What Just Happened?

Thank You Over the past few weeks, YOU gave over 13,000 pieces of candy for kids downtown on Halloween. (that is, 13,000 by Saturday, October 27!) Each piece of candy is a potential opporrtunity to make a connection to a family this week, and invite them in to Christ. NOT ONLY have SO MANY people brought candy, but Dianne Fowler …

Dealing With Suffering

This was the final message in this series.  You can listen to the whole series on our website. You can even browse through previous message series as well. Will Your Group Serve For Gilmer? above: Mary Callihan invites people to Family Day above: We definitely get all kinds when we’re downtown. Has your group decided when to serve downtown? This …

Five Reasons We Do Halloween Downtown

Every year, we head downtown for the big Halloween Trick or Treat event.  There, we love on kids and families by providing interactive games, candy, and more. We LOVE it. Some people aren’t too sure why a church would participate in a Halloween event, so I thought I would publish these five reasons: Making the Gospel Relevant We believe we …

Thanks for the Reminder, God! UPDATE: containers in now

We’re going to BUILD A WALL, and…. Wait. Not the same thing. At all. There’s a privacy fence up on part of our property now. Why? Because God decided to give us a little reminder. The elders were recently talking about the increased expenses that we have around the church right now. (Continued building expenses, not to mention a new …

Project Timeline

We have a preliminary, general look at our project timeline of commitment and construction for our new building. As you can imagine, it is FAR more complex than this, but I thought I would simplify it way down for you, so you could have a look at it. As you can see, it looks like we are right at THREE …

One Law to Rule Them All

The Orchard Church doesn’t exist for our own sake… We’re here FOR Gilmer County. We’re for people here because we believe JESUS is for people. So, as we roll into the holiday season, we have several big opportunities for us to take a stand for children and for families who happen to be our neighbors. I know you will want …

The Lay of the Land

We finally received our full topographic survey a couple of weeks ago. I thought you’d like to see it. This was a necessary piece for us. Our engineers have merged this data with our boring samples from a few months ago to determine the real bedrock situation underneath the surface, and what our runoff situation will have to look like. …

Mix and Match

A big Thank You Wow! I have to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who moved from the 10:30 service into one of the other services.  Did you see how full the 8:30 was?? And more importantly, we had SEATS AVAILABLE FOR GUESTS at 10:00! Thank you thank you!! We will track our attendance over the next several weeks, …