New Church Start

It's about time I told you about our new church start, Crossway!

Last Fall we started meeting with about 10 families.  There are so many internationals since the UN has one of it's headquarters in Vienna.  We currently meet on Sunday afternoons and this week we will start 2 home groups.  One will be meeting in our home.   We hope and pray to see some of these groups expanding in to different languages. 

We started out meeting in Kristi & Jeremy's home on Sunday mornings.

 But for our group to expand further we needed to find a meeting place.

In December we had an advent service.  A local Syriac Orthodox Church was gracious enough to allow us to use their facilities.

Leading worship.

Special music from our trombonists.

The kids did a little presentation & singing.

Even some of our youth joined in to read some scripture.

 James preaching from the Word.

 And no good, church service is complete without some food and fellowship!

In January we secured another location where we will meet on a long term temporary basis (until this Summer).  It's not ideal as we would like to have our worship time in the mornings and we can only have this space at 1:30 pm (not ideal for families with napping children).  But it has many positive features and will be a good fit for us as we get this group going.

We look forward to sharing more with you in the months to come as we see what God has in store!!