Answering God's Call Building Campaign Status

• Leadership Team has pledged their commitment

• Congregation has pledged their commitment

• (08/29/07)  Building Plans are Moving Forward - The building committee has continued to work with McKnight Design Group to draw up the specifications for the new worship center and remodeling project.  The drawings are nearly 95 percent complete at this time.  Plans are to go out for bid on the project sometime around mid September.  With a successful bidding process, we would like to break ground and begin work on some of  the remodeling projects this fall. Anyone who would like to be included in the bidding process should contact Darwin Zeigler at 419-394-1685 or by email at zeigler1@bright.net

• (09/20/07) Pete Nelson, project coordinator from McKnight called me yesterday to say that the bidding documents were ready for the bidding process.  The bidding started Monday of this week and the bids are to be in to McKnight by October 4th so bidders will need to move quickly to get in an eligible bid.  They are trying to call all the people on their bid list to let them know the plans are ready.  I am going to forward the link from McKnight with the bid documents and you can open the documents to look at the specifications.  If you know someone who would like to bid on something in the project, you can forward the link to them and they can download the plans and make their bid from that package or they can contact McKnight to get paper plans.  The specifications for the audio visual and the air conditioning in the Education Building will be bid later, but are still considered part of this project.  Those specifications are not ready at this time, but McKnight wanted to get started on the bidding process as soon as possible.

  Right now we are in the waiting process as we see what kind of bids will come in on the project.  After October 4th, McKnight will put the bids together and make a recommendation to the building committee regarding price.  They think this will take around 10-14 days.  This means we may have a recommendation from McKnight to consider sometime around the middle of October.  We will need to have a meeting at that time to consider the recommendation from McKnight, then make a recommendation to the Administrative Board.  If everything is within our budget and ready to go, I would assume the Administrative Board would approve and we can get started on the building project.  We will try to keep you updated as much as possible as the bidding proceeds.  Please contact Chris or me with any questions or concerns.  

  Darwin



• (10/06/07) Under the direction of Bill Huber items were removed from the church and fellowship hall in preparation for the building project. View the event.
• (11/08/07) Bids have been received from McKnight and are being reviewed by the planning committee. More details will be revealed in Sunday's services on 11/11/07.
• (11/21/07) Next meeting with McKnight - Nov. 27