Proposed Renovation | February , 2021
An energetic church
Our community is full of energy. When we’re not in a global pandemic, our church building welcomes 400 people to worship every Sunday. Our kitchen serves 150 congregants lunch and provides meals three times a week for 100 guests who are experiencing food insecurity.
The building also hosts midweek programs like book studies, guest speakers, contemplative practices, music rehearsals, and children and youth programming.
Walking in the path of Jesus, our church is a hub for social justice, working in the areas of Indigenous reconciliation, anti-racism, refugees, and LGBTQ2IA+ inclusion.
Our building also hosts dozens of funerals, weddings, and baptisms a year, and provides space for addiction recovery programs, a community daycare, and environmental groups.
Wherever you fit into this colourful and vibrant picture, we invite you to be part of getting ready to come back to church in the building.
Inside
Our kitchen, bathrooms, and gymnasium are the most active areas for both congregants and community guests, and experience the most wear-and-tear.
Our outdated kitchen needs upgrades to improve ventilation and food safety requirements that will qualify it as a commercial kitchen. An electrical fire last December showed us just how necessary these renovations are. With input from our most frequent kitchen volunteers, we have a plan for new appliances and a new layout that will help the kitchen not only function better, but also provide a more enjoyable experience for cooking and serving together in community.
Kitchen Layout
Our bathrooms and plumbing are old and often have issues. Renovations will open up the space and improve ventilation. Gender neutral and accessible stalls will help us live into our values of social justice and radical hospitality.
We also propose that our gymnasium stage be turned into modern meeting rooms, with the technology to host in-person and online hybrid events that will be essential to including our online community as we come back to the building. These rooms could also be rented out as meeting spaces, which would be another source of income for the church.
An elevator lift and a new electric panel are other necessities we plan to implement with your support.
Floor plan
Outside
Changes are also being proposed to the outside of the building (the “Annex” or the part constructed in the 1950s/60s). The images below show the plan to give the entire building a more cohesive look and establish an inviting entrance. Click here to view the development permit approved by the city.
How you can help
Whether your contribution is big or small, we want everyone at Hillhurst to be a part of getting ready, together.
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