Ground Breaking!

No, we haven't started building our new house yet. But this Sunday we had a Ground Breaking ceremony for our church. Mountain View Community Church (Urbana, MD) has been around for 11 years, and we've been going there for almost 6. All this time we've met in a high school. But we have purchased land about a mile away from the high school, and the building will be going up soon! We're all very excited about the new building--not only for the convenience on Sunday mornings, but also to have a place that we can use throughout the week for all kinds of activities, and to be more visible and accessible to the community. The ceremony was really neat, and even the kids got to help dig. I think Ethan was expecting us to actually dig the entire foundation out, so I had to explain that the big machines would come in to do that. We were just giving them a little help getting started. :) After the groundbreaking, we had a church picnic, and got to meet our new Pastor of Discipleship, who will be starting next month. It was a very exciting and encouraging day for our church.