Some tidbits from the recent meeting of the Coordinating Council:
*one year ago our note on the Welcome Center addition (and other renovations of Calvary) stood at about $1,000,000.00. As of Sunday, it was down to $656,000.00! That is excellent. Some of that drop is from the Numbers 449 campaign. Some is from the budgeted principle we pay each quarter. Some is from fulfilled pledges dating back to Fall 2009. I do not think that we will pay the debt off in 2012, as this timeline might suggest. However, we are well on our way. Thanks be to God.
*we had a number of children go to Passport Camp in late July. While there, I am told, some members and chaperones of other Baptist churches asked Calvary adults how we did it. They wanted to know how we as a primarily middle to upper middle class Caucasian church had incorporated such a diverse demographic of children into our church. These churches had the heart to do this but had not succeeded. How did we do it? I don't know the response that serve as an adequate answer. I think we struggle with whether we have done it or not. It may look like a finished process to others but does not appear so to one on the inside. However, sometimes as one on the inside, we don't see the totality of the road travelled but only the distance that still lies in front of us. We have come a long way. We have further to go. God has remained faithful to this point and we trust in that steadfastness tomorrow and beyond.
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