Building for the Future
This is an exciting and challenging time for the College Church. Our auditorium is full each Sunday. Many of our adult classes are full and need additional space. The facility for our university students is very crowded and outdated. We obviously need additional parking.
Our Discipling 3000 strategic plan calls for us to consider expansion that would allow us to meet these challenges. Therefore, a building committee was appointed a year ago to look into possible ways to address them. I was asked to chair this committee. Other members include Roy Barnes, Sam Billingsley, Jeanne Burks, Jenny Citty, Mark Crews, Grant Fitzhugh, Rick Harper, Kent Jones, and Nick McNabb.
With the approval of our elders, an architectural firm in Memphis was hired to do a feasibility study of potential ways to accomplish our goals. Completed in August, the study included a possible plan for a new auditorium east of the current Welcome Center and a possible expansion of the current auditorium to a seating capacity of 1700, with four new classrooms in front of the current nursery and the current Room 100.
The study also recommended a new facility for university students on the site of the current Rock House.
After analyzing the projected costs of all options, the building committee recommended to the elders last month that we consider expanding the current auditorium, building four new multipurpose classrooms in front of the current nursery and Room 100, as well as building new restrooms and new stairwells for the balcony.
We also recommended that we build a new facility of about 4300 ft.² for university students on the site of the current Rock House. Having already purchased the house next to that property, we have adequate space for the new facility.
The cost of the classrooms and auditorium revisions would be $4.7 million, and the cost for the College Ministry building would be $1.1 million.
We invite you to go to the College Church website and view the plans that have been developed to this point. You will also find there a video of the November 2nd congregational meeting about this project.
Most importantly, we invite your input. You may share your thoughts with any member of the building committee or with an elder. Or you can email me at burks@harding.edu.
Our Discipling 3000 strategic plan calls for us to consider expansion that would allow us to meet these challenges. Therefore, a building committee was appointed a year ago to look into possible ways to address them. I was asked to chair this committee. Other members include Roy Barnes, Sam Billingsley, Jeanne Burks, Jenny Citty, Mark Crews, Grant Fitzhugh, Rick Harper, Kent Jones, and Nick McNabb.
With the approval of our elders, an architectural firm in Memphis was hired to do a feasibility study of potential ways to accomplish our goals. Completed in August, the study included a possible plan for a new auditorium east of the current Welcome Center and a possible expansion of the current auditorium to a seating capacity of 1700, with four new classrooms in front of the current nursery and the current Room 100.
The study also recommended a new facility for university students on the site of the current Rock House.
After analyzing the projected costs of all options, the building committee recommended to the elders last month that we consider expanding the current auditorium, building four new multipurpose classrooms in front of the current nursery and Room 100, as well as building new restrooms and new stairwells for the balcony.
We also recommended that we build a new facility of about 4300 ft.² for university students on the site of the current Rock House. Having already purchased the house next to that property, we have adequate space for the new facility.
The cost of the classrooms and auditorium revisions would be $4.7 million, and the cost for the College Ministry building would be $1.1 million.
We invite you to go to the College Church website and view the plans that have been developed to this point. You will also find there a video of the November 2nd congregational meeting about this project.
Most importantly, we invite your input. You may share your thoughts with any member of the building committee or with an elder. Or you can email me at burks@harding.edu.
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