The Light of Christ!

On Friday we worked to salvage the stained glass windows out of the old sanctuary. The work was successful with not one piece of glass being broken.

While the windows will not be used (as is) in the new building we do have plans for the glass. In the coming weeks the glass will be shipped to Concordia University (Seward, Nebraska) where art professor, Mark Anschutz and his students will rework the glass.

While no final decisions have been made the tentative plan is that the glass will be reworked into small Christian images (perhaps crosses) that can be purchased by members who would like to have a piece of the original sanctuary in their home.

There have been other salvage projects worth noting. The benches given several years ago by the Schoen family have been removed for safe keeping and will be placed in the new courtyard outside the fellowship hall. Both of the crosses from the original sanctuary; the metal cross on the interior and the wooden cross on the exterior have been removed and will find a home on the renovated campus.

Jim Keller is taking away four of the trees set for removal. Jim is a master turner of wooden bowls and plans to make as many as one-hundred bowls from the old trees that can be purchased by the congregation (all proceeds going to the capital campaign).

It is always nice to have some of the old carried on into the new.