It's Done!

(this is an archive posting from June, 2007, when we had just signed the papers on the purchase of our church building) 

It's done. We closed on the Vance Street property June 1 at 3:00 pm. Due to an error in the property address, funding will occur on Monday, June 4. So that's Phase 1 complete. Now the fun begins!

We have a preliminary renovation plan in the works. We are meeting with the structural engineer, the licensed contractor and the crew chief the week of June 4 to develop the detailed renovation plan, from which the project will be carefully managed.

Our targeted first service in the new church is Sunday, November 19, just in time for Thanksgiving! Between now and then we have lots to do: building downstairs bathrooms, opening walls for the bookstore/front entry, sanctuary stage and wheel chair ramp for the administrative offices, building the administration offices, opening a window for the sound booth, building the cry room, remodeling the kitchen, reconfiguring the youth ed classrooms, roof work, landscaping work, stucco application and repair, painting (inside and out), HVAC work, carpeting, and things we might not yet know about J. When we finish by mid-November, we will have a lovely space in which we can provide more programs and accommodate more people more comfortably.

Thank you, God. And thank you, congregation.