Dear Countryside Church family,
I just wanted to give you a quick update on the Construction Club. Construction Club is an extension of Kids Club. It was designed to be an opportunity for a parent and child to learn some basic construction skills. We started meeting for the first time on Saturday, March 6th.
For those of you that have had an opportunity to walk through the lower lobby at church near the gym, I’m sure that you have noticed the changes. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to be in the building for a while, we have changed the flooring in the lower lobby from carpet to a vinyl laminate wood plank floor. As you walk into the building at the lower lobby, you are facing the east wall of the lobby area.
That wall was furred out and now has a pallet wall appearance. This wall was also covered with a laminate vinyl flooring material, but gives a colorful wood grain appearance. At the center of the wall in large gold letters it reads “Welcome Home”.
Though we have around 40 kids signed up for Kids Club at this point, we have only found three youth that are able to attend Construction Club. We have enjoyed the hard-working company of Adam and Val Rutledge with their kids Grant and Morgan. Also, Bo and Jamie Mathis with their daughter Ava. Another great addition has been Jacob Miller. These folks worked for three Saturdays in a row, working more than 5 hours each time. It was a lot of hard work but I think we would all say it was enjoyable (see following page for pictures).
Several of our faithful Kids Club attenders have expressed interest in Construction Club however, their busy schedules do not allow them to participate on most weeknights or weekends. Perhaps this summer we will reconfigure our program and be able to add more youth. For now this small dedicated bunch will tackle our next project which is putting down carpet squares in the youth church classroom. I will also add here that those of us that worked on the lower lobby project believe it would be a nice addition to the church to replace the carpet down the classroom hallway. However, we agreed that that project is beyond the Construction Club’s expertise. If you can recommend someone with those skills, I would like to chat with them (515) 971-0861. Thank you to the many of you who have spoken encouraging words about the Construction Club progress. This program is more about building relationships with people than it is Construction. So far it has just simply been a lot of fun working with great people.
~Steve
