Well Sunday was an awesome day of worship with our life group at the Nymark's beautiful and spacious home. They are such generous God loving folks and we have grown to love them dearly ; as a matter of fact they will become our neighbors in the mountain after purchasing land just down the driveway from us. There were probably 40 plus folks there throughout the mornings some came for worship via telecast and some came to honor Scotty and Amy our campus pastor and wife who are leaving the church for the mission field. They have been such great leaders and mentors for the past 4 years; but we have great news despite the Covid shutting down the college and thus our church where we met on Sundays using their facilities.
The great news is we have found a church facility that is selling their beautiful buildings and nearly 5 acres in the heart of Seminole for a very reasonable price. We had a meeting there last night and checked out the place and it will fit our needs and is on a major 4 lane highway. Unbelievable and of course most all of us are thrilled about the building and the possibility of having a full service church i.e. classes for youths, kitchen, etc. and of course that would mean no setting up each week which is a big plus in getting volunteers at 5'ish to do this weekly chore.
We ate a breakfast that everyone brought to share just before the 9 Am service started and then stayed around for some finger food to honor Scotty and his 4 years as our campus pastor. It was going on 1 PM before we got back to the house and chilled for a couple hours. I hand watered the gardens and the new seedlings. One large tomato plant isn't doing well and I'm perplexed as to why but the rest are doing fine as of now. We are in for some windy weather and rain from this hopefully last storm of the season as it makes its way up through Florida this week. I believe its will be a a tropical storm instead of a full fledged hurricane. We could actually use some rain.
Betsy and Gus came by for a couple hours to pick up the last of the several dozen cookies Nancy made for the shower on Saturday. I managed to NOT eat one of my fav's oatmeal with raisins and it was hard to do. I'm down a couple pounds from the 15 pounds I gained this summer. I'm trying to cut back on my food amount and of course the sugars.
I'm pumped about the chance to purchase this building for Bridgepoint but of course there are always naysayers in the crowd so we will just let them go their way, but as for me I'm in on the purchase. Its a beautiful facility with plenty of parking and a couple extra buildings; one is already in use for some special needs kids and of course they have parents which need to hear the gospel. If all of our regular attendees come back we will have a full building in no time as we were regularly having around 400 between both services on Sundays. Now we can have weekly classes and events.
I tuned into the Bucs vs Saints game in Tampa and it was a blow out for the Saints in the first half. I decided to hit the sack instead of watching such a poor performance by the Bucs despite Brady at QB. The defense was horrible and Brees was on the mark with his passes, LATER
