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Re: We got a Church building
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Originally Posted by randyabrown
I'll bet it's nice! I'll also bet you have more people than we do. We have about a dozen (but just getting started). Do you have pics or a website?
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What is so great about your situation is that with God blessing you with such a great deal on rent you will be under much less pressure than you would be if you were having to make a big payment every month. That will make it easier to concentrate on outreach.
Every situation is different and of course to a degree the size of churches is limited by the density of population around them but by the time you outgrow that building you will be able to afford whatever you will need at that time.
Our church was birthed 7 years ago (I have been there about 5 years). It started with a literal handful of people. Five years ago when I became a part of it we ran about 200 people. Three years ago we had grown to 400-450 so had to move from the downtown building that had once been a small grocery store (seated 150 and we had three Sunday services). We leased part of a 112 year old factory and renovated it. First Sunday had 713 and I don't think we ever ran below 600 after the move. The current sanctuary seats about 650 but next Sunday will be our first Sunday in the space on the other side of our building we have leased and it will seat 1200-1500 eventually (starting with about 1,000 seats). We have four services (two on Saturday evening and two on Sunday morning) and run about 2,000 people.
www.experiencecc.com
Not a traditional Pentecostal church but we do baptize in Jesus name and believe in the gifts of the Spirit.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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Re: We got a Church building
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