New Building Update 2/7/20

While we continue to wait for better temps and less water in the ground, our church is quite busy preparing for the move. Our Legacy team is collecting photographs of our history, and looking into the village and county archives to best tell the story of our church (which began in 1833!). Our Publicity team is working on some new signage that you should see around town soon, and our church is praying for the project.

The worksite is still too cold and wet to do foundation and frame, but some great things have been getting done underground. If you look really hard you might spot evidence of the newly installed lift-station (extremely important for the functioning of our awesome new bathrooms) somewhere among all the snow, but all the rest of the work that has been done recently is underground.

One of the top questions we get asked concerning our shift in location has to do with some of the beautiful artwork in our church. The old church at 102 S Seminary has some incredibly beautiful stained glass. And the good news is, a lot of it is going with us!

The south-facing window of the current location features an image from the book of Revelation. It comes from the Letter to Laodicea in chapter 3 (currently being studied in our Senior’s Bible Study on Tuesday mornings at 10)

Our Building Committee and Trustees are soon to begin the first part of our plan for the stained glass. It will involve the removal of several large panels so that they can be prepared for display in the new building. The beauty of our church’s windows will be coming with us, and the hope is that some of the stained glass can be ready to display on opening day! We are committed to preserving our history and our church’s story in this move and we are glad to be carrying these beautiful pieces of artwork with us.