Our church had a spectacular opening Sunday on the 27th. Our first service was about 75% capacity in the sanctuary, which holds about 700 people. For the second service, it was standing room only, not to mention all of the people spilling out into the foyer and the coffee shop. Altogether, we had something like 1200 people come to the church on Sunday with 200 kids in the children's area. Woo!
And in a fit of insanity, I had volunteered to help with parking. Here's a still shot of the parking lot from the far edge of the lot to show how many cars there were...
It was a bit packed. We had cars lined up all the way from the cul-de-sac at the end of 10th Line to the lights at Argentia at one point, but we managed to squeeze about 400 or so cars into a lot designed to hold about 300. It was nuts. 3.5 hours of nuts, to be precise, because that's how long I spent outside directing traffic that day! At least the weather was beautiful, though I got a pretty nasty sunburn for my troubles.
Hopefully the coming Sundays will be a little more... sane. We had a lot of visitors, special guests and curious people who likely won't be around on a regular basis, though it would be awesome to have this kind of turn out every week.
I'm just happy that we have a building to call home for the church now. It has been a long time coming and it's like the church is coming into its adolescence now (almost literally, what with the congregation being about 10 years old this coming September) so we have all sorts of new challenges and opportunities to look forward in this new phase of the church's life. Time to sit back and buckle in and enjoy the ride.
4 comments:
What is the name of this new church?
Sigh. I should have put it in there, shouldn't I? It's actually a church that has been around for 10 years, but we're just now meeting in our own building instead of renting schools.
Churchill Meadows Christian Church is the name, saving souls is our game. :)
Click on the link in the post for more info.
Sounds like an amazing church. Interesting about the 2 services and foyer with a cafe. Your church is larger per service (I think we have about 500-600 over 2 services max) but we are also planing on putting in a cafe/coffee area soon.
Very cool.
We'll see how the numbers stabilize over the next little while. We don't anticipate a turn out like we just had, but man, imagine if we sustained those numbers?
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