Life has been pretty crazy the last few months with adjusting to having a baby at home again. Alongside that big change, there has been another big event taking place in the life of our church plant - we found and began renting our own space! It was an incredible provision from God, truly miraculous, and we are so incredibly thankful. Most church plants here can go years, even decades, without having their own worship space, so we were shocked to have this door open for us so soon. This "re-birth" of the church coincided with Penny's birth pretty closely, so we'll always know and remember when God answered this prayer! The rental agreement for the church building was signed the week Penny was born and in early January, we began paying rent and renovating the space.
Nate has been hard at work, along with other leaders and church members (including members of the Macedonian Church we'll be sharing the building with) to renovate the space. It's truly a total overhaul, including the following:
- New floors and trim
- Turning a small empty room into a women's bathroom
- Adding a urinal and removing a shower from another bathroom (to create a men's room)
- Tearing down and rebuilding a wall
- Closing up a large window
- Adding electric blinds to several large windows on the sun-facing side of the building
- Adding in lots of wiring for lighting and sound, then spackling and painting the walls
It's been an exhausting process but so exciting to watch the space transform! Here is what the space looked like when we first saw it last October:
