Weblog of the PoP Building Committee activities

Attending: Tom Kettler, Mary Delaney, Jim McKenna, Neil Howard

Tom discussed some historical background and the purpose of the Building Committee, specifically how it differs from the Property Committee (whose charter was distributed). Tom will get the Building Committee Charter to each of us before our next meeting.

Meetings are 4th Tuesday at 7:30pm. Next meeting is 22 September 2009.

We brainstormed a series of questions to be used with our ministry teams and in an open forum and with our pastors. The questions are intended to develop any requirements (current or future) for building space. We intend to refine this list and start talking to PoP ministry team leaders, CC, pastors and anyone else with an interest to see if any significant space needs arise. We hope to be able to have a “needs” report for the Church Council by the end of the year.

Here is the list of questions we came up with. We will finalize it at our September meeting. Remember these are brainstormed questions; we did not judge them, just wrote them down:

1. What is it that makes us feel we need some more space?
2. In what way is you ministry limited by our current space?
3. What would make PoP a more welcoming space?
4. How can we improve our church’s visibility?
5. In what ways could our future ministries be improved by adding or changing our current space?
6. Where to you feel our/your ministry will be in 5 years?
7. What would make our space more comfortable?
8. Do you have any ideas for better utilizing the space we have outside our buildings?
9. Would any of your suggestions change if we evaluated them from an environmental perspective?

Comments from anyone are greatly appreciated