Volunteers often comment on how wonderful Sunday morning worship is at Neema Village. Unlike back home, the worship is loud, active, and full of joy, dancing and laughter as God is praised and thanked. It is an unforgettable experience!
Singing and dancing at Sunday church service, Praising Jesus, thanking God!
And it is crowded, with wall to wall people… babies, children, nannies, MAP moms, soccer kids, volunteers, neighbors, visitors, etc. With 87 baptisms in 2024, and 30 baptisms already this year, the church at Neema Village is GROWING!
Above: One of the Many Baptisms at Neema Village Church
From the beginning we have reached out with the Good News of Jesus and brought people to Christ. But since having a worship center and a full time minister on board, we have witnessed much greater response to the Story of Jesus. People peering in through the windows has made us realize that we must do something.
A Wall to Wall Sunday at Neema Village Church
I Cor. 3:6, the Apostle Paul says of the Corinthian Church, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow,” That is what has happened at Neema Village. We have been planting and watering, and God has made it grow! Praise God!
Now, to stay in step with what God is doing, we feel the need to have a larger worship center. What is wrong with our old one? It is a very fine building, and we love worshipping there, but it will not accommodate the numbers we have coming, and it will not allow for growth. Everyone is saying, “Do something!” What a great problem to have!
Babies are brought to church each Sunday. We always make room for them.
I think God has provided a solution. Before we built the worship center, we had built a school building for our pre-school children to use for class and music. They have been doing that, but we have come to realize that our number of students don’t require as much space as we originally planned.
We have had wonderful classrooms, but bigger than needed.
So, we have come up with a plan to “switch” the buildings… make the school our worship center and the church building our school. With re-design, taking out walls, etc. it is believed that we can more than double the size of our Worship Center at a fraction of the cost of building a new one. In fact, my good guess is that we can accommodate crowds of 400 people or more!
The walls are out, showing the big space available for the new Worship Center.
That is room to grow, a spacious place for worship, a place for big men’s and women’s conferences, and a place for big community meetings.
So, we are making the switch and we are using our conference center as a temporary worship center. It is a tight fit.
We have begun the demolition of walls of our former school. The big open space we have created certainly gives us the ability to dream for the future.
Sunday worship at Neema…. all about praising God and saying “Thank You” to Jesus
We would welcome you to partner with us in this ongoing venture to see how God will use this building swap to reach more and more with the Good News, and for His Glory!
Michael and Dorris Fortson
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