It’s not what it sounds like. (Although North Point does it every year between Christmas and New Year’s.) But a church in California is not going to worship this Sunday in their building… instead they are going to be meeting at many locations and sites to doing work projects throughout their community.
The seats at North Coast Church in Vista will be empty the weekend
of April 29, but members won’t exactly have the day off. The church,
which attracts about 6,500 people on weekends, is planning the largest
community-service event in its history, with participants painting,
landscaping, washing and rolling up their sleeves for various jobs at
54 sites throughout North County on April 28 and 29…
In all, congregants will tackle 92
major projects, including painting and landscaping Washington Middle
School in Vista and Claire Burgener Academy in Oceanside, with up to
200 people working at each site. Read the rest
What is so astonishing about this to me is that they will grow by doing it. I can here some people saying, "Yeah but Hebrews tells us to not give up meeting together." They aren’t. They are meeting in 92 locations to worship by doing stuff. Plus, today’s people are all about action and taking a stand to make their world better.
I love this on so many levels.
As a pastor at a small church I look at this and have two immediate reactions.
- We couldn’t ever do that. We’re not big enough, plus… how would we get the money?
- We could totally do that! We may be small but big miracles often come in small packages.
OK, back to Earth now. I’ll be watching this to see how it worked out.
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