Building our sanctuary started out as just a simple, little project.  We were going to do it for about $150,000, but it’s double that already.  The carpet is going to cost us, from the office to the gym—just the carpet’s $80,000.  So, hallelujah!  The air conditioning bid is $40,000.  We just today raised the cost of your chairs, so I thought I’d let you know.  We have some nice chairs—very comfortable, the best cushions that you can make.  They’re comfortable.  We figured out that they should cost you only a penny per service, so I would encourage you to come to Thursday night prayer, not just Tuesday, and it will reduce it to about a half a cent.  The more you use it, the cheaper it gets.  But it looks like a hundred and fifteen dollars per chair.  We don’t need it tonight.  The stuff won’t be here for at least twelve weeks—I think it is, something like that, just to give you an idea of what’s going on.  Be prayerful about that.  Some of you know, and some of you don’t.  We did this—how many years ago did we buy the chairs?  

Anyways, we have some of those expenses before us.  We do have money set aside in the Joash chest, and we still have a couple hundred thousand dollars in the Joash Chest.  That’s going to be going for this project, and then it will all be gone.  The Joash Chest money that we have taken and used, as you remember, for all of the brick work, all of this refurbishing that has been going on that we’ve not taken special offerings for.  It’s because we’ve been using this money in the Joash Chest.  For any project following this project, we’re going to have to take some special offerings.  Some of that can be deferred, as we give toward this one.  So let me just encourage you with this that we’ve been looking at, the willing heart.  These are some of the larger expenses I shared.  So just be prayerful.  If the Lord puts it on your heart, and you want to give an extra hundred bucks a month or something toward it, it all adds up.  What’s the old saying?  We can pay now, pay later.  I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.  Half of you are looking at me and going, “What?”  And others remember Wimpy and Popeye.  But I think the thing that affects me most is this willing heart that the Holy Ghost—it seems like He’s trying to drive something home to us.  What do you think?