Indiana Campus adjusts service times
By Brent Adams | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The popularity of the late Sunday service at Southeast’s Indiana Campus has forced the church to adjust the times of both of its Sunday morning services.
Beginning Sunday, May 1, weekly worship services at the Indiana Campus will be moved from the current 9 and 11 a.m. worship times to 9:30 and 11:15 a.m.
The early service is being moved a half-hour later to make it easier for visitors and families with young children.
The late service currently is about 80 percent full, and church leaders hope that pushing back the start time of the early service will encourage some people to attend the
early service. That will free up room for people who want to invite friends, family and neighbors to the late service.
Church leaders also have observed that when the parking lot is full at the 11 a.m. service, visitors are driving off rather than parking at the adjacent MKM Machine Tool
Co., Inc., factory parking lot and taking a shuttle bus to the church. That concern should be eased later this spring when a new parking lot opens between the campus
and the MKM building, Indiana Campus Pastor Eddie Johnson said.
“As (retired Southeast Senior Minister) Bob Russell used to say, the methods might change, but the message will remain the same,” Johnson said. “In order to grow and
serve God in the best way you can, sometimes you have to change your methods, and this is one of those instances.”
Johnson said that moving the early service to 9:30 a.m. also will make it easier on people who serve in volunteer roles.
“We ask people to attend worship for an hour and serve for an hour, and we believe that by shrinking the time between services, that will encourage more people to
serve,” Johnson said.
He added that he continues to be amazed by the growth of Southeast’s first regional campus, which opened two years ago.
“We didn’t start this campus as a convenience to our members,” Johnson said. “We started it to reach more people for God, and this growth is a sign that we’re continuing to do that.”