Cross Planting ceremony

About 2 1/2 weeks ago (I know, I'm so behind...better late than never? Maybe?) our church (click the link for our website) had what we called Cross Planting Sunday. We've bought some land and are finally ready to start doing something on this land. So, in order to kick things off, we started our service on Sunday Sept 14 at our usual meeting place, a local high school auditorium, with a video that included stories from people in our church and then a 3D video flythrough of the exterior, lobby and auditorium of the building we'll be putting on the property. The elementary aged kids, led by some high schoolers, started the service with an upbeat song that they did some choreographed actions with. These snaps don't really capture what they did, but you can see all of our girls anyway.

After the service, everyone drove down to our new land, which is adjacent to the interstate that runs north-south through our valley. We had a large tent set up there, and during part of that service we took the cross that had been on top of our former building and planted it on this new property, kind of "staking our ground" for all that the Lord has in store for us, not just a building, but all that He's doing in our congregation as we work to get this built.

It was a very moving, inspirational day in the life of our church, and there's a lot I could say about it, but some friends of ours from church have their own blog, and what she wrote about that day capsulizes the event perfectly. Click here to see what they had to say.

Being a "portable" church as we are now can be draining, but days like our Cross Planting are injections of excitement that keep us going.