Enhancing Church Facilities for Community Accessibility and Engagement
Improve church facilities for better accessibility, restrooms, meeting spaces, and aesthetic enhancements. Timeline of upgrades and renovations approved by the Vestry and congregation participation in the planning process.
Enhancing Church Facilities for Community Accessibility and Engagement
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Structural • Better accessibility to parlor and church level from the Parish Hall. • More restrooms and more accessible restrooms near church for mobility impaired members of the church • Better access to upstairs level (youth activities, choir room, prayer room, Sunday School rooms, children’s chapel) • Access to one area, access to everything
Program and Program Support • Larger fellowship space. • More and more accessible meeting and class room space • More office space for staff and visitor reception area • Adult Education space separate from kitchen/fellowship area • Better access to nursery from the church and less access to nursery from outside
Aesthetics • Need a more obvious outside entrance to our fellowship and administrative areas • Renovate the stairwell leading to the Godly Play Room and Children’s Chapel. • Better restrooms upstairs in children, youth, and music program areas • Program/Fellowship building with same beauty as iconic church building
Scope • Parish House Building • Parlor • Sharp Room • Vesting Room and Sacristy • Archives, Chapel, Godly Play, • Plasek Building • Parish Hall • Upper Room, Choir Room, Classrooms, • Offices
Timeline 8/16 Ad Hoc Building Committee 9/17 Building Committee Formed 3/18 Issued report and recommendation 5/18- Vestry accepted the recommendation 2018 Work on Bell Tower April 2019- Vestry Approved additional funds for master planning process
Timeline August 18- Congregational Forum- Tour and evaluate facilities September 14- Design Retreat Workshop