Happy Birthday Building Committee!

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As of this month your Building Committee has been hard at work for a year (how time flies when you are having fun). Over the last two months, December and January, we have had a series of meeting with fellowship groups to review our conceptual design and complete the next phase called Schematic Design. This will lead to our submitting a site plan architectural review to the city of Lafayette in late February.

The building committee and our project architect, Rich Keilman, met and gathered design input from the following:

• Sanctuary: Ministers, acoustic engineer, Tad Koriath, Deborah Mensch. Set up for Sunday services, dais size & shape, choir location, musician location, seating, flow in and out, audio and video systems,

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• Administrative & Minister’s office wing: Ministers, Carol Pranschke (office manager) and staff, De Anna Hoyle. Private & open space offices, location of offices, size or offices, safety considerations, mini-kitchen, 

• School of Spirit wing: De Anna Hoyle & SOS staff, minister. Size and layout of meeting rooms, placement and number of doors, storage, multi-use of rooms, room partitions, and room design for toddlers,

• Hospitality (kitchen): Millie Montgomery, Rosemary Arp, Mary Gibb. Social hall functions, kitchen layout, kitchen doors, kitchen work space, location of welcoming table, coat closet, various social hall uses, flow of people into services and then to coffee social time,

• Site Planning: Building committee members, landscape designer, and civil engineer. Landscape design, storm water flow & retention, parking lot, location of the barn & trash bins.

In addition to these meetings we have received input from others via email, hallway discussions, and phone calls. Thanks to all who participated in these sessions and provided the committee with valuable information.

All of this information is reflected in the next evolution of our design documents that are now posted to this blog.  Larger versions are posted in the foyer of the Fellowship.  Please disregard earlier iterations.