What a weekend we just had!

These last few days have been a trip! We moved everything out of our former building, stored it in multiple people’s homes and garages, planned, prepared for and orchestrated a beautiful wedding, set up lots of equipment at John Glenn High School, had an incredible communal experience with God on Sunday, and tore down all the equipment we set up.

Now we’re getting ready for this coming Sunday, and we know God will have some new goodies for us! He always does

I could go on all day about how happy I am with this new direction God is leading us, but I’d really love to hear from you!

So, Ekklesians, what are your thoughts and reactions to this John Glenn journey Jesus is taking us on?

Feel free to answer any of the following questions, or answer however you want:

What do you like best? What has God been saying to you? How do you see this helping you to better accomplish your life’s purpose, “Be disciples. Make disciples.”?

Ekklesia launched publically on Super Bowl Sunday, February 3rd, 2008. We started in a Livonia shopping mall, and ended up in a Westland “church” building. Since day one we’ve enjoyed doing ministry in the marketplace, especially since most of the people we reach have had bad experiences with church.

We’re really good at working with the church haters… people who aren’t currently following Jesus… the kind of people who see a “church” building and say to themselves, “The people inside that ‘outdated’ structure are lifeless, boring, judgmental hypocrites who want nothing more than to tell me when to sit down and when to stand up… they want to take my money, and sell me some kind of out of touch with reality spirituality that has nothing to do with my current life, or my future.”

That being said, we prefer to meet in atypical structures. We’ve been working toward purchasing retail space for quite some time now, and we’re getting closer and closer. However, before we get there, God is going to take us to John Glenn High School!

We are extremely excited about this opportunity, and we hope you are too. The auditorium is gorgeous. Superb acoustics! Also, working with the city of Westland has been an immense pleasure.

You’re invited to help us get ready for our grand opening! You can pray, get your hands dirty, join the setup/tear down team, partner financially, and/or participate in some other fashion. Our first Sunday service will be October 11th, and we will meet from 11:00-12:15.

Hope to see you then!!!