and everyone who signs up. Everyone who gets their picture taken will get a free 8x10 photograph and a free church directory. There is absolutely no cost whatsoever to you or the church for the photography, the 8x10 or the directory. They are even setting up a secure online directory that will be available to church members. Olan Mills does this free of charge because they hope many of us will want to by picture packages (besides the free 8x10) from them and this is how they make their money. We have done this before and were very pleased with the results. We used the pictures as Christmas gifts one year and will do that again this year.

As I read back over this, we got a lot done and its only Tuesday. God is Good!

Blessings,

Michael