Providing a dedicated space for our younger children’s ministry.
We will be adding four classrooms, each with their own sink, clustered around a large group room. (Picture a smaller version of the Great Room.) There will be one main entry from the south Commons which will offer more security. The large group room will have two bathrooms. (No more taking groups of preschoolers down the hall to the main bathrooms during the service!)
Older children will move back into the Great Room classrooms.
Once the younger children are settled into the Cove, the new addition, the older kids will be able to use the Great Room classrooms that were originally intended for them. This will keep them together and allow for more large group activities on Sunday mornings. It will also mean these rooms will have greater flexibility in use throughout the week.
Improving our ministry staff work spaces
Currently, staff offices are scattered along the east side of our hallway, with 4-5 staff people sharing each room. This arrangement makes it difficult to have private conversations or focus on individual work. In the new addition, staff will be closer together but have private work spaces.
Optimizing many other spaces to be used more effectively in church-wide ministry
By moving the younger children and offices into the new addition, and older kids into the Great Room area, we will free up space for other ministry.
On Sunday mornings one of these smaller rooms will be used for nursing moms or moms with young kids, another will be reserved for kids who need a quiet room in order to participate in the kids ministry. The hall classroom will be used as a break out room for youth classes, which will still leave three other classrooms for adult ministry classes or small group use.
The Family Room will continue to be used for our High School class at 9:00 and for Nueva Vida, the Hispanic congregation at 10:30. All of these spaces will be used in multiple ways throughout the rest of the week.
