Facilities Update: Phase 2 Begins Soon!

Our Phase 1 facilities improvements have been so well received! The coffee station and our café tables, inside and outside, and our new furniture near the sanctuary have been lovely gathering spaces for socializing. Our office spaces are much more attractive and comfortable for the church staff and the conference room is busy, busy. The new mission space behind the sanctuary, with open shelves and drawers for your donations, is attractive and convenient for everyone. We all look forward to the spring

blooms in our new landscape areas, also.

I hope that everyone will be just as excited about Phase 2. The Session has approved construction in the areas of our nursery, music rooms and children’s classrooms. And best of all, we will be able to remodel our men’s and women’s restrooms near the sanctuary, giving us more handicap-accessible stalls and all new tile, etc! The choir, handbell choir and our new music director will have an area designed just for them and their equipment, our children’s classrooms will be all-new and thoughtfully designed and our nursery will be closer to the sanctuary. Along with those improvements, the Day School will gain better security and lovely redesigned bathroom space also.

As the construction takes place, there will be some predictable construction-related turmoil during the summer, but we hope to keep it to a minimum. The construction company is the same one that did Phase 1 and they were very good partners in limiting the confusion. We expect the work to be done from May to August, so that the Day School spaces and our classrooms are ready for the school year and the Sunday School year to begin. Get ready, here we go!

Janet Nebrig, Co-Chair, Facilities Assessment Team