by Sandy » Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:31 pm
At the last SBC church I served in Houston, we hosted two public high school graduation ceremonies every year. There was a cross, with a background of illuminated stained glass in the baptistery. It was a high ceiling, and the baptistery was highly visible above the choir loft, all the way up to the peaked ceiling. There wasn't a curtain or a door closing it off. Both schools wanted us to turn on the lights and illuminate the cross during their ceremony. There was also a cross on the pulpit, which they used to make speeches. They rented the facility at the rate we quoted. We provided a sound system operator, custodial service that included opening and closing, help with parking, and with exiting the parking lots, and use of the fellowship hall for the receptions. We had hymnals and Bibles in the racks, left up all of the wall decorations and notices, and never had a problem.