Building: Modesto FM

UPDATE

OUR PATIENCE AND GOD’S TIMING

We have scheduled a Ground Breaking Celebration for Sunday March 25, 2012, following our morning worship. Morning worship begins at 9:30 a.m. and so the Ground Breaking Celebration will begin at about 11:00 a.m. I invite you to come to our worship and our ground breaking celebration and be here for this historic event. The plan, Lord willing, is to begin construction of our new multi-purpose building the day after Easter, on April 9, 2012.

God’s timing is always interesting. Right in the middle of the recession, when everyone is cutting back, we are expanding. This could only be a miracle from God. The purpose of this building is not just for new Sunday school classes, or to give us the ability to all eat together in one place, but it is to serve the community. This new building will enable us to do this in new ways and for that we are excited. We are building this for Him and for the people of our community who need Jesus. This new building will help us continue to focus on our mission of making disciples of Jesus who are learning to love God and love others as themselves.

Pastor Brock Hoyer

Giving to the Building Fund
Raised in December .......... $9,440.06	Total Raised ...... $889,301.78
Total Spent on Project .... $102,560.13	Total On Hand ... $786,741.65

THE VISION

A Multi-Purpose Building that will double our present facilities with an additional 10,000 square feet, all under one roof, which will provide increased space for more people well into the 21st century.
A gymnasium for outreach and recreational ministries.
The gymnasium would seat 350+ for larger worship gatherings, such as Easter and Christmas; fellowship ministries, such as dinners, receptions, plays and concerts; conference and community meetings, and other special events.
A new, larger kitchen with up-to-date commercial appliances and features, which will enable us to have more and larger all-church dinners and fellowship gatherings where the preparation and serving of food is required and desired.
New handicapped rest rooms. While we have a ministry to the handicapped, we presently have no rest rooms designed to meet their needs.
Several new classrooms for new Sunday school classes and additional office space for future staff in the areas of Youth and Children's Ministries.
New storage rooms.
An increase of 20 additional parking spaces.

OUR NEED

In order to facilitate our desire to be a healthy and growing church in the 21st century, our dream has been to build a multi-purpose facility that will increase our capacity for ministry. This dream was actually born in a long-range plan created in 1985 and built upon to the present day. That dream has become a focused vision for a new building that will greatly enhance our ability to conduct our present ministry programs and provide necessary space which is vital to the future growth of our church family.

OUR CONSTRUCTION PLAN

Our ground breaking will be Sunday March 11, 2012, following our worship service at about 11:00 a.m. We plan to begin construction the day after Easter, on April 9. We hope to complete phase one and occupy the building within a year after we begin construction.

We have raised about 80% of the cost for phase one to date, which will allow us to start construction. We are approved to borrow the remaining money we need to complete phase one. Phase two and three include finishing off a commercial kitchen and two classrooms and purchasing additional equipment for the new building. They will be done as we have the money to do so. The cost of phase one will be around 1.2 million dollars. Each succeeding phase is estimated to be an additional one hundred thousand dollars.