Hey everyone,
Just a reminder that we had a meeting yesterday (Oct 26) to update everyone on our planned move. For those of you who could not be there yesterday, here is the information we shared.
A few months ago our church voted unanimously to change our budget and to move to this new location across the street. Our budget is working for us and that has proven to be a good change. As far at the move goes, we had made an arrangement with the owner's contractor to pull the permits for us and we would do the necessary labor to make the building workable for us. At first this seemed extremely reasonable, as our doing the work would make the price for the units very nice for us.
Over the following weeks we took the steps necessary. We had drawings made and presented them to the owner's contractor. This is when the contractor told us that he could NOT pull the permits for us to do the work, even though that had been our agreement. At that point there was little we could do other than find a contractor who would help us.
We talked to several people, and finally found the necessary licensed commercial contractor. He gave us a price of around $12,000 to do the necessary labor. He explained that the tasks we thought would be fairly simple were actually going to be pretty difficult.
Unfortunately, right now that kind of cost is beyond our church's means. Beside this, the economical struggles we are seeing on the news are hitting many of our members very hard. This has also affected our weekly offering. We are not worried about this, but it does mean that moving to a new location is not possible at this time.
The plan of our leadership is to continue where we are for 3-6 months, and reevaluate our options. Until then, we are going to do everything we can to make our church successful at our current location. As Nathan told me the other day, it won't be long until we need to move to two services, as we have grown so much! And we have some events planned over the holidays that I think will draw a lot of attention to our church.
I see this as a positive thing, and many made positive statements at our meeting. Our leadership is going to be following up with everyone to get those lists of personal contacts to invite. Be thinking that direction, if you would!
Thanks!
Jason
