Transformation

Our last volunteer church “work project” in California, before we moved to the Pacific Northwest about two years ago, was to serve on the Building Fund Committee of Covenant Community Church in Vacaville.

During the time we served, the parking lot and church building you see above was a large piece of “golden” grassland.

Quite a transformation has taken place.

The lone building on the property then was a small multi-purpose center that is shown to the right of the roundish tree. Church offices are also in this building.

We responded enthusiastically when asked to serve by the Pastor, John Moser. Kay Lynne was the coordinating administrator on the committee, and I helped with campaign design work and print communications. The experience was extremely rewarding for both of us.

This was the theme/logo our committee came up with for the campaign (it took a bit of trickery to get the original Publisher file to upload to this site):

God blessed our committee efforts, as we were able to garner member faith commitments totaling just about $400,000 back in March of 2004 – and since then the goal has increased to nearly $500,000. As of now, an incredible 75% of the money has already been given to the church.

Based on the member commitments, a construction loan was obtained, and the building you see above was constructed. The congregation has been worshipping in the new edifice for almost a year now, I believe.

The new facility is a multi-purpose worship center which can be set up for worship, banquets, basketball or other recreational activities, as needed. It has a full kitchen and several educational classrooms.

Some day a building that will serve as just a worship sanctuary will be erected on the land, according to the master plan, and from then on this building will function as a multi-purpose/educational facility only.

Kay Lynne and I had not seen the building until our visit down there at the beginning of this month, as we moved away from there a few months before construction began. We wished we could have been there for a worship service, but our schedule did not permit it this time. We look forward to that in the future.