Vision Sunday

Yesterday was a pretty fun day. We've been working on plans for purchasing a facility, an old brick storefront in the heart of downtown Chaska. Yesterday we dedicated our whole church service to praying, talking, brainstorming, dreaming, and prophesying about where we're headed as a church. It was a wonderful time where the whole church came together with passion and excitement about where God is taking us.

The challenge is tremendous as the building costs $520,000 and our annual church budget is around $80,000. We spend our time primarily in trailer parks, low-income housing, and with strange-looking teenagers. These groups of people tend not to be able to generate funds for a capital campaign, so we're having to be creative in the fund-raising process. Our hope is that there will be a few people from outside our church who will catch the vision for a youth concert venue and a church who reaches the fringes of society and will be willing to support it financially.

The fun part of this whole adventure is that it is so far beyond anything that we have the capacity to accomplish. We are completely dependent upon God to provide all that we need. Being realistic about that in some ways takes the pressure off. That doesn't mean we're not going to work our tails off, but it does mean that no matter how hard we work, we're not going to accomplish this task unless God has his hand in it. So far, he seems to be leading us pretty clearly in this direction and we're hopeful and trusting that he will continue to guide us where he wants us to go.