Oasis Church - Grand Opening 2010

This past Sunday we had the Grand Opening of Oasis Church @ 716 Broad St. our very first permanent facility, or at least temporarily permanent. It's been a crazy 5 weeks...

5 weeks ago, 2 days before our lease ended with the Richmond County Board of Education, I received an email that had our new lease renewal attached to it. I opened the attachment and was floored to find out that the BOE was more than doubling our rent. So, immediately I was faced with the decison, where do we go from here. What's so crazy is that I have been praying for months that I would know when the right time was to move from the school to our own building. Well, God made it very clear when the right time was. So at this point I just started calling realtors, and looking at buildings, large and small, free-standing and store fronts, warehouses and retail space, anything that was available. Probably in a weeks time I looked at 20-25 buildings. I was made aware of the fact that the Broad St. building was coming available by a fellow Pastor in the area. So I made some calls and we went and looked at the building, and from this point on, everything started to really fall into place. Every option was taken off the table, every door was shut, this is the only door that opened to us. So in obedience we walked through it. Then crunch time started. We had to get this building ready by February 21st for our Grand Opening. With the help of a bunch of very faithful and sacrificial Oasis peeps we finished the day before the Grand Opening. Everything looked great!!

Sunday was the big day, and I was so proud of our people and our leadership team. They worked so hard, and this was their day to enjoy. And I feel like they really did. I had several people make comments about the buzz and excitement in the air. I think it was nice for our people to have a place they can call home.

We had 108 people in attendance for the Grand opening with several guests and also some folks that we have been missing. Overall I was so pleased and so very thankful, first to God for making that day possible and having favor on us and also to a great team of people who worked their behinds off to make it a great place. We are so blessed!!