This blog will chronicle North Pointe Community Church's(formerly Central Tabernacle's) church family and their move into their future beginning with the breaking of ground at their new location on the southeast corner of 167 Avenue and 142 Street on May 2, 2005. It will be updated daily with text and pictures.
The address of our new church is:
14025 - 167 Avenue NW
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
T6V 1J5
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Parking
Well, thanks to these and other workers, our parking lot should look quite a bit different this Sunday. If you want to see how, just come and park before 10:00 am, wander into our new home, and enjoy our worship and service.
Well, we had a great day at North Pointe Community Church yesterday for our FIRST Sunday Service. It was gratifying to see so many people come and become a part of our journey and hear about the exciting things that North Pointe is already doing. We heard from our Youth Missions team and leaders and experienced FIRST hand some of the great things that our children experienced at our Fiesta Day Camp -- our FIRSTjoint venture with Gateway Alliance.
Pastor Bob's talk centered around this opening day and the opportunity to be a part of so many "FIRST"s. Take a look at the following five pictures and learn what we are doing to make this a great time in our new home:
Thursday Update: What a productive week! Unloading and unpacking 4 trailers has made for an unbelievable experience this week. The hearts of our tireless volunteers are truly appreciated - our staff in particular wish to thank those volunteers who helped setup and clean desks, cabinets, etc., and then helped with the filing after that! And thanks to the volunteers who brought nourishment in the form of coffee and homemade squares - we received confirmation that we do indeed have the best square-makers in town!
Now, on Friday at 1:00 p.m., the chairs for the sanctuary are arriving. We expect to be done by no later than 3:30 p.m. So, if you would like to help with that effort, then by all means, we would love to have you there.
Otherwise, remember to bring a friend on Sunday for our first service at North Pointe! Refreshments at 9:00 am, Service at 10:00 am.
What a great day. The North Pointe Team, volunteers and staff included, dug deep today to offload three (3) trailers. We started around 9:00 am, and ended about 8:30 pm. Thanks go out to everyone who participated in this large effort today.
Now, for tomorrow, we need volunteers throughout the day, but will be done and out of the building by 5:00 pm. So, there will be no volunteer assistance required in the evening tomorrow.
Keep checking for updates as we will keep bringing you the plan!
We need help! Tomorrow we begin offloading three trailers at our new home. If you can come and help, we will be there from 9 am - 9 pm. We will be continuing to work at North Pointe on Wednesday, also from 9 am - 9 pm. If you can come in for a couple of hours on either or both of those days, that would be great! Help us get our home set up for Sunday.
This Sunday is a very special Sunday, being the first in our new home. Though our meeting starts at 10:00 am, we hope you will come a bit early this week. We guarantee a warm welcome and a handshake as well as coffee, juice, drink boxes for the kids, and muffins for you to enjoy as you check out the new place. Join us as we learn from Pastor Bob's talk: "Here's the Pointe."
Our Fiesta Day Camp, run in conjunction with Gateway Alliance began today, and it was spirit-filled. Heather Yule, Barbara Farquhar and Jessica Ross, along with the other leaders in this camp, have done an incredible job to organize this week-long camp filled with activities for kids in grades 1 through 6. We can hardly wait to hear the stories from this camp of over 100 kids. Let these pictures inspire you:
Wow! 4 movers and truck really help get the job done! We are done for today and it is 12:00 noon. So, if you had planned to come help this afternoon and/or this evening, thank you so very much for your desire, but today go ahead and figure out a way to stay cool in this heat instead!
In the meantime, our next task is to unload the remaining three trailers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, July 11-13 from 10:00 am - 9:00 pm. We will be getting some assistance again from movers, but we still need all the help we can get, so if you can mark one, two or even all three days on your calendar, that would be GREAT!
What an awesome job North Pointe's team of volunteers and staff are doing - Go Team!!
See you Sunday for Part 2 of Pastor Bob's mini-series -- "The Theatre of Faith: Moving Experiences with God." Remember, it is Theatre # 7 at the Cineplex Odeon complex located at 137 Avenue and St. Albert Trail.
Well, last week was a productive week of sorting, packing and loading furniture, equipment, office files, etc., at our downtown Central Tabernacle location. Through extreme heat, but with great anticipation of the future to come, we loaded up three trailers and a fourth is to be loaded still - if you can help on Tuesday evening, please come to Central at 6:00 p.m. We anticipate being done no later than 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday we must unload one trailer at our new North Pointe home. We will be starting at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning and there will be movers helping us. If you can come in the morning, that would be great. If you are planning to come later in the day, please check this blog for updates -- once the trailer is offloaded and the work is complete for the day, we will put a notice on this site.
A huge thank you goes out from Pastor Bob and his team to all the volunteers who donated countless hours of time this past week, and who will be assisting us this week and next as we get ready to make our home in Northwest Edmonton.
