This video walks through The 930, giving a tour of the space with Michael Winters, and hearing the philosophy of ministry from pastor Daniel Montgomery.
The video was made by a couple of guys from The Austin Stone Church in Austin, Texas when their church was researching how they wanted to go about purchasing and renovating a building of their own.

I've been to Jim Bishop's castle twice now.  He's been building it by hand by himself for forty years.  A friend just sent me this CNN profile video on him, so I thought I'd share.  It's quite a lesson in dedication to a creative vision.

You'll need to do some imagining, but this picture shows the wooden form for our new baptismal that will be used for years to come at the 930/  Germantown campus.  The guy with the big smile is Scott Ramser.  Scott has worked super hard on both this baptismal and on our new communion table (blog post w/ pics coming soon) so if you see him around, say thanks.

The final bapstismal will be this 8-sided shape and covered inside and out in copper.  The design is intended to be subtly reminiscent of a casket because baptism is a symbol of being buried with Christ and raised to new life.  It has eight sides because eight is traditionally the number of regeneration, and many historical baptismal fonts have an octagonal base for this reason.  Other biblical foreshadowings of baptism also relate to the number eight.  It can be assumed that because of Jewish custom, Jesus was circumcised and named when he was eight days old and baptism is understood by some Christians as the New Testament equivalent of circumcision.  Also, eight people were saved in Noah's ark, which is another Old Testament parallel of baptism.

The new baptismal should be ready for the next round of baptisms.

Richard Fudge has begun sending around two prayer journal sketchbooks for artists to make a spread of prayer-infused art and then mail on to the next artist.  The project, which he's calling 'To Send a Prayer' can be followed on its own blog - http://2sendaprayer.blogspot.com/.  I believe I'm right in thinking that he's happy to get more people involved so contact Richard through his blog (http://fudge-art.blogspot.com/)if you want to participate.  I'm going to.

The project was inspired by another mail/sketchbook project called 'Look at Book' which turned out fantastically though it was not about prayer like this one is.