Extend network AND connect via ethernet?

How do I configure Airport Express to extend my network wirelessly and connect a computer via Ethernet?
I have 2 buildings at my church I am in charge of getting this to work in. The office building has a wireless network, the sanctuary has no ethernet or wireless at all. I can get a good signal to an Airport Express I just purchased inside the sanctuary and I am using that to feed internet to the PowerMac G4 that doesnt seem to see the network from the Office area. I was told that this could also extend my wireless network to the other computers in the sanctuary. I have not been able to get this to happen.
I succesfully have it in "Join a Network" mode and it grabs the signal and gets internet to the G4. As soon as I change the mode to "Extend my network", I lose all connectivity with the network. In addition, no matter what mode I am in, I can't see this Airport from any devices wirelessly either in the utility or in the Airport browser.
So...how do I allow other machines/tablets/etc to use this airport to hook in to our network AND use the Ethernet line to feed the G4?
Thanks,
Joey

I am going from an Airport Extreme 4th gen (dual band) to an Airport Express 2nd gen (just replaced thanks to the Genius Bar, it used to be a 1st gen. single band) and then picking it up with another Express 2nd gen.
That.....is the problem.
I had understood from your initial post that you had an AirPort Extreme and wanted to extend to several AirPort Express devices.
Apple's "extend" setup works like the hub and spokes of a wheel. The AirPort Extreme would be the "hub" and the AirPort Expresses would reside at the end of the "spokes".
You can have multiple AirPort Express devices located at the ends of the spokes, but in order to "extend", each one of the them must connect directly to the "hub".....not to another extending device at the end of another spoke.
What you are trying to set up is a "hub", "relay" and "remote".  Unfortunately, Apple's "extend" setup does not work this way. 
The distant remote can pick up a signal from an Express at the end of a spoke acting as an extender, but the distant remote cannot "extend" the signal from an Express at the end of a spoke using wireless.
The distant remote is actually joining the network....that is why the Ethernet port is active....but unfortunately,  there will be no wireless signal from this device.
Somewhere, an Express will need to connect back to the Extreme using a wired Ethernet connection. Then that Express can "extend" to another Express using wireless.

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