Today we held the first service in our new Church with the help of many volunteers, long hours by the music and leadership teams, and a sunny day courtesy of Mother Nature.

Here are a few pictures of people who rejoiced with us and shared this special day in our new facilities. New displays provided history lessons and support for worship leadership team.

The youngest singer joining us today was just one month old.

After Church we celebrated and shared fellowship in the Atrium.

Here are a few outside views of the new Church taken this morning.

Yesterday the moving van’s loaded up furniture, files, fixtures and more from the parsonage and moved them to the new Church.  Kudos to Cindy, Susan and Tom for directing traffic during a long day.

The handbell choir completed their first practice in the new Church in anticipation of the Decmeber 8th Opening Celebration.  Joey and the band spent a long evening working with the Zamar team and our volunteers to get through the first band practice.

The team from Advance Glass and Mirror removed the plywood inserts and installed temporary glass in the Sanctuary and Transom windows today.  This was the last step in obtaining our Temporary Certificate of Occupancy.

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There are many, many details to work out before we have our first “soft opening” service in the new Church on Sunday.

Today was the first staff meeting to prepare for the first service.

Today was the last San Jose First service in the Horace Mann Elementary cafetorium, home to our church on Sunday’s since 2005.

The last hymm we sang was “We Are Marching”.

Here are a few pictures of our new bike racks.  Also recent views of the Church.