Tenders now in!

Afternoon all, hope you're all having a fine afternoon.

So the Tenders are back in and we're really encouraged with the quotes. They're better then expected but i can't publish the figures until they've been validated. But the main thing is that we are seeing God's hand in this all the way and if God is for this - who can stand against it?!

This morning we went to The Avenue Methodist Church to check out the facilities and work out how it will look running our Sunday services there in the evening. If all goes to plan and the money comes in, we'd look at moving in there on from 3rd July onwards (thats only 13 Sundays away!!)

Moving on now, Gods been speaking to me about the impact we want to make on the community around us. I've been reading 'The Church that never sleeps' by Matthew Barnett, telling the story of a 24 hour church in LA that serves the community by meeting and supporting the needs  - a book i recommend reading. It's challenged me to start thinking move about how we're going to impact our city and how the building can be used to meet the needs of people in South Manchester. I suppose this is two fold because this can happen directly by inviting people in but also to equip leaders in order to send them out across Manchester to fulfill our mission statement:

'' to be a large city-wide church transforming lives and communities with the life and presence of Jesus Christ ''