Taking the Gospel to the Market Place
My wife, Jessica, landed a job as the activities coordinator at the Market Place Apartments, a retirement community for lower-income seniors in Brownwood, Texas. With the permission of the residents, Jessica invited me to begin holding Wednesday evening services at Market Place. We began with an attendance of 14 the first two weeks, then grew to 20 the third week, before falling back to 17. Satan has decided to battle our efforts at Market Place, with problems arising between factions of residents, which reduced our attendance last Wednesday to 12. Still, a core group at Market Place is emerging, and we anticipate attendance will pick back up.
Residents attend group activities at Market Place.
Mission: Brownwood to expand apartment ministries
As Sunday morning attendance at our home studies struggled, Jessica and I prayed about God’s next step for us. As soon as certain key details can be worked out, we will begin holding services in another local apartment complex. We’ll release the details after we get them nailed down. We do have a complex that has enthusiastically agreed to let us use their facilities. We averaged 7 in our home-based worship services.
Finances
SUPPORT RECEIVED:
Denson Springs MBC (Grapeland, TX) $50
58th Ave MBC (Amarillo, TX) $208.83
Bethel MBC (Tatum, TX) $50
Memory Lane MBC (Palestine, TX) $50
Quaker Ave. MBC (Lubbock, TX) $100
East Side BC (Jacksonville, TX) $100
Bassett Rd BC (Palestine, TX) $75
Wyndrock MBC (Abilene, TX) $40
Dawn Blackburn (Jacksonville) $100
Nevill’s Chapel MBC (Mt. Pleasant, TX) $140.16
Heritage BC (Tyler, TX) $200
Sandie & Mike Rossiter (Jacksonville, TX) $500
Hickory Grove MBC (Newport, AR) $82.71
Memorial MBC (Rusk, TX) $200
John Nickle (Rusk, TX) $25.
EXPENDITURES:
Salary - $1,000
Housing - $740
Fuel - $128.27
Computer Supples - $39.98.
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