We signed the lease on our church building last week and we should officially move in mid-October. Now this is exciting for many reasons, but one of my top ones is no more set-up/tear-down. Audio equipment can remain on stage, kids toys/supplies can remain in their room, coffee supplies can remain set-up, and I can get to lunch before 1:30pm! The bad news is that you might like to sit somewhere when you come to church. So we have started encouraging people to donate to the building fund to purchase chairs. In the mean time, Carrie and I went garage saling (how do you spell that??) yesterday. And for those of you that know me well, I am not a good garage saler (see there it is again, how does one spell that?). I might as well have a sign around my neck that says "SUCKER". But I was good, I found a few game-boy games for my kids and a bowling pin and then we hit pay dirt. Wait, you want to know about the bowling pin? Doesn't everyone wish they had a bowling pin? Well, I have this area as you head down to the basement that I have tried to decorate with all sorts of games (old looking kind) and for some reason I got it in my head that it would look good with an old bowling pin as part of the display. Well, what do you know, there was a bowling pin for sale! And remove my SUCKER sign, because I only paid $1.Now for the pay dirt and the reason I started this story...we stopped at a church sale and they had 40 folding chairs, $1/piece. They aren't the prettiest things, but they're better than bean bag chairs or lawn chairs to start with!! And I think they are good to have as reserves. (Kind of like Heartland's black folding chairs - we were so thankful for them and so excited to get rid of them!)
Now, they do say, "Church of the Air" on them, and I have no clue what that means since we bought them at Billings Bible Church, but maybe they'll feel like you were sitting on air after and hour and a half - we can only hope!!! So if you're in town come October, stop in and have a seat!
