Bethlehem is on the brink of finalizing what will probably be the most significant structural

change in her 133 year history.

Namely, the purchasing and making permanent

of a multi-campus approach to one church on several sites, namely the purchase of the building that you may look at on page six.

In fact, I invite you to go to page six with me so that I'm sorry it's not six which page is it 12

You just need to lay your eyes on this building because it represents something.

It isn't the something, but it represents the vision that we're going to talk about this

morning.

So you see a picture, then you see the location at I-35 in Highway 10.

You see 350 parking places at the bottom.

And if you were to tool around in here, you'd see a 5.6 million dollar price tag on the building

and you would see another million and a half plus to turn it into a church.

And so you can do the math and see what we're about to embark upon, but far more important

than the dollars is the turn this represents for us. We've been experimenting with it since October of 2002 and you have

been the guinea pigs. And I thank God for you and your remarkable responsiveness to this vision of a north campus here in these

rented facilities which, Lord willing, within five or six months we will never enter again, but rather have our own 24-7 site for the

North campus and then a west, a south, an east, and if you can dream big enough, more.

Treasuring Christ together is not about the North campus.

It's about multiplying campuses and planting churches. This happens to be one and so it gets

a special attention now in these next several weeks but oh that our minds might be big enough to get around what God may be pleased to do.

Lord willing, April 28th, that's a Wednesday night, Wednesday a week, you and all of Bethlehem will vote on whether to purchase that site

and move ahead with the build out.

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