Switching to Two Services

Dear Phos Community Church,

We are having a blast watching what God has done in us, for us, and through us over the years since PCC started.  Of course, this past year has been very eventful with the purchase and renovation of our new outpost at 4200 Centerfield Drive.  And, it’s been a lot of fun to meet new people who are finding their way to 4200 each Sunday.  The growth has been strong and we’re doing what we can to prepare for even more new friends to join this journey.  

To do so, we are adding a second worship experience on Sunday mornings at 4200.  This will be a ‘mirror-image’ worship experience offered each week at 9 AM beginning on March 4.  (Childcare will be available during both services.)  Because the music and message each hour are the same, the only real choice you have to make is to choose which time (9 or 10:30 AM) fits your family’s life pattern best. 

The Leadership Team (staff & elders) at PCC have not arrived at this decision easily nor as a ‘knee jerk’ reaction to recent growth.  It’s been on the drawing board since we moved to 4200 back in June of 2011.  If you recall when we met at OCHS for those two years, we had our worship experience at 10 AM.  When we moved over to 4200, we changed our start time to 10:30 believing that in the not too distant future that we would need to add a second service at 9 AM.  

PCC continues to welcome new friends to the journey each weekend and we need to make space for them and their guests.  And, the fastest and most cost-effective way to double our seating capacity is to add this second service.  

We believe this also offers several other benefits:
  1. It makes space available for new people who need to know Christ.  This one reason alone would be enough to make this shift.
  2. It allows the child care and hospitality teams to serve one hour and experience worship with us during the other.
  3. It doubles the capacity of our nursery, preschool & children’s areas.
  4. It makes it easier for more people to serve on Sunday mornings because they won’t have to miss the worship experience to do so.  Serving is a vital part of our growth as a Christ follower.  
As always, I’m grateful to be your pastor and to be on this journey with you where we are getting to see God move!

Joyfully,

Jeff Fuson 

P.S.  We may return to one service at 10:30 for the summer of 2012 and then shift back to two in the fall after Labor Day in September.  We are always experimenting with what will serve the most people the most effectively and will keep you posted.
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