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Harvest Team Members:
Barron Christensen, Jeff Peace, Dena McCord, Tommy Cullins, Rex Henderson, Dr. James Stanley and Gary Davis
Report given by Barron Christensen, Chairman
October 3, 2010
The plans are now ready for the Building Committee to put the plans out for bid. While the plans are out for bid, our capital campaign firm, Horizons, will be working on a feasibility study.
This study will involve an analysis of our church giving history and a survey of a portion of our church membership. The purpose of their study is to be able to give us a good estimate of the amount of money that our church could expect to raise in a 3-year capital campaign.
This should be complete by the end of the year. The results of the bid process and the feasibility study will then be presented to the church. We’ll be able to see what the project will cost us and have a good idea of what a capital campaign could raise.
After having at least a week or two to consider the presentation and to pray about whether or not you feel like this is God’s will for our church, you will be asked to decide whether we should begin a capital campaign or not. The vote will be by secret ballot.
If the church votes not to proceed, then we will cancel our contract with Horizons, pay them $4,900 for the work on the feasibility study and put the project on hold.
If the church votes to proceed, then the campaign will begin soon after Brother Joe’s last Sunday. We don’t want to do anything that will take away from the time that we have left with Brother Joe and Lea Etta.
So the campaign will start sometime in February or March and run until the May or June timeframe. When the campaign is over, the amount of money that has been pledged will be reported to the church.
At this time, the church will know the amount that the new sanctuary will cost us and we will also know the amount of money that has been pledged to the project. It is then that we will be asked to take one final vote. A vote then will be a vote to build or not to build. Again this vote will be by secret ballot.
This project has been a challenge. A lot of things have happened that have led to questioning and confusion. And I understand the questioning and confusion. I’ve questioned and been confused myself. I’ve probably done more than my share of adding to the confusion.
But now my goal and the goal of the Harvest Team is to uncomplicate things. From this point forward, the process must become very straightforward. We must communicate clearly and simply.
Within the next couple of weeks you should receive a letter from the Harvest Team outlining the timeline that I’ve shared with you this morning. I know some of you are probably like me, unless it’s written down, it’s going to be gone. This will give you something to refer to.
In the weeks and months to come, when we vote on whether or not to proceed with this project, remember, we are not voting on which side of the issue is right and which is wrong. That can only divide us. Instead, we will be voting on what we believe to be God’s will for our church. To cast that vote is going to require something of us. It’s going to require that we plead with God to reveal His will to us.
I would encourage you to start now in asking God to reveal His will to you so that when the time comes, First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Texas is where God wants us to be.
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