I always know who I'm with.....

(Cheesy Little Big Town lyrics for the title... I know!! But I love that song!!!!)

Yesterday was the last service in our old warehouse building. It was a great service. We watched old videos, watched picture slideshows and sang the Leadership Team's favorite songs.

Two things that I will not miss..... the train and the cats.

But as I sat there, so many emotions ran through me. Remembering our first service, watching Saraya move through the nursery. She was 6 months old when we started at Crossroads. So many memories are involved in this building. Vacation Bible Schools, Cell groups, Super Bowl parties, scrapbooking days, Women's events, ping pong, Valentine Banquets, lots of food, lots of talking and lots of laughter.

One person who was noticeably absent for me was Melissa Meeker. I don't think a Sunday goes by that I don't think of her as I sing from stage. She was my duet partner for many years. (She is now fighting cancer in Nashville) We keep in touch through emails, and Saturday night I got one from her. As she talked about remembering all our plays and all our singing she asked me to think of her as we did our last service. And of course I did. I hate that I won't be singing on that stage anymore, mainly because I always think of singing up there with her!!

The familiarity of that building is wonderful. It's a Catch-22, we want more room and a bigger stage yet I love the intimacy and the closeness from this stage. Not going to that building for band practice breaks my heart. That's something that I've done every Thursday night for the past 3.5 years.

But the truth is, while I feel sentimental towards our old building and everything that it holds and represents, I am so overjoyed about our new building. I am so very pumped about our HUGE stage!! And the only thing that makes it less sad leaving the old building, is knowing that all the people that made the first one special are going to be by my side making the new one just as special.

I'll post pictures in a couple weeks from our first service in the new building.