Great Weekend!
This past week was the district conference for the Northern California district of the Brethren Church. It was great. My pastor, Rickey Bolden, from New Community Church in LaGrange, GA was our speaker. He did a great job of motivating our congregations and encouraging us in our evangelistic efforts. For our church, he challenged us to not wait on our building revitalization efforts. He was successful in coordinating churches to help us with our building project and giving us the confidence to complete it in 6 months. Our goal is to finish it by the end of October so we can celebrate the completion of the project and reintroduce ourselves to the community. What was great was that we had people who had not pledged toward our building project turn in pledge cards!
Even more exciting was that we had people volunteer their gifts toward making our church better. One guy volunteered to help us organize our efforts to connect people as they come into our church community. I am excited to see how we get ourselves organized as we help people connect with God and our community. Thanks to all of you who helped make our weekend so great. Please stay motivated about what God is doing in our community!

