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I have the privilege of preaching every Sunday, and most Sunday’s at our home church here on the island, the Palmetto Point Gospel Chapel. However, this past weekend the ministry was anything but homiletics and hermeneutics.
We have been wanting to expand our existing fellowship hall for months now, and one of our elders set forth to pour the floor, so now it was time to set the blocks. With a plan in place we all met together and began to lay the 400 blocks for the walls.
From my summers with the Training Center I had become quite proficient in laying block, but admittedly it has been a few years. But much like riding a bike it all comes back! However, being one of the youngest on site, I found myself doing more of the grunt labor and those and those who are “more skilled” set forth to laying the main courses… that is until it got too far over their heads (always nice to have someone on your church staff who is both young and tall).
I was shocked to see so many people from the community stop by while we were out working. Never would you have see these folks darken the sanctuary door, but when there is construction work going on they’re just everywhere. I believe that says something to the nature of the church to be involved in service, it gets people’s attention.
One of our volunteers brought two of his boys to help. They did a fantastic job. These young fellas were there to lend a helping hand at any and every spot. And for being so small they did a great job lifting those heavy blocks.
For lunch the women of the church prepared “Sheep-Tongue Souse” – ok, so I’ve never had sheep tongue before… its different. Let me put it this way, if you didn’t know what you were eating, it wouldn’t be half bad.
All in all it was a good weekend and with the few hands we had to help we really accomplished a lot. Three walls went up in just over 8 hours. It is a privilege to be a part of erecting a structure where God’s people will meet to worship Him for generations to come.