Phase 2, Excitement, and Ministry Ponderings

One of the things that becomes more clear is that–even with just this first phase–we will have more space than we currently have in all three buildings combined. Our current site contains about 27,000 square feet, while the new Phase 1 building holds 33,000 square feet.

You’ll be hearing more in coming months from members of our building team about hopes to move immediately to construction of phase 2 once we move into Phase 1. When Phase 2 is completed, it will add another 19,000 square feet of classroom and office space, giving us almost twice the square footage as available at our current site.

So . . . as we began to say several years ago (and then stopped saying when the project encountered delays) the excitement is building!

Along with the growing excitement, though, comes the realization of the many more opportunities for ministry our new facility will make possible. Discussions are heating up about providing things like day care, after school ministries, sports leagues, and other community outreach.

At the same time, we’re becoming increasingly aware of the need for more internal ministry teams to do things like provide hospitality in the parking lot (which is BIG — more than 3 times as much parking as we have on-site currently!), greeters, and teams to set up and take down 600+ chairs every weekend to transform the multi-purpose room into a spiritual space for worship.

I hope you are beginning to catch the excitement (it is infectious). But I also hope you are prayerfully seeking to discern where God is leading you to be in ministry–both by inviting friends and neighbors to experience God’s love through Glen Mar (a whole lot easier to do once we have more space, but we need to begin now!) and by considering what God may be calling you to do as part of the new ministries required and made possible by our new facility.

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