I've gotta tell you, I did not expect to be tallying points from a hotel room in west Texas, but here I am. Our graphics installation is taking longer than we anticipated and so our stay is being extended. I've never spent much time in this part of the country but it is fascinating. This town of Big Spring has gone from a booming stop between Dallas and El Paso Texas to a depressed ghost town when industry and a military base left in the 1980's. The population literally was cut by 50% almost overnight. But thanks to people like Clint and Kami Collins at Life Church, there seems to be new life coming back to this dusty town. Shadows of its hey day are beginning to come back.
Life Church purchased the old high school and is renovating it into a church campus.
The sanctuary will be in the old gymnasium (which was built after this photo was taken) and the transformation is almost complete. This week, the finishing touches will be put on the gym so that their first Sunday service can be held on July 6. We have designed HUGE graphics that will cover 3 entire walls with images and scripture that brings their vision to life. We've taken a ton of pictures of our progress, but I don't have any way to upload them until I get home. I can't wait to show you all what we're working on!
Here's a photo a friend took with her iphone.
One panel up, 47 to go...
In the meantime, Tom and G.T. (14) and I will be working 12-14 hour days to try and get this all done before the grand opening. One slight snag in our plan could be that there are no hotel rooms available after tonight....and we don't know where we will be staying. Would you mind saying a prayer that we will find something without traveling an hour down the road to Midland every night? At the end of a long day, we're pooped and need REST.
Now, enough chit chat! It's time to talk about point tallies for the month of June. I'm astounded that we've gone through 6 months of Small Things already. I'll admit that I'm not as organized as I'd like to be yet, but I love the way getting a Small Thing done each day just buoys my spirits! YES! I'm NOT a loser! I'm making progress every day and it's just wonderful to have you girls along with me. Thank you so much for being a part of my life and for the encouragement you give me to keep pressing on.
Today's Small Thing is a TWO-STEP process:
1. Email me your point tally privately. My link is in the upper left hand corner of this site. Even if you aren't keeping track of points but you've participated at least 5 times, go ahead and email me so I can enter you in the random drawing.l
2. Leave a comment letting us know what your favorite Small Thing was or how doing them is helping you create your own Home Sanctuary. I love to hear what you enjoyed the most and it get my little brain a-working toward more fun things in the future. And I want anyone who is just thinking about joining in to be encouraged to go ahead and take the plunge!
POINTS: 30 points for the two steps, to go toward your May score.
PS If you had trouble accessing my site this month and weren't able to do the Small Things on the assigned days but caught up somewhere along the way, go ahead and count those points.
PPS If you are a new Company Girl and haven't gotten an email from me, please forgive my slowness. This crazy project is really crimping my blogging/emailing style and I am SOOOO behind. Please consider yourself a Company Girl, put the button on your blog if you have one and start earning you some points!
