by Justin Morton
It has finally started! After a lot of dreaming, planning, praying and waiting…construction began on our building expansion this past week. What an exciting time for Walter Hill! It seems like forever ago the elders and ministers were sitting down talking about what Walter Hill needed in terms of our current facility. While we still have a long way to go to get to the finished product, our remodeled facility will soon be a reality.
I hope you will continue praying and asking God to bless us every step of the way in this process. We want to use our facility to minister to those who need love and help (Philippians 2:3-4). We hope to fill it with many visitors and those who have never obeyed the gospel of Christ so they can learn about God’s wonderful plan of salvation and the hope we have through Christ Jesus (Romans 10:13-14). Most of all, we pray we witness countless people respond to God’s amazing grace and accept that wonderful free gift of salvation and then begin lives of service to the Lord (Romans 6:23).
This newly renovated auditorium and classroom space is not so we can beat our chest and say, “Look what we have done”. No, we want to proudly proclaim, “Look what God is doing!” Our goal in all of this, is not for the glory of men, but for the glory of God.
We live in a postmodern world that is filled with evil and sin. But God is still God and His Word still has the power to convict even the hardest of hearts. The Hebrew writer wrote, “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). In the midst of all the turmoil in our culture today, more and more people are looking for truth and for the Lord.
In the coming months, after much prayer and planning, our dream will become a reality. We will have a renovated facility that holds more people. But what will we do with this space? Will we just admire its beauty? Will we just come in and sit in our new “usual spots” as always? Will we boast about how much more space we have? Will we sit back and keep focused on ourselves? What will we do with all this “new” space?
I pray the answer to “what will we do with all this space” is this: I will consider who I can invite to help fill this big auditorium. Friends, the harvest is plentiful (Matthew 9:37) and we are going to have plenty of space. The question is “ What are we going to do about it?”