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STAINED GLASS TO UNDERGO REPAIRS
All the windows in our sanctuary will undergo substantial maintenance and
repairs in the next five months. By the time we reach Rally Day (September 14) all work should be completed.
Window repairs ($840) should be finished by mid-June. The larger maintenance project ($7,260) will
be done entirely during August. Kasmark and Marshall, a firm which has worked
exclusively on our stained glass windows since 1950, has been given the contract. Neither project will
preclude or inhibit worship in the sanctuary.
MAJOR WORK ON
STEEPLES The
Property Committee has reviewed bids for work needed on our steeples. The lower steeple has more urgent
problems, evidenced by water damage to parts of the interior of the building. That work will cost in excess
of $68,000. The bell tower is in better shape, but it too needs at least $22,000 in exterior repair.
Our Session sent both projects to the Stewardship and Finance Committee in the hope that those elders can develop a
funding strategy, discerning in the process if we can do the projects at all.
MONTANA 2009
There’s a very
good chance we will send a second contingent to Wolfe Point , Montana in 2009, three years after we held a week-long mission trip there
with our youth groups. Session members and others in the church are working on plans and possibilities,
but at this point nothing has been officially approved by Session. If the trip does take place, it looks
as though we will board trains, not planes, and the train will take our people right to the Wolfe Point station. We believe
the trip will be limited to 40 persons, and it will probably occur in August. We’ll give you more
details once plans are finalized.
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