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Our congregation is rapidly increasing. The present building is barely adequate for our needs now, the existing structure, despite its good appearance due to remodeling, is one hundred years old. Besides this, there are no parking areas. It is impossible for this small, old building to accommodate all of the existing Church activities.
- An Eight acre land was purchased on April 2, 1999 to be the site of the future Church. We are using the land temporarily for outdoor Church activities and Saturday liturgies.
- When we purchased the land, there was a little shack used as a fruit-stand which we remodeled in 2000 to a small chapel, able to accommodate 50 parishioners.
- In just two years (February 2002), the church paid off the mortgage of the new land.
- In the summer of 2005, the church finished the stages of having the rendering of its new project, got the land surveyed by the “Scituate Surveyors”, and contacted “RGB Architects” to take over all the design of the new project.
- From 2005 to 2008, the Church got all of the approvals from the Department of Environmental Management Board of Health, the Department of Transportation, the City Planning Department, and the City Zoning Board for the designed Church.
- In the end of 2008, the Church chose E. Turycon to be the construction manager out of the five competitor companies.
- In February 2009, the Church got the final cost for its new building for $7,981,000.
- From 1989 to the current date, the Church congregation increased from 80 families to 180 families (about 500 people) and still rising. We expect that this number will be doubled after building its new facility because of its adequate services; parking, Sunday School classes,
youth outdoor & indoor activities, adult spiritual & social rooms, community services, etc.
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