It's 2020 and we're more than halfway done!

We are grateful to enter 2020 on the downhill side of this construction project. While there have been hiccups along the way (as with any construction project), we are still on budget and on time. Here’s our board chair Todd McCavit updating the congregation on Jan. 12.

At our Church Council meeting Jan. 21, members were invited to take a tour of the space under renovation. Members remarked joyfully about how open and full of light the new spaces are, and how the orientation in many of these spaces has completely changed. Everyone is eager to see the finished product!

Over the last 30 years, the vision for FirstChurch has continued to evolve right alongside the city in which it sits. Our members’ faithful generosity has provided for significant and needed updates to our church building, allowing us to continue to serve our neighbors with love and compassion.  Now we’re facing new space needs and challenges; as we sit in this place in time, in our city, in our society, we’re compelled to consider them in a different way. If we are here to grow disciples, connect communities and serve the world, it is imperative that we extend the table into the next generation. We must pour into our young people not just so they can grow, but so they can thrive.

As our world changes, so must how we envision our place in it, both literally and figuratively – how do we ensure that our space within these walls equips us to grow and serve outside of them?

This capital campaign is about more than new classrooms and heating and cooling systems and alternative meeting space.  This is an opportunity for a re-imagining of what it means to love and serve like Christ, and to be living examples of God’s presence and grace in the world.  This is the time to enact a faith that calls us out of this space and into our world, reminding us of who we are and how we care – which means so much to a world needing Faith Beyond Walls.