Despite my best efforts, I'm not getting to the 'new post' page nearly as often as I'd like. So a little bit of catching up...
This was the first real week of moving stuff from our current church building, where we've been since 2003, to the new building ...a 50-year-old retired high school. We cleaned out the attic storage, some closets, the high bay construction area...anything that isn't going to be actively needed for ministry in the next three months. We have to be out of the building...which has been sold to a church who has been setting up and tearing down in a local high school every week and is READY to have a building...on Feb 1. But our new sanctuary won't be ready until May. So we'll add an extra service and have four every Sunday in the theater...which is only about 17 years old and in great shape but only seats 750.
The decision has just been made to move the offices on December 15, so we can have a decent Christmas rest and then spend January basically cleaning out the rest of the building. I've no idea what that last service is going to look like. It's going to be bittersweet but we outgrew that building, like, three times and just kept making extension campuses to hold the overflow.
So I'll be packing up my office pretty soon...bringing home my personal stuff and generally getting the rest ready to haul.
Because that first bit of December is kind of up in the air for us.
My Sweet Babboo has had some off and on health issues for a very long time. For the last year, it's been more on than off and he finally got sent to a specialist who did a CT scan and found a bronciogenic (the spell check doesn't recognize that and I'm too lazy to google it again; the spelling's close) cyst between his windpipe and the upper lobe of his right lung. It's a birth defect. He's had it his whole life...which could be the explanation for a lot of things. The cyst itself is not a dangerous thing, but they can grow/turn into other stuff so the medical protocol is to remove them. But it's too deep for laparoscopic surgery so...full on cut-through-back-muscles surgery that the dr says will have him in the hospital for threeish days and out of work for likely a month, although he can work from home as he feels up to it. That will be just before Thanksgiving. I'll likely be working from home as well, just to be around if needed for the first couple of weeks or so. So I'm not sure how much packing I dare leave until after the surgery. Or how much Christmas shopping. Or any other thing that requires time and attention.
Needless to say, our plans to travel to Indiana for Christmas have changed, although the kids might still make the trip to spend the holiday with their grandparents. So anyway you look at it, this is going to be a ...unique...holiday season.
Gonna be tough to get everything in the Annual Christmas Epistle, I think...
'Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness...the LORD is good to those whose hope is in him...' -- Lamentations 3:21-23, 25a NIV84
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