Dedication

In 1999, my church first presented a plan to expand our building, a plan that would have been OK, but did not garner enough support to pass and fell by the way side. This led to a much better expansion project being designed, one that was passed in 2001, one we broke ground on in 2004 and one that was dedicated today.

While the object of a church isn't a cool building, I have to say this new project is really, really nice. We now have one main entrance that is a straight hallway that looks all the way down to the Narthex and straight through the sanctuary to the stained glass front of the church. We have a huge new multipurpose room ideal for our two annual church dinners and other special events, better office facilities and nicely remodeled old facilities that now look bright and cheerful. Thanks to the strict building code of Creve Coeur, the expansion also ties very nicely into the brick, buttressed design of the old part of the building.

I only did a few minor things to help with the project (some IT consulting and other minor stuff), but it still feels like a big, long project that finally has come to fruition by God's grace. How exciting!