Our First Sunday in the New Building

Sunday, February 5, 2006 was an exciting day for Messiah Baptist Fellowship as we held our first services in the new building at 1308 Robins Avenue in Salisbury.

While there is still some uncertainty about the building situation, it was great to be able to get into the building and have our Sunday services and a Fellowship Lunch at the building.

For the morning service, we had a men's quartet and we spent some time examining the concept of God's timing. In particular, we noted that God's timing is Perfect, Purposeful, and Powerful.

The Fellowship Lunch and the afternoon service was a good time together as we looked at the concept of God's Goodness (yes, I actually took a detour from our Sunday Night series on Colossians this week) and then celebrated the Lord's Table.

An Update on our Building Situation

As many of you reading this probably know, yesterday, Feb. 1, 2006 was scheduled to be the date in which Messiah Baptist Fellowship officially closed on a new building for our church.

While I do not want to go into a full discussion of the situation in this public of a forum, I do request that you continue to pray for us and the building situation as we have run into a "glitch" in the process.

I still believe that God wants us to have this building and that everything will work out, but the events of the last couple of days have served to remind us all that we need to continue to seriously pray about this situation (and I know that many of you are already doing so).

The short version is that the church we are buying the building from ran into some difficulty in the process of buying the building that they are buying, and as the successful purchase of that property by them is a contingency on our contract to buy their current building, this places us in a holding pattern until things are worked out. Please pray for them that they will be able to get everything worked out, and for us that we will have wisdom as we wait and that the deal will ultimately be consumated.

We will still be holding services in the new building starting THIS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, but we will be doing so as a "guest" of the selling church rather than as "owners" of the building.

In Christ,

Pastor Frank Sansone