Grace and peace to you. I’m Rev. Joe Cailles, the pastor of Peakland United Methodist Church in Lynchburg Virginia. Today is Wednesday, August 16.

I am standing in Peakland’s fellowship hall to show you the new thing we are doing at the Sunday morning Horizons Worship service. We’ve switched things up! When you come to Horizons worship this Sunday, you’ll be worshipping in a new direction. Instead of facing this side wall, we’ve set up the chairs to face the East, toward the rising of the sun.

Everything else about Horizon worship stays the same. The rocking chairs are still here. The tall tables and chairs are still here. The couch and the children’s play are still here. We’ll still be singing our praise songs. We’ll still have scriptures and sermons and prayers, and we will still offer ways that Peakland is reaching out, serving all, and extending God’s Table. We’re just doing it in a slightly different way.

This arrangement, we hope, will allow Peakland pre-school to make better use of the space when the children come back beginning next week. We hope this arrangement will make it easier for us to set up this room for receptions and small meetings and church suppers too.

Linwood and Robert and church folks have been working very hard these past few days to prepare, and I’m grateful to them for their vision for how Horizons makes use of this space.

Now we know there are some things that we still need to do to perfect this worship space. We’re to have some new curtains put up on the windows. We have some additional big screens coming that will help us worship, and we have to worship here together to see if it all fits together. That will happen over the next few weeks.

Horizon worship is at 9:45 on Sundays in person here in this space. Sanctuary worship is at 8:30 in person and we livestream and worship in person in the sanctuary at 11:00.

Come worship here at Peakland. All are welcome. Thanks be to God!