On Our Way To Crazy

Phew, you guys. I am wiped the heck out. We built a church in four days, and I’m not gonna lie, that is some hard work.

Our church has spent its whole five and a half years in an elementary school cafeteria and gym, loading and unloading trailers full of folding chairs and sound equipment and craft supplies and makeshift walls. It is a lot of freaking work, y’all. Every Saturday morning we would meet at the school at 8:30 am to set everything up, and every Sunday afternoon we would tear it all down and pack it into trailers and pull it away so, you know, the kids could have lunch and recess the next day.

And it was all working out pretty well. But last summer, the school board made it pretty difficult for us to continue using the school building. It just couldn’t fit our needs anymore. So we kicked the building project into high gear. It has been crazy stressful and overwhelming and the youth building is not complete and that makes me tired and bummed out. But we made it happen! And it is great.

Due to last-minute issues with codes and inspections and sewer lines, we weren’t able to move into the building until the Thursday morning before our first Sunday. We hit that place running, and didn’t really stop until we made it through Easter services yesterday. We unwrapped chairs and build sound panels and decorated children’s classrooms and assembled coffee machines and filled the baptistry and vacuumed and vacuumed and vacuumed. I have never been so tired in all my life.

But to get to have church, and then just go have lunch without having to put the church back in it’s box? And to have a place that is totally ours, where we can clean on a Tuesday morning or have a meeting after church on Sunday? It’s pretty freaking awesome.