Excited to be at FBC Sweetwater
Yesterday after our morning service we had a business meeting which presented a wonderful opportunity for our church. Over the past few months we have been working towards a renovation project of the old sanctuary building which was built in 1924. This renovation will be very extensive and costly. We will basically have to gut the building and start over. As a staff and church we realized that this is a difficult time to be building, but the condition of our building was a definite hinderance to moving forward as a church.
Over time churches can easily fall into the trap of looking only at where they have been and where they are; especially churches that have been in existence for many decades. The tendency is to remember the most successful days of the past and wish that they were happening in the present. Many times, because of tradition and habit a church will stop looking forward. Unfortunately, when a church stops looking forward the future will not look bright. If a church does not plan to be active and alive ten years down the road, the chances are they won’t.
First Baptist Church in Sweetwater, TX took a huge step yesterday and began a plan to ensure being an effective tool in God’s Kingdom for years to come. We will not be effective because we will have a new building, but because we are trusting God and following his lead. God will honor our faithfulness to him and I know God has plans to use our church to reach the Sweetwater community. I could not be more proud of our church and their willingness to not only seek God’s will today but also to look to the future at what God will do. Please pray for our church as we seek God’s will in all we do.
