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Minutes from Building Committee Meeting -
Attendees: Dave Cain, Roy Koch, Jim Nelson, Pastor Norris, Bob Tierney, Pastor Wood
1. Prayer
The meeting started with prayer for various needs of the church congregation and for the work of the Building Committee.
2. Review successes since last meeting
A review of progress to date was presented to the congregation at the July 2 meeting. Also, the congregation survey was completed.
3. Congregation Survey - Discuss results of survey.
The committee spent about two hours discussing the survey results. A total of 75 forms were filled out and returned. These results will assist the Building Committee in developing a design for the new facility. The results reviewed by the committee are posted on the Building Committee’s web site.
During the discussion it was decided to request the Advisory Group to examine the purpose and potential use for the current fellowship hall.
4. Facility Visits - How many other facilities should we visit? What facilities will we pick?
Two more facility visits will be
scheduled. Pastor Wood will contact the pastor of the Hempfield Presbyterian
Church to schedule a visit. Also, Pastor Norris will contact officials from
the
5. Creative Planning Session - CPS is on July 19. Discuss agenda for CPS.
Pastor Jeff, Tom Mowrer, and Roy Koch will meet on July 14 to finalize the agenda for the CPS. The purpose of the CPS is to gather more ideas for the new facility. Also, “brainstorming” sessions will take place to help clarify specific issues (e.g. will there be a new kitchen and, if so, what will it look like?)
6. Discuss overall plan - especially near term planning between CPS and presentation of layout to Governing Board in November.
The overall plan was presented to the committee last month and is attached to the June 14 meeting minutes. The next task if for the BC to make a layout of the new facility and present it for Governing Board (GB) review and approval. The presentation to the GB is planned for November 2003. If the GB approves the layout then an architect will be hired to further develop the layout. Pastor Wood stated that it would be valuable for the architect to make a model of the layout as part of his work.
7. Other Items
Near the end of the meeting a general discussion took place concerning the purpose and philosophy of the building program. The following points were made:
The building program should be based on the church’s reason for being. We should focus on our purpose and any new facility should be consistent with that purpose.
We should look at where we expect the church to be 25 years from now and make the building consistent with that vision.
The general purpose of the church is worship, edification, and evangelism (in that order). The building program must be in harmony with this purpose. A church building speaks to the theology of the church. We need to keep that in mind. The building needs to be on target Biblically.
The Building Committee should focus on finding God’s will. If the new facility is within God’s will then God will provide solutions to all the problems encountered by the committee.
8. Adjournment
The meeting ended at