First gathering in our new location...

So we had this grand plan to have an amazing "housewarming" gathering in our new location. It was going to be so cool to see people look around the room and see it all finished out. They would finally believe all the great things we were saying about how awesome our new location was going to be.

Rewind to a few days before this first gathering...The leaders and Elders get a call from Danielle informing us of how the construction on the interior of the new space is far from being done. "WHAT?", we were baffled. "But is HAS to be done, it is our first gathering, we even had fancy postcards printed," were our comments to this bad news. We thought it was hopeless.

So now we were left with trying to decide if we go forward with meeting in an actual construction site or find somewhere else to meet. (hint, we ended up meeting in the space, dust and all).

I think I can speak for all of us there, we are very excited about this new location and new season for Journey. Despite the place being unfinished and the fact that we had to sit on a hard concrete floor (complete with a fresh sprinkling of dust from the walls being sanded) our original goal was met. I think it was even more meaningful in this unfinished state. People got to walk around to see how cool the room will be. And there was this feeling of excitement in the air for what is next. Which hopefully includes finishing the construction.