I have two church stories tonight; one funny and one serious. The funny one happened this morning as we were leaving the 11:00 service. Our pastor is named Phil and he greets everyone in the narthex on their way out each Sunday. Today as we were approaching him, he had just taken his ministerial robe off and laid it on a nearby couch. One of his sons picked it up and put it on while he wasn’t looking. As we got up to him, my wonderful Thomas exclaimed: Mr. Phil! That person is wearing your dress!
The serious story is that we had a congregational meeting tonight to approve the construction of a 4 million dollar addition to the church. We desperately need this space as we are squashed on top of each other as it is. The plan, called the “Vision Plan”, will give us several new class rooms, a multi-purpose area (a gym) that can seat 900, a professional kitchen, several hundred new parking spaces a new ball field and a new playground for the youngsters. This truly is going to be a wonderful addition. We have secured approval from the city of Grayson, and are now awaiting approval from Gwinnett County. With any luck we should get the county approval in 4 – 6 weeks and can begin construction immediately thereafter. Construction should be complete within a year. The vote was 138 aye, 0 nay with 4 abstaining.
