Church Stage Update

Well how time flies, 6 years ago we were blessed with this beautiful building so our church could finally have a stable meeting place.  Now after many church auctions, baptisms, weddings, the finish of our building campaign and hundreds of events we truly as a church feel at home.  In that time we have en-devoured to be good stewards of the building by making it a historical landmark, fixing much of the roof, improving the building systems and making minor modification to better suit our congregation.  In all this documenting the work hasn't really been much of a priority.  I for one completely forgot about this blog... but we have done so much I wanted to put up a few posts to highlight the efforts of the congregation and present more opportunities for future work.

First up is our improved stage

Initial work began in 2009 after Steve Keyser our 'church architect' came up with a concept to make the stage bigger http://cityregion.blogspot.com/2008/03/stage-upgrade.html...

The prior building owners had such a puny stage and we needed more room... not to mention our own baptistry;) (why use a portable baptistery when our church is no longer 'gipsy').  So after a few designs

We came up with a design that best utilized the space at hand...

This obviously is missing the stairs of the initial design... they were deemed 'Phase 2'.  We began the construction which involved some demo of the old stage 

and building out of the frame of the new stage. 

During construction we found various building features weren't really even, straight, or level... such things I am finding to be true of this old building.  Things always take longer than expected but the new stage not only gives us more room for our singers but it also has a built in baptistery, a place for our audio connectors to hide and a few electrical outlets.

Many people were involved in this improvement: Tony Fassbind, Paul Marcella, Felipe Bouroncle, Scott Lewis, Jay Kelly, and others who I am afraid I have forgotten in the 4 years since.  It is a beautiful addition that blends in so well few people remember it not being original.