Our Needs
Fellowship, Activity, & Meeting Space Improvements
Core Church Value: to develop and maintain a strong sense of community. Building relationships with one another is increasingly difficult due to our growing membership and our lack of dedicated, large group fellowship, activity, and learning space.
Large Group Fellowship & Activity Space
- The sanctuary is our only large group activity space. It is time consuming and burdensome for staff and volunteers to regularly rearrange it for different activities and then reset it for worship.
- These constant transitions cause unnecessary wear and tear on our tables, chairs, and worship furnishings.
- It is often inconvenient and sometimes impossible to hold large events, especially those that we would like to hold in conjunction with worship.
- Essential gatherings like after-service fellowship, breakfasts, brunches, wedding receptions, and funeral luncheons must be held in our undersized and highly trafficked gathering area or even off-site.
- We do not have the space to easily host youth activities, community meals, Vacation Bible School, the Women's Christmas Luncheon, Trunk or Treat, New Member classes, teacher training, outreach events, or service activities.
- We do not have enough space for community use or rentals.
- We really need indoor play space for our preschool, middle school, and high school activities, especially on inclement weather days.
Expanded, Dividable Meeting Space
- Small groups must constantly compete with each other for our limited number of meeting rooms.
- It is difficult to launch new small group ministries because there is not enough space for them to meet.
Larger, Full-Service Kitchen
We need a large kitchen near the fellowship space. Without this we cannot effectively prepare and serve food for large social events and activities including community dinners, funeral meals, and weddings.
Enhanced Worship Space
Church Goal: to enrich our worship experience. Our desire to share and expand our faith community through worship is hindered because service participants often find themselves distracted by space, sightline, audio, and lighting concerns.
A Larger, Level Stage Platform
- Our small stage platform limits our pastors and worship leaders. They cannot concentrate on their message when they must continuously watch their steps while moving around.
- Our sacred space is restricted by instruments and worship supplies crowded around the altar. Also, when families must carefully squeeze next to the Pastor at the baptismal font, this holy experience is diminished.
- Music is vital to our worship experience, but our musicians' space is much too small. Their movements, ability to hear each other, and room for singers and instruments is very limited.
- We have no choir or bell choir space so musicians must cram together at floor level, and we often have to remove worship seating to accommodate them.
Expanded Seating Space
- We lack enough seating for our worship participants, especially on the busiest worship days and times.
- Seating guests in the Gathering Area, where it is difficult to see and feel a part of the service, doesn’t create a welcoming environment for worshipers.
Improved Audio-Visual System
- Our unreliable audio system constantly diminishes our worship experience by being too loud, too quiet, causing feedback, or having background noise.
- Poor visuals from our 20-year-old projector system negatively impact participant's service engagement because they cannot see what is displayed.
- For our online viewers, our camera placement makes our services less engaging than they should be. This is especially troubling when our desire is to reach out and build community outside our church.
Improved Lighting System
Our lighting system does not enhance our services because we cannot properly light our stage or general seating areas. The fixtures also are not energy-efficient or cost-effective.