The electricians found the cause of the problem in the sanctuary – a ballast for one of the fluorescent lights failed, began to smoke and burned out. The ballast has been replaced. The lights are back on. We are ready to resume worship of Almighty God in our sanctuary.
We are not sure why a circuit breaker did not trip and shut off the electricity before the ballast began to burn. We will be checking that issue out.
We found out our sanctuary does not have a smoke detector. We are checking on what it will take to install one.
Although we had an orderly and uneventful evacuation of the building, we are also going to work on improving our emergency procedures in case we have need to respond to like emergencies.
Although inconvenient for our past Sunday morning activities, may we use this incident as a learning moment to better prepare ourselves for dealing with this kind of circumstance if such should happen in the future.
