Grace Lutheran-Growing With Grace Building Campaign ~ 1983
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The Council of Grace Lutheran Church organized the F.U.N. (Facilities Use and Needs) Committee in January 1983.
FUN Committee Expectations:
- Grace Congregation Programs - Worship, Sunday School, Amazing Graces, Grace House, Christian Day School, etc.
- Community Programs approved for facility use - AA, Scouts, Land Stewardship Council, Amphitheater in woods
- Investigate the current and anticipated future problems of each.
- Define the potential short and long range solutions.
- Analyze all defined potential solutions. Sketches, Layouts, Cost Estimates, Tradeoffs, Homework!! Creative Thinking!!
- Recommend a five year plan for Council action.
Identify and evaluate short and long term facilities use and needs.
Timing Expectation set by the Council:
- Committee members called by the Council - January 16, 1983
- First FUN Committee meeting to elect chairperson by February 16, 1983
- Interim reports to Council - mid-March and mid-April 1983
- Final report and recommendations to Council - mid-May 1983
Committee members working on the project:
- Roberta Danielson - Long Range Planning
- Dave Albee - Grace House
- Paul Lamoreaux - Property Committee
- Leon Moser - Parish Education Committee
- Barbara Schaeffer - Worship Committee
- Dan Sears - Council at Large
- Don Torgerson Grace Lutheran Church Member at Large
- Total Youth Enrollment - 146
- Average Total Attendance, Youth and Adult - 132
- Loss of space to Grace House Apartments
- Narthex is very difficult location for any class
- Fellowship Hall noise level is too high
- Some classrooms are overcrowded [8th grade - 16 enrolled & 6th grade - 13 enrolled]
- Traffic through and in old kitchen is disruptive - partitions inadequate
- Off-site classes are undesirable to some parents - children out of class at 10 AM
- Library usage is very poor due in part to office and classroom location
- No current space available for media center recommended by Long Range Planning
The first FUN Committee meeting was held on February 3, 1983. The identified issues and problems and determined and a survey of current facility usage:
Tentative List of Recommendations from the FUN Committee - March 2, 1983
- Encourage greater use of sanctuary space.
- Add folding doors for each wing making 2 classes on each side
- Add folding door in back room making 2 new classes
- Remove hymnal racks in the "often to be moved" rows
- Build upstairs space (old chancel) for youth
- Maintain as much floor space as possible for Fellowship Hall
- Reduce storage to a minimum
- Add folding doors for classrooms making 3 classes
- Get rid of the platform - recover it for use in the other church
- Re-claim Hinkley and quilts
- Add two-story subdivision
- Add floor to ceiling partitions
- Relocate pastor study and office
- Finish basement room
- Build new service center wing
- "L" shaped addition around the courtyard
- Main level a existing floor level with a floor level below and some "loft" space
- Add class/meeting rooms, nursery, offices, Grace House quarters, toddler room, storage
- Gravel more of the already cleared parking lot
- Improve the landscape and screen plant at neighbors
- Long Range
- Multipurpose classroom/community room in education wing
- Excavate and finish basement under sanctuary
From the Pastor
The preliminaries have been accomplished - planning, committees, architects renderings, congregation meetings. It has been exciting, fun, but now the rubber hits the road. Changing votes into dollars ought to be a natural progression, i.e., when we voted to build, we voted to back up our votes with our financial commitments.
I'm confident that we will all respond positively to this opportunity for additional giving. $120,000 is a lot of money, but it is not unreasonable for the people of God.
The bottom line is not dollars but PEOPLE.
We will need the total participation of each and every member of the congregation. We need you! We need your money. That is neither a demand or a request, but an offer to share in meaningful ministry. e are depending on each other to respond affirmatively and generously.
We are really asking you to re-negotiate and re-priortize the way you budget your income in order to share further in this opportunity and privilege to build to Kingdom of God through Grace Congregation.
Together we GROW WITH GRACE.
Pastor Ken Tonnesen
Our Needs
Grace Lutheran Congregation has grown from 170 to 416 baptized members during the past ten years.
We have outgrown our present facility. Our Narthex, Sunday School area, Nursery and Sanctuary are filled to capacity every Sunday. Our adult Sunday School class has been meeting away from the church for over a year; our young people enrolled in Sunday School are being taught under noisy, overcrowded conditions. These conditions, i.e., lack of space, inhibit our total ministry.
Therefore
FACILITY TO ACCOMODATE OUR
GROWING CONGREGATION AND MINISTRY.
We Need
a place to worship
a place to learn
a place for fellowship
and a BASE from which to serve
the community as servants of our Lord.
Our Plan
Architect's Drawing
Our Mission
As Christ clearly tells us,
we must serve the strangers, the hungry,
the hurting and the disadvantaged.
Therefore the Mission Objective
of Grace Lutheran Church is:
To seek the fullness of life in Christ
Through increaseing our ministry
to the specific need of the people
in our community, congregatrion and world.
Our Goal
Our immedaite goal is to raise $120,000 over three years in pledges from the congregation. Each one to give according to his or her ability. The decision is yours - only you know how richly you have been blessed.
Your pledge is the key to GROWING WITH GRACE
Our Financing
| Construction | $250,000 |
| Architect Fees | 21,000 |
| Furniture/Modifications | 39,000 |
| Grounds/Parking | 20,000 |
| Closing Costs/ Construction Interest |
28,000 |
Approximately 80% of this cost will be financed trhough a 20 year mortgate loan. Our ability to provide building funds and carry this debt hinges on our GROWING WITH GRACE income.
PROJECTED "GROWING WITH GRACE" INCOME
| 1978 (7 months) |
1979 | 1980 | 1981 (5 months) |
| $25,000 | $40,000 | $40,000 | $15,000 |
Groundbreaking date will be set as soon as our pledging is complete.
- One week's gross family income each year for three years.
- 2% of gross annual family income each year for three years.
- One dollar per day per family each year for three years ($7/week or $30.33/month or $365/year).
We need to start giving in June 1978. three suggested ways are: