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Verse for 2012, “as for me and my household, we will serve
the LORD." (Joshua
24:15, NIV) ) Dear reader, People have asked me what’s going on with the hospital and when things will be completed, to which I usually respond with a blank look. I have now spoken to someone from the PCT and one of the contractors and we now have some idea of a timetable. A modified version of one of these drawings emerged as people’s favourite. The idea being that the Church building would be a focal point of the new development. From the hospital’s point of view it is old and so ties the site to its past and distinctive. From the Church’s point of view, the development opens us up whilst keeping a distinct boundary. What we hope from this is that the Church will become more visible and less hidden away. There will be lots of people walking past our back door between the hospital and the pharmacy. Also, at the moment people can freely walk into our grounds hidden from site by the wall, allowing for some degree of mischief. The new plans will mean this area will be relatively well lit and in view. This generally improves security. start the work around the Church grounds in a month or twos time. It will be done in phases so that there will always be access to Church. We have given the contractors a typical weekly time table so they know what normally happens and some key future dates (e.g. a couple of weddings) which they will be mindful of and work around. They aim for the hospital itself to open its doors to the public in July this year. and had asked the Church family, some of whom remember these two Christian women, what might be a fitting tribute to them. The big thing that came back would be some re-ordering of the Church building. The PCC met with an architect who had some drawings to show us, we hope to have some up in the Church lounge for you to see soon. The basic idea is to extend the existing lounge forward with the ability to have it as one big hall space, or two lounge spaces, with another room over the extended area (for structural reasons it is likely to be too expensive to build over the existing lounge) and some extra storage. Also with the new hospital car park, the back door becomes the most obvious way in and we hope to make this a more attractive area. At the same time there has been the desire for a while to do the high level plaster work and re-wiring. It makes sense to do all of this at once. We probably have about half of the money needed to do this. happen. Of course, although we associate any Church with the building, we know that the Church is the people. Therefore we are concerned with that building project and don’t want all our energies lost in a building that won’t last into eternity. However, we must use the resources God has given us, e.g. a building, to serve that end of building his Church. Yours |
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