All Things New!

Welcome to the new Granger Community Church Campus Operations Team blog!

In Revelation 21, God lets the apostle Paul see into the future. He shows Paul that there is coming a day when men will forever live in God’s presence. In that time, there will be no more sickness, no more death and no more pain. God, our friend, will personally wipe all tears from our eyes and the passage goes on to say, “for the old order of things has passed away."-Rev. 21:4 What a day that will be! In the next verse it says, “He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’"

It is a new day for the Campus Operations Team! We are changing it up a bit, excited about the wonderful opportunities that God has for us this year. We believe it is through change that God stretches us and helps us to know where our hearts are focused so that we can follow Him with reckless abandon.

Some of the new things you will see this year are:

1. Our blog. We will use this blog as a connection point for the Campus Operations Team. We’ll post calendars of each teams’ serving schedules. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and learn about those serving and about our teams. We’ll also post pictures so you can “see” what’s going on. Check back often to see what’s new!

2. Our Quarterly Gathering. We will be changing to a new format this year. More on this at our next meeting…you will not want to miss it!

3. Leadership helps. We want to resource you to develop and hone your gifts and skills to better serve God and others.

These are just a few of the things we have planned to help us connect better as a team.

In closing, I want to thank a key person for making all this happen. If you have served anywhere in the Campus Operations arena, you have met, known and loved her and her leadership. The past few months, she has been transitioning out of the Campus Operations role to a new position at GCC. For 12 years, Melanie Rosander has followed and trusted God in the building of a great team! She has spent untold amounts of time and energy helping to develop what we know as the Campus Operations Team. I know that a part of her heart will always be attached to the team. When you see her, l encourage you to say “Thank you.” She is a great servant of our God!

Greg

Team Highlight - Birds of a Feather

As our campus was developed and is being developed, we made a choice to include areas like the Bird Sanctuary for our members and guests to enjoy along with members of the community (you’ve probably noticed there is one apartment complex next to our campus, a retirement community across from us on Cleveland Road and an apartment complex across from us on University Drive). With these areas, we hope that people will contemplate God as our creator and find a place to reflect on God surrounded by nature.

People who enjoy nature and appreciate what we’re doing with the “soft” areas on campus often find their “fit” on a Campus Operations team. The Birds of a Feather team cares for the Bird Sanctuary and fills and maintains the feeders and bird baths. They do this all year around. Each team member is assigned a day of the month to fill the feeders and do a little “housekeeping” in the sanctuary.

A wide variety of birds visit or call our campus home. We see blue jays, cardinals, cedar waxwings, bluebirds, ducks, Canadian geese, woodpeckers and mourning doves. This spring the team will try to attract Baltimore Orioles.

We also have a geocache in our Bird Sanctuary. What is a geocache? Check out http://www.geocaching.com. The link to the geocache in our sanctuary is http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc1h5g0.