This Sunday will be a very special Sunday here at Grace Church as we officially dedicate our new Grace Café. We will have special times in each of our three morning worship services for this and then we will have an official “ribbon cutting” ceremony taking place in the café in between 2nd and 3rd services. Folks, listen, you are going to be blown away! This café is amazing. Along with everything else you imagine in a café, this also has a full sound-system, place for staging with special lighting, 4 large screen televisions and wi-fi throughout. WOW!
We are then looking to have our Grand Opening on Mother’s Day, May 9th. And because it is our Grand Opening and it is Mother’s Day – all coffee, tea and other beverages will be free. So over the next 2 Sundays be sure to go in and take a gander at one of the best looking cafes you will find anywhere around us.
I am very excited about how we believe God is going to use this part of our new facility. The main purpose, remember, is “connecting.” With 1500-1600 people coming to one of our three worship services here at Grace Church each and every Sunday, it is hard to connect with people on a Sunday morning. At best, we give a brief “hello” as we rub shoulders and pass each other in the lobby in between services. Now we will have a place big enough where hundreds of people all morning long can spend some time in order to have a cup of coffee or tea and get to know other folks who are also worshipping our great God here at Grace Church.
In the near future this will also give us a wonderful place for our Grace Student Ministries to have their weekly youth night each Wednesday. Our youth group has outgrown their present room and this will be the perfect place for them to meet and move teenagers for Jesus.
Starting in June, we also want to use our three summer months to plan a wee day morning each month when our Primetime Group (anyone over 55) can come together for a time of fellowship, prayer, some hymn-singing and a Bible Study. It is my desire to be the one to teach this Bible Study for our Primetime group so if you are over 55 be paying attention for these dates and details to soon be announced.
And then ultimately, we hope this can be a place that special events can happen in and which can be open at certain times so that parents who are bringing children here each weekday to Lititz Christian School and Morningstar Childcare can also take time to connect better with our church. We would love to one day also see our café open during certain hours in the week where people from the community can come as well, giving us more opportunity to connect with people.
We praise the Lord that we were able to pay for the majority of this facility expansion with cash. The portion that we did finance we did so on a 5-year note at a very low interest rate. But it is our prayer goal to see this facility paid off in just 3 years. Please keep that in mind because every dollar you give to our building fund takes us closer to paying off this debt early so that we can move forward on our next desired renovation which is to turn our present Young Wing and Chapel into a portion of our facility designed specifically to meet and move children.
We are then looking to have our Grand Opening on Mother’s Day, May 9th. And because it is our Grand Opening and it is Mother’s Day – all coffee, tea and other beverages will be free. So over the next 2 Sundays be sure to go in and take a gander at one of the best looking cafes you will find anywhere around us.
I am very excited about how we believe God is going to use this part of our new facility. The main purpose, remember, is “connecting.” With 1500-1600 people coming to one of our three worship services here at Grace Church each and every Sunday, it is hard to connect with people on a Sunday morning. At best, we give a brief “hello” as we rub shoulders and pass each other in the lobby in between services. Now we will have a place big enough where hundreds of people all morning long can spend some time in order to have a cup of coffee or tea and get to know other folks who are also worshipping our great God here at Grace Church.
In the near future this will also give us a wonderful place for our Grace Student Ministries to have their weekly youth night each Wednesday. Our youth group has outgrown their present room and this will be the perfect place for them to meet and move teenagers for Jesus.
Starting in June, we also want to use our three summer months to plan a wee day morning each month when our Primetime Group (anyone over 55) can come together for a time of fellowship, prayer, some hymn-singing and a Bible Study. It is my desire to be the one to teach this Bible Study for our Primetime group so if you are over 55 be paying attention for these dates and details to soon be announced.
And then ultimately, we hope this can be a place that special events can happen in and which can be open at certain times so that parents who are bringing children here each weekday to Lititz Christian School and Morningstar Childcare can also take time to connect better with our church. We would love to one day also see our café open during certain hours in the week where people from the community can come as well, giving us more opportunity to connect with people.
We praise the Lord that we were able to pay for the majority of this facility expansion with cash. The portion that we did finance we did so on a 5-year note at a very low interest rate. But it is our prayer goal to see this facility paid off in just 3 years. Please keep that in mind because every dollar you give to our building fund takes us closer to paying off this debt early so that we can move forward on our next desired renovation which is to turn our present Young Wing and Chapel into a portion of our facility designed specifically to meet and move children.
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