A new kitchen in the works

Last night our kitchen committee met with a designer from UBS to talk about our new kitchen. The ladies of the church have been asking us to consider this project for years. We started to get serious about it four or five years ago. Rodney Green helped us get some seed money by giving us a roast beef dinner as a fund raiser in honor of former Trustee Ed Regets. That put over $3,000 in the pot. We have also received a few other memorial gifts to build the fund.

We put our plans aside for the last three years while we explored the possibilities of a more permanent relationship with Central Baptist that included a suggestion of merging the two congregations. When Pastor Sheldon Keller left the talks broke down. We have mutually decided to find ways to work together while pursuing our own mission in the city. That opened the door for this project to move to the front burner.

We hope that we will have some plans to look at in the next few months. The plans can be modified and changed to suit our purposes. Once we have a good set of plans, we will then begin the fund raising in earnest. The Trustees will determine how much money we need to raise and also whether there are other projects that should be wrapped into the campaign.

Sometime next fall we may be going to the congregation asking for your help. We will be looking for the money needed to make the dream a reality. I hope if you are reading this you will think about what part you can play in the campaign. God has blessed us and we can pass on that blessing. If you have been through the old kitchen, you will know how nice a new one will be and how it will add to the ministry of the church.

Cal