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Hey Everyone -

Well, I’ve just come out of a long, hard nap this afternoon – the official “first weekend” of SSCC in our new facility is now “in the books”. All I can say is “WOW”. It was amazing. If there is ANY PROBLEM, it was simply that we had more people than we could handle. If all those folks were “1-timers” to check out the new place, we may .. MAY .. be OK .. otherwise, we just didn’t build it big enough.

Although the sanctuary will seat around 1,000 chairs, we put out around 850 seats … both the 8:45 service and the 11:00 service were at capacity … maybe a few scattered chairs here and there, but at least 95-99% full, from my vantage point on the stage.

KidJam – it started about 10+ minutes late because of the CROWD of families lined up all the way down the hall and INTO the atrium pressing in to get a seat. It was standing room only … and then, only if you were skinny enough to squeeze in. I stood in the doorway and searched for Joy and the kids and never found them … they were on the front row. Joy said it was amazing – and she just couldn’t get over how incredibly professional everything was.

Parking was a huge issue – and the “buzz” around the building all morning was “shuttles, renting parking space at the shopping center down the street”, etc.

I was amazed listening to the people coming out of “Tiny Town” – I think there were like 30 kids in the 1st grade  classroom alone. HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of kids. Probably 1500-1600 adults. Combined, I’d say we easily had well over 2,000 people this morning.

So much to say, so much to show, but for now, I’ve gotta play catchup on some other things. Pastor David (blog) graciously told us we could take tomorrow (Monday) off if we felt like we needed some downtime … but to come ready to “hit the ground running” on Tuesday.

I hope to do a video worship confessional … maybe I’ll find some time to slip up there Monday and do it. Chris and other photographers took tons of pics this weekend, and Jay and Brooke were gracious enough to volunteer to roam around taking video footage ..maybe we’ll get some of that online, though I wonder how any of them would find the time!

Until then, thanks for praying .. it was an AMAZING weekend!

For the Kingdom,
Fred