Well, I've got a little catching up to do and a lot of pictures to share. I had a hard time limiting it to the ones I'll put up here. I started out Tuesday morning from Dayton and rode up to Toledo to meet with Mike Fortune. This is a very beautiful church facility and Mike is doing a great job there in reaching the community in some very creative ways. They sponsor and host a car show in the church parking lot every year and are getting a very large turnout. They have adopted a women's shelter, hosted community block parties and done mission trips to Toledo just to name a few. Now Mike has asked his church to pick from the 20+ outreach events they have done and choose the three that they can do best. They have a pastor with a passion and the church is trusting him to lead. What a concept. There is a picture also of Dee, the church secretary who, as always, holds things together.
The last two pics are of the Battle Creek Tabernacle church. Bruce Moore, Sr. Pastor, gave me a great tour of the church and, as you will see in the next post, of some of the historical sights. They have done some nice refurbishing for a church that was built in 1924 after the Dime Tabernacle burned down in 1922. I was interested to see if this church had an eye to the future in that so much history is focused here and I found that they definitely do. Obviously they get a lot of visitors, but they are also offering a variety of classes to the community including Depression Seminars. They have adopted a portion of a local highway and they participate in at least one local mission project with a Christmas offering each year. I'll continue with my Battle Creek visit in the next post.
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