• Identify and evaluate short and long term facilities use and needs.
  • 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.

• 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

The first FUN Committee meeting was held on February 3, 1983.

Issues and Problems Identified

Sunday School facility use in 1982 :

• 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

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 no 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

OUR IMMEDIATE NEED IS A LARGER
FACILITY TO ACCOMODATE OUR
GROWING CONGREGATION ANDMINISTRY.

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 INCREASING OUR MINISTRY
TO THE SPECIFIC NEED OF THE PEOPLE
IN OUR COMMUNITY, CONGREGATION AND WORLD