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Long Range Plan Facility Report

From our Long Range Plan : "At present our facilities are straining to accommodate existing ministries. The new and expanded ministries envisioned in the Long-range Plan will require additional facilities ... "

"... The committee recommends that a Facilities Planning Committee be established immediately to prepare a plan for accomplishing this expansion."

Your Facility Planning Committee

  • Donna Gillette
  • Tom Hoegel
  • Ordetta Hovland
  • Clayton Johnson (chair)
  • Gene Palmer
  • David Sandwisch
  • Rich Teed

What Our Long Range Plan Says about Facility Needs

  • Inspiring, comfortable worship facilities
  • Rooms for up to ten simultaneous "discipling events"
  • Continued growth and quality of our school
  • A spacious gathering place for meals and events
  • Solutions to "secondary needs" including nursery, parking, restrooms

Planning Phases

Time line of the planning process

Our Input Process

(February - June 1999)
  • Comprehensive snapshot of current usage of our facility
  • Projection of future facility use
  • Interviews with every ministry and program
  • Conversations with staff members
  • Feedback and ideas from the congregation

Our "Wish List" Resulting from our input process and the Long Range Plan

  • Large multiple-use space
  • Meeting rooms and classrooms
  • Youth center
  • Senior center
  • Outdoor congregational space
  • Church and school office space
  • Library
  • Multimedia production room
  • Adequate, convenient restrooms
  • Storage
  • Electrical and mechanical upgrades

Facility Maps

Today
Master Plan

Questions You Might Ask...

  • Should we stay on this property?
  • Do we have enough parking to support our programs?
  • How would this space be divided and used?
  • Allocation of cost and space between church and school?
  • How much will the expansion cost?
  • How would we pay for it?
  • When will construction start?
  • When will it be finished?
  • How will we operate during the construction?

Facility Planning Forum Meetings

Your chance to hear more about the plan, ask questions, provide feedback is the First Sunday of every month at 10:00 am
  • February 6, 2000
  • March 5, 2000
  • April 2, 2000
  • May 7, 2000

You can click here to see questions that have already been asked.

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Last updated January 15, 2008