Summer is over. I, for one, am glad. I look forward to this years cooler weather. Several things have happened over the summer in case you missed it. One, the Creative Arts area was finished and we have a first class facility for teaching the arts. Second, the Children's area is completed and the "FUN FACTORY" is up and running. The new computer check-in system is really cool and the parents are enjoying it. Third, we are changing a little in the office area making a larger space for Laura as she has become the "Dumping Area" (in a good way) for several ministries, including MY "Stuff".

Sharon, our financial administrator, has worked very hard to secure for us a refinancing rate of our debt at 3.9%. We will be able to work with a local institution, Center State Bank. This will save us thousands of dollars a year. The rate we were first quoted by another out of state institution was at 6% or more.

Thank you for the kind comments about our last series on choices we make that heal us. Don't you wish you knew thirty years ago what you know now? But God in His sovereignty didn't intend for us to "GET IT" that way. As I told you in one of those sermons: "Every man or woman that God has used in a great way for His purpose and glory, walked with a limp". In other words, they had something in their life that kept them trusting the Lord in a way that they would not have otherwise. That has been true for me.

Keep being faithful. He is coming again!

Pastor Lloyd