So you want to know a little bit about His Place?  Cool beans!  In 2002, His Place Cathedral of Faith started in the living room of pastors Wayne and Connie Davis with only a few family members and friends attending.   After a couple of months the small group outgrew the living room and needed a new place to meet.

 

 

The small group looked and looked and finally found a small banquet hall in Bangor MI that they could rent.  In order to have church every week, they set up the chairs and put away the chairs, moved the chairs, and stacked the chairs.  Oh God the chairs!   Thankfully they filled up the chairs and needed a new place again to call home.  The Lord told them that they needed to build a new church so they started looking for new property to build on.  At about the same time they were looking for a church building that would hold all of them while they were building.

 

 

They found a small church in Hartford MI that they could rent and have services in.

 

 

They also found a piece of property at the end of 70th st and CR 378 that (putting it mildly) literally was a dump.  The property that they bought was a place that locals would go and dump all of their trash; old furniture and even a few condemned mobile homes that were falling in.  Isn't is like God to tell them to build a church on a dump?  So they cleaned it up; they hauled trash, cut trees, cleared the property, burned, cleaned, and cleared for over a year.  Oh God the cleaning!

 

 

So we poured the concrete.

 

 

Framed the walls.

 

 

Put a roof on.

 

 

God has a way of sending the right people at the right time to get the job finished from contractors to electricians. God sent people left and right at exactly the right time they needed them to finish the job.

 

 

Now, when I mean worked together I mean nobody ended up in the hospital with a hammer blow to the head.  I wont lie this was a test for the church, but the good news is that they all still love each other; and the church is built.  Just keepin it real.

 

Here is where the story gets good.  God was not finished with them building...   since nobody got really really hurt, and everyone still got along pretty good, God told them to build a community center.  So they did, in Hartford.  Really God told them to build 5 of community centers in the surrounding communities.

 

His Place has also opened the Hartford Learning center, and they are currently working on the Hartford Food Pantry, and looking at property for the Bangor Community Center.   You see, it is more important for the church to work outside of the 4 walls of the church building; affecting lives in the surrounding communities is more important than how nice the chairs are.  Oh God the chairs!   Anyways you'll have to come to the church in the middle of nowhere that used to be a dump, and see all the new chairs sometime.   His Place Cathedral of Faith currently seats around 300 and we would love to fill all the chairs up so we can knock out a couple of walls and build again.

 

 

To Be Continued...