Our site at 144 Kerikeri Road beside the Heritage Bypass offers an exciting opportunity to build a church and community facility that will be both a hive of human activity and an oasis for reflection and spiritual uplift.
Would you like to help? See below for ways any interested community members as well as church members can be involved.
The floor plan and elevations for the new building have been agreed, Resource Consent granted by the Far North District Council, and an updated budget presented to us by our architects Creative Spaces. They have been urged to seek the most cost effective options in construction terms, and for the long-term with respect to maintenance, water, and energy needs. The required plans and information for the Building Consent are now being prepared and these detailed plans and budget will also to be submitted for church consent, at parish, regional, and national level.
With two years gone by, it is not surprising that the budget estimates are a 14% increase on the original submission by the artchitects. The amount to complete the building is more than is currently available for the project, so the decision to continue goes with a commitment to develop a strategy for fund-raising and to establish and maintain the new building as a widely used community facility.
Any people who are interested in our project, church attenders or otherwise, are invited to be involved as they choose. We're looking for people who could be part of a team to work on fund-raising - there are attractive and innovative ways of doing this and it is definitely 'do-able. And we need people with vision and enthusiasm for our new building to be part of a team to plan its future use 'to the max'.
Interested? Get in touch with Alan (094050688) or Robyn (094017554). Or email us at admin@kaeokerikeriunionchurch.org.nz or robyn@chirmac.co.nz
In the meantime the Kerikeri congregation gathers at 9.30am every Sunday morning at the Ted Robinson Chapel, Village Close, off Wendywood Lane or Ruatara Drive.
