Historical Documents 2000-2005

2005 – The PoP Building Master Plan, the Besecker Youth Center (BYC) Plan and Construction

From 2003 to 2005 Prince of Peace planned and constructed a modular building on our property to provide Sunday School classroom education space. The building, dedicated on April 17, 2005 is named the Besecker Youth Center, after our founding pastor, Samuel L. Besecker. It is know informally as “The BYC.” The BYC Building Committee presentation to the congregation from the spring 2004 time frame is available for review. Also discovered is a diagram of the multiphase plan developed for future building expansion on our site. The BYC was Phase 1 of this multi-phase plan. All five phases of the Master Plan are described in a slide show entitled Growing Prince of Peace which was created by Jim Bostrom in 2004.

For those interested in details of the BYC construction effort from July 2005 to April 2005, an annotated pictorial history of the construction phase is available.

2004

Back in 2004 Peter Norgren, the staff architect of the ELCA visited Prince of Peace and made up drawings of a couple of possible building expansion concepts. Here is Peter’s drawing.

2000

In 2000 we had a Capital Fund (a.k.a. Building Fund) drive which ended up raising about $135,000 over 3 years for new construction. Below are some of the presentations and drawings used in that campaign.

A New Educational Wing for Prince of Peace (Proposal) – This document is a detailed proposal for new building which was created by the PoP Building Committee in 1999-2000. Even though it is out of date, it makes interesting reading to see the level of detail and specificity of the work which was done to plan for the future space needs of the congregation.

Information Meeting Presentation – This was the slide show used to present the new building proposal to the congregation back in 2000.

Conceptual renderings of a possible building expansion. These images were used during the 2000 Capital Fund campaign.