The conclusion of this school year (last day of school is Friday June 12th) marks our second school year of ministry in our new building. Praise God for all that He has done during our short time here in this community. When we first moved into the building in January of 2007, only the office section of the building was usable. Over time, the all-purpose room and the community technology center were finished. In June of 2007 we finished 1 of the 6 apartments located on the 2nd floor of our building (it has been home of the Blodgett family ever since).
We still need to finish the other 5 apartments as well as the remaining storefront on the first floor. The vision for the last storefront is to transform it into a community cafe, that will be open to adults in the morning and then be used as additional youth programming space in the afternoon and evening hours. The vision for the unfinished apartments is to create affordable housing (4 units) and staff housing/office use space (2 units).
Praise the Lord, we recently were able to get our zoning changes finalized at City Hall. This enables us to secure our building permits and move forward with the above mentioned rehab projects. However, what that means is that we are now in the position to raise the funds necessary to complete the project. The financial need is $150,000. Please pray with us that God would provide for this need!! The completion of the building would be a huge blessing as we enter into our 3rd school year of ministry here in the fall.
Pictures: the top picture is the inside of the unfinished storefront, the 2nd picture is the outside, the 3rd picture is a view of our building off of 61st St
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