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THE WOODLANDS Twenty months of construction are now complete on the new 1,000-seat Harvest Worship Center at The Woodlands United Methodist Church.

The church is commemorating the opening and dedication of the new worship venue with a live, continuous reading of the entire Bible. Hundreds of church members are volunteering to read scripture and pray through the 70 hours preceding the first worship service in the new space at 9:30 a.m. today. Doors are open to visitors and people are encouraged to come in and listen to the live Bible readings and pray for this worship community.

A new caf, bookstore and community meeting areas will open this weekend as part of the Harvest Worship Center. The auditorium is equipped to provide media-rich experiences through music, video and theatrical lighting.

The space features theater-style seating, surrounding a semicircular-shaped stage built for contemporary worship.

We hope this is a centerpiece for our faith community a place where friendships and family connections are strengthened, said Ed Robb, senior pastor. Weve designed a special place where people want to spend time, on Sundays and throughout the week.

Plant, Grow, Harvest is our theme and our focus for 2015, said Rev. Mark Sorensen, lead pastor of the Harvest worship community. We pray everyone who worships with us will become firmly rooted here and make meaningful connections with God and with others.

The Harvest Worship Center is the third of three building projects to open at the church as part of the $20 million Imagine capital campaign. The complex sits across the street from the new Whole Foods Market, currently under construction in Hughes Landing. The church is expanding to keep pace with new construction in Town Center and overall population growth in The Woodlands and South Montgomery County.

The Woodlands United Methodist Church is an 11,000-member congregation offering nine live worship services each week in four unique worship venues. TWUMC streams Sunday worship live, online each week at watch.thewoodlandsumc.org. Learn more about TWUMC at thewoodlandsumc.org and loftchurch.com.

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SINGAPORE: Ongoing tunnelling work for the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) along Upper Thomson Road appears to have forced the Church of the Holy Spirit to close its chapel indefinitely, after some floor tiles within buckled.

The Catholic church revealed this in a post showing the affected tiles on its Facebook page on Thursday, preceded by another post of pictures of a long crack on the exterior of its building.

The floor tiles on the left side of our chapel have buckled, possibly due to extensive TEL MRT tunnelling work next to the parish. Some tiles have cracked. For safety reasons, our chapel is closed indefinitely, the post said.

The church, which is more than 50 years old, is located next to the construction site for the Upper Thomson MRT Station.

The contract for the stations construction was awarded to Sato Kogyo Singapore. Work began in the first quarter of last year and it is expected to be completed in 2019.

TODAY saw that the buckled tiles ran along the left side of the chapel during a visit yesterday. There were also some chipped tiles between the pews and loose tiles along the main aisle of the chapel. However, the cracks on the exterior of the church building have been patched up.

Mr Joseph Bong, the churchs head of pastoral care for the Sick Ministry, said it discovered the issues about two to three weeks ago. The road beside the chapel was also cracked, but has since been repaired by Sato Kogyo, he said.

Mr Bong added that it is in close contact with the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and the construction firm. Both have been informed of the problems and have been to the church to take photos, he said.

The three parties have also been meeting monthly since September last year to discuss the effects of the MRT work as well as traffic management, he added.

Mr Bong said he does not feel that the issues are serious and the church will commence repair work soon. It is sourcing for quotations and hopes to reopen the chapel by the middle of the year, he added.

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