Of Special Projects and Parking Lots

After so many years of seeing God work generously through his people at Crossroads I should not be surprised, but I still marvel at the faithful, consistent, and generous giving of this congregation. And that without a collection in the service! 

Many will be aware that we initiated a low key special giving project in May 2007. We hoped for $250,000 to be used toward some parking and lighting improvements, replacement of one of our four aging rooftop HVAC units, and some miscellaneous   improvements that need to be done around our entries. We also needed some funds to create a new facilities master plan.  Anything above that would go towards paying down our line of credit that remains after our move into the Eastgate facility.  

So, what happened?

I’ll leave the detailed accounting to the Business Administrator, but this short-term special giving project will wrap up on May 1 and we have received just under $250,000 through the end of March.

And, what got done?

We actually added HVAC capacity made some repairs to one of the rooftop units. The Fireside Room is now much more comfortable and controlled, as is the foyer and the youth room. The damaged lighting in the parking lot was repaired, and the most significant trouble spots in the parking lot were patched and repaired. We also began the process of designing new covered entries, but decided to hold off on constructing  them when we dug into the initial master plan work … a greater opportunity presented itself and we chose to change the scope of our work to focus on that. More on the that in my next post.

Oh yeah, as for our line of credit, between extremely generous contributions to the general fund, and some under-spending in our staffing and programs, we were able to make a significant “payment” on the line of credit too.