Wow folks, I appologize up front. My Blog has not been updated in a month. Sorry, lots to do, and lots to report I guess. First of all, we are trying to update our congregation to emerging status. This means, if we get 6 baptised and confirmed members we can have a recorder, Rachel and I can transfer our membership there, and if we have baptisms soon we can have them at Detroit Hope. Besides this, our building has been in disarray. We put up a basketball hoop that Jeff Stoker found a great deal on, and as soon as we did that, it seemed like the building was jealous or something because things started breaking one after another. Begining with our sanctuary lights. One Pizza church we had to worship in the dark. Crazy. Then since we have been becoming an emerging congregation, we have been looking at the place and setting up some priority projects to get things running so we can be emerging.

1. Give us Identity in the Community help us build a sign. Our old sign was hit by a truck before my time, and has been a presence that the church has been closed, because there is nothing for the adults to read and see. No amount of flyers telling people what time services are compares to the presence of a sign they walk by or drive past.

2. Help us fix our font, so we can have baptism of water, and confirmation of the spirit. Our font was in disrepair because at one time the churches that were renting the building here in detroit believed they should leave the font filled and baptisms would come to them. Congregations were small because they were not out reaching the community. Now, we have a font that needs re-surfaced and repaired to be able to sustain its first community of christ baptism in quite a few years.

3. Light our World at Detroit Hope (Sanctuary Lighting). Our lighting is a particularly interesting issue. One day, during a rain storm our lighting quit working. The lighting has not been workng since. Our solution is to replace the lighting because the old fixtures and light bulbs are getting too expensive for our building too.

4. Help our services be heard. With our growing number 48 last week at pizza church, we have constantly harder possibilities to be heard by the whole group, and voices of the youth keep getting smaller and smaller as there are more and more of the voices competeing. We are going to be working on getting a PA system back up and running to assist all those involved in the services at Detroit Hope.

We will have estimates of these projects soon. I wanted to tell you though, that these projects will be mission center giving opprotunities, locally.

Also for some of the asthetic projects, a mission trip from the south is coming up from Northwest Florida-Alabama Mission Center to help us. This is a great blessing. They will be here a week, and we will have pictures up after this next week. I look forward to telling you progress stories.

Here are pictures of our basketball hoop I mentioned earlier.