Miller Room for Student Ministry Use

           The Miller Room (or G101), which has been used as a kind of multi-purpose room, will soon be converted into a Student Ministry space.

          As you know since the hailstorm, our students have been without a building of their own.  They are currently in the Family Life Center using classrooms upstairs on Sunday morning and the gym floor on Wednesday nights.

          There are no immediate plans to construct a student building.  (A master plan that was developed about eight years ago included the future construction of a Student Ministry Building but this master plan needs to be revisited).  Even if we were to vote on doing that at the next Church in Conference (which we are not), it would take about two years before we could have a building.  That means that we need to do our best to make sure our students have a place they can call their own, a place that welcomes them, a place that announces from the very entrance that students are important at Calvary, a place that feels like a student building for the next three or four years.  The next step in doing so is to convert the Miller Room (downstairs in the Family Life Center) into a student hang out area.  

          We are not planning on doing any structural changes or major remodeling.  We simply need to paint the room, put some comfy chairs in there, add some ping-pong and/or pool tables, etc.. etc. Pastor Marcus will be working to lead this project and to make sure that it is both student-friendly and low-budget.  This, of course, implies that this room will not be the most adequate for adult usage (except for college students).  We do hope that this room will be shared by college ministry.  We have plenty of rooms that adults can use in the Slayton building, multi-purpose room, Family Life Center and parlor.  We will do our due diligence to facilitate the best rooms availability for adult ministry.  But it is important that Student Ministry has its appropriate, welcoming space.

           Our hope is to start work on this within the next two weeks in order to have it ready by the beginning of the semester.  We appreciate your support, the leadership of Marcus Rodriguez, and the support of many volunteers in the Student Ministry.  We look forward to numerical, spiritual and missional growth in our student ministry.

P.S.:  We need to consider a good time this fall to have a group, team or committee revisit the "master plan" that the church adopted several years ago (immediately before the construction of the Children's building).