Eagle Brook Church Blog

Blaine

We don’t get a chance to talk about all the details of our next steps as a church on the weekends, so I thought I’d send a quick note to let you know what’s happening with our hopes to start sites in Blaine and Woodbury.

This last weekend was a Business meeting in which the purchase and development of the Blaine project was approved by the church.  There was also agreement by the members to purchase some land in Woodbury.  These opportunities are of course only possible because of your commitment to the “Not Without You” campaign.  So…sites 4 and 5, here we come.

Activity for the Blaine project is already in an accelerated gear.  We have hired a Campus Pastor (which will be announced later) and other staff are starting to be assigned to this location.  The Blaine staff and volunteers are going to begin leading 2 temporary Sunday evening services at the SLP campus at 4:05 and 6:05 beginning on February 28. Those who wish to serve as Blaine volunteers must complete a serving interest form <http://www.eaglebrookchurch.com/pages/page.asp?page_id=61943>  and check the box marked “Blaine.”  The Sunday evening services will be available until the Blaine campus opens (which we anticipate to be sometime in the fall of 2010).  The Sunday evening services will be a full Eagle Brook weekend experience with live worship, Café 5000, Beyond Books, Kid-O-Deo, Club K-Rock, and the current weekend message (recorded earlier that day).

We’re asking those who plan to attend Blaine when it opens, as well as a few hundred people who already attend SLP and plan to continue staying there, to make a Sunday evening service their primary choice for weekend worship. This will make seats available for SLP guests in the regularly scheduled weekend services.  For those of you who have never gotten to SLP, you might want to know that they are experiencing tremendous growth there with over 600-650 people coming reguarly to the 11:00AM service.  The SLP Worship Center seats 540, so they moved to using a small building that’s on their property called the “Corner House” which seats about 100 comfortably as an overflow.  Sometimes the teaching Pastor will reference the Corner House in the beginning of their message.

Pretty exciting to see what’s happening around the church.  Continue to pray for Blaine, Woodbury and other next steps as we seek to reach many for His sake.

See you this weekend, 

PS – This weekend is communion weekend so come prepared to spend some time at the Lord’s Table at the end of our hour together.