Update 5/6/19

This is an exciting picture!  During this week's Core Building Team meeting, Brad Buser got us started working through a predesign process for the church facility plan.  It was exciting for the team to start talking about specific spaces and functions for the building.

As we discussed various aspects of the church building, we drew on knowledge gained from previously going through the church's ministry plan.  It was encouraging to realize that the disciplined work of past months was bearing fruit in giving our group direction and vision for how spaces could be used well.

Here are just a handful of snippets that have stuck out to our group as we have processed the ministry plan.  We envision that a building of our own could equip us to have/do these things...

• Spaces (with more varied functions than the Greenhouse provides) that can be used all throughout the week by New Hope members and others in the community
• Sound and audio/visual equipment that can stay in place from week to week
• A designated space for our Fusion youth to meet for large group times and for smaller studies
• Multipurpose space(s) that can be setup to function in different ways for different groups/times of the week.
• Opportunities for more than one group or ministry to meet on site at a time
• Parents could have more natural opportunities to overlap with Fusion students and their events
• Designated KidsLIFE rooms that are outfitted specifically for the kids/teachers using them each week with no need to set-up and tear down
• A configuration that provides increased security for our children's ministry
• Classrooms to provide childcare options for groups meeting throughout the week
• Possibilities for community outreach and hosting events
• Space for partner ministries to meet and hold events
• A playground and inviting outdoor space to encourage connection
• A welcome/information center where it is more clear how to get connected and involved
• Comfortable spaces for small groups of people to sit and talk
• More visibility to the community and accessibility to a different pocket of Manhattan

These possibilities are exciting to us as we've prayerfully considered what makes our church unique!

Please continue to pray... 

• for guidance and discernment for this next stage of planning. 
• for volunteers to help with mowing and upkeep at the property this summer.
• that God would continue to captivate our hearts more than a building.