A Place to Call Home.
Jan 21st, 2008 by Gary Chupik
Wow! What a wild ride starting a church is! For the past 6 months we have been looking high and low for a place for our yet to be church to meet. We’ve tried everything from bars, taverns, and wineries, to commercial meeting spaces, schools, event halls and conference rooms. We’ve tried theaters, community centers to no avail. We’ve tried bribery, side door deals, and under the table transactions and nothing has worked. Having a place to gather is a rather important issue, you know.
But God…
Not even 24 hours before we were about to send out our first major mailer to the community, we got the OK to make plans to meet at the Northshore YMCA in Bothell! This fairly new facility is close enough for anyone in Woodinville or surrounding areas to come to. We are just one minute off the I-405 and it will be more than adequate for our first meetings! We will have use of the teen center, preschool and toddler room, Adventure Zone (looks like a McDonald’s playland) for elementary school age kids, lobby, kitchen, and family gymnasium! The amazing thing is that I had inquired before, but the site was unavailable!
So, just in time….just in the nick of time, God made a way. He seems to do that pretty often… I mean, wait till the last second. He likes to make us sweat. Why? Because he wants to remind us that it is not us, or our intellect, or savvy that brings about what he wants. He’s the God who loves to rescue. Does God have an ego? Of course he does! He selflessly desires our adoration. He longs to be the object of our desire. He’s passionate about us seeing life through his eyes.
So, for everyone out there, the Bothell YMCA is our new home! We will meet on Sunday nights at 6:30pm for about an hour on Sunday evenings beginning the Sunday after Easter. We will have a sneak-peak preview service on Sunday night, March 2nd at 6:30pm. Everyone (including families) welcome! Hope to see you there!
Hi Gary & Molly: Don’t know if you remember me I was in Molly’s F.G.B.I. cLass. Good to hear from you. Now we can more effectivly pray for you. God Bless keep us updated.Thanks!
Hey Cameron…Yes, I do remember you! I’m thrilled that you remember us and it would be great to keep in touch…if you’d like to be on our e-newsletter, I’d be happy to enroll you. Just send me your email address on the “contact” page and I’ll get it done. God bless you Cameron and I look forward to hearing from you! Gary
Hi Gary,
Shelley is showing me how to use the internet and we viewed your blog today. “We think is was so awsome to know how things have been going at your church and it’s great to see how well things are going for you and it is great to see how God is doing great things in your life through the church as well as ours, ” says Mom.
Mom has also shown us the pictures of your family and your new house on our t.v here at home (her camera card plugs right in to our t.v) so it has been a whole new world of learning in technology for Mom here this week. P.S They are snowed in today and we practically had a blizzard here on Anastasia’s 8th birthday yesterday.
“Her birthday was awsome,” says Mom. “Hi to Molly, Josiah, Zachary and Sarah we miss you and God Bless and have a great day,” said Mom. Keep in touch Gary glad to see the amazing things happening at Emaus may God continue to richly bless you.
Shelley and Mom