Farewell to USA Cinema

Tomorrow morning (June 7th), Walnut Creek Community Church will meet for the last time (Lord willing) at the USA Cinema in Niles, Ohio. Beginning next Sunday, we will be Cross Point Bible Fellowship, having merged with Vienna Baptist Church, in whose building we will begin to meet. Although, for a number of reasons, we are pleased to be moving from the theater, it really has been a blessing to meet in the theater for the past 4.5 years.

Here are some reasons why it's been a blessing (taken from the sermon I have prepared for tomorrow):

1. In 4.5 years, the USA Cinema owners never once raised our rent.

2. When the church met at Lakeview High School, our equipment had to be brought in a trailer every Sunday. But here in the theater, we’ve been able to store most of our equipment.

3. Meeting in the theater hasn’t killed our church. While we wonder if some of the new people who visited couldn’t quite wrap their minds around having church in a theater every Sunday, many of the new people did.