Who first told you about the Lord? Was it a pastor, parent, a teacher a friend? We honor their love to us not just by calling their faces to mind, but by remembering what they taught us. What was it that melted our hearts of stone? They taught us the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord.
Look what he did for Old Testament Israel. He parted the waters of the Red Sea, provided manna from heaven, and brought the walls of Jericho crashing down. Each praiseworthy deed of the Lord was pointing to a deed more praiseworthy than all the rest. When the time was right, God sent his Son in the flesh: one sacrifice for every sinner who has ever lived.
How can we help but praise him? How can we help but tell the next generation his praiseworthy deeds?
We've finished our three year Built on the Rock program, which gave us a good start on funding the first phase of our building program, a new ministry center (see building program history).
Our ministry center is and continues to be a huge help for our gospel ministry and mission work: more classrooms, more outreach space, administration space.
Our sights are set on the second phase of building, a new narthex (see below), 1800 square feet for gathering before and after worship. This space will provide a secure, easily accessible link between the ministry center and our worship space.
Tell the Next Generation is a three year plan to help us get ahead on our monthly payments so that we can get started sooner on constructing our new narthex. Our goal is $1.2M over the next three years above and beyond our regular church offerings. The plan's name reminds us of why we're doing it. In this space, at this location, with opportunities the Lord is providing: We will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord.
$1.2M in actual payments puts us $300K ahead of required payments and saves us $450K of draws we were going to make from current funds, for a net total of $750K toward Phase 2.
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Entrance into the New Narthex
Pictured here is our architect's rendering of the proposed entrance into the new narthex as viewed from Chicago St. A graded parking area leading up to the entrance will provide disabled persons better proximity and accessibility to our worship space without having to navigate a flight of steps.
PROGRAM HISTORY
The Tell the Next Generation plan is part of a program called TTF (Today, Tomorrow, the Future). View a summary timeline of all of our building efforts and find out more about each project along the way.
PROJECT BLOG
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