On Sunday we announced that after much prayer the staff and I have determined it’s time for RidgePoint Church to sell our building and relocate. Beginning this Easter we’ll meet in the Fine Arts Auditorium of Auburndale High School. Between now and then we’ll need to buy quite a bit of equipment that’s specially geared for churches that meet in portable locations. There are also about a thousand other things that need to happen, and since I’ve already had people ask what we needed them to do I thought I’d make a short list of what’s needed so far…
Pray. We need wisdom for our staff as we determine what equipment we need and how much of ours we can reuse. While this is going on our trustees are in the process of selling our facility, which as you can imagine is a daunting task. There are literally hundreds of details that need to be ironed out, but they’re on top of things and I’m confident it’ll sell to the right people at the right time for the right price. Pray for wisdom and for God’s will to be done in this entire process.
Serve. As attendance in all areas continues to grow weekly, we could use some more kid’s ministry workers (Elementary-age & preschool). And when we go portable it’ll open up a whole new service opportunity: setup & breakdown teams. PCI is estimating we’ll need at least 4 teams of 8 people each to rotate setting up before services and breaking down after. For those of you who are numerically challenged, that’s 32 people. Oh, and the PCI consultant told me yesterday that during setup nothing gets carried – everything rolls – so it’s designed for women to be able to participate also. Bottom line – if you’d like to help let me or JJ know.
Give. As I said, we’ll need about $100K at the end of January to place our equipment order. This is very doable, but we’ll all have to give to make it work. And while some are able to give more than others, we can all sacrifice something. Not equal amounts, but equal sacrifice. There’s also the major matter of building some homes in Honduras, which we’ve pledged to do while we’re doing this. And this is above and beyond our regular giving, ’cause we’ll still get an electric bill and insurance bill this month 
I know that as the process moves forward there will be a lot more things for you to do, but if you’d like to help right now this is what we need. I’m pumped, and I hope you are too. Circle the date, because in 117 days we’re going in!!
