The congregation of St. James the Apostle Episocopal Church in Conroe had much to be thankful for as churchgoers celebrated the completion of its Foundation for the Future construction project.

Among the improvements and new additions to the church grounds include an entrance, entrance sign, a new parking lot and a new plaza. The dedication of the improvements marks the completion of nearly nine months of hard work utilizing over $1.5 million in donations from the churchs congregation, Rev. Jerald Hyche said.

The initiative not only addresses issues with visibility along Texas 105 and parking, but also helps lay the groundwork for the construction of a new facility along with drainage and utility improvements potentially in the next three to five years, Hyche said. He called it a major milestone for the parish as it moves forward.

We have a full master plan that calls for a new church, but for now this really lays down the foundation for future growth, Hyche said. Hence why we called this our Foundation for the Future.

The church itself originally began in the 1930s in downtown Conroe with only 20 charter members, steadily growing into a parish in the 1950s, Hyche said. In 1993, the church moved to its current home at 1803 Highland Hollow Drive, and has grown from about 100 families to about 300 families strong.

The thing about a church is you really have to continue looking at ways to grow and improve anything in life, or youre only going backwards, Hyche said.

Even simple touches, like a more welcoming entryway and a new logo, are designed to entice more people to join St. James the Apostle and encourage growth among the congregation, Hyche said.

The visibility on the highway was certainly critical so people could see we were here, Hyche said. Many of us felt that the church was kind of hidden behind the tree line and we want to give people every opportunity that this is a sanctuary and a place for hope and feelings.

During his sermon, Hyche joked with those in attendance about referring to the time before work started as B.C. or Before Construction, but also reminded his congregation of the importance of the dedication.

We dedicate not just this property, but we also continue to dedicate ourselves to the word of God, Hyche said.

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CLIFTON They spent tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees, fielded dozens of complaints and waited for more than a decade. But for members of the House of Fire Christian Church, persistence paid off.

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Members of the House of Fire Christian Church praying in a circle during Sunday morning services at temporary quarters at the Looking Glass Children's Center in Bloomfield.

The House of Fire, a small evangelical congregation of Italian-Americans, two weeks ago won a protracted court battle over whether it could build a sanctuary on a tiny vacant lot off a busy city street.

The Rev. Placido Lentini, who since 2002 has led the church from a rented room in a Bloomfield children's center, said he was delighted that his parishioners will be able to worship in a place of their own in a few months.

"We've been praying for 12 years for this dream to become reality," Lentini said last week as he stood near mountains of dirt at the church property on Grove Street. "Thank God it will become reality soon."

The Clifton zoning board twice denied the parish's application, most recently arguing that the lot wasn't big enough to provide adequate parking. On Dec. 31, a state appeals court issued a strongly worded opinion upholding a lower court ruling overturning the zoning board's decision, calling it "arbitrary, capricious and a manifest abuse of its discretionary authority."

Neighboring residents, who carried on the latest legal challenge, said they worry about traffic jams and accidents as 40-plus parishioners make K-turns to squeeze into 18 spots each Sunday.

"The traffic along here is a nightmare already," said Sharron Lebitsch, who has lived next door to the church's property for 43 years. "Who knows what more that's going to bring."

The church has agreed to enlist a volunteer attendant to direct traffic and insists there will be no problems. Lentini said there are enough parking spaces, and parishioners will make accommodations by car-pooling on holidays.

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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church broke ground to their new church, Saturday.

According to the catholic community, the church is the first be built around the city in 45 years.

"All of these days and all of these years and months are really coming to fruition so it's really been something to get the feeling of what is happening to this part of Bakersfield," saidBishop Armando Ochoa from the Catholic Diocese of Fresno.

Parishioners at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton currently meet at Frontier High School every Sunday. They first established the church in 2008 with 200 people, but are now at over 1,000 attendants.

The new church will house 1,500 seats with a multiple purpose room and is estimated to cost about $6.2 million.

"It's been a long time coming so we are overjoyed," said church attendant Carolyn Woff.

The church will join the existing26 parishes in the Fresno Diocese that includes Kern County.

Construction of the church will be a three phase process starting next month.

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The northbound lane of Alii Drive in Kailua Village will be closed starting Monday while crews connect the under-construction St. Michael the Archangel Church to a county water main.

Pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists are advised to be prepared for the closure and, if possible, seek alternate routes because delays are anticipated, said Bill Prince, who is managing the construction of the new facility for Konas oldest Roman Catholic Church. The closure of the northbound lane will occur between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, he said.

Prince said the closure is necessary to allow for excavation work by Heartwood Pacific LLC to connect the new facility to a Hawaii County Department of Water Supply water main that crosses beneath Alii Drive fronting Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Waterfront Row.

Department of Water Supply spokeswoman Kanani Aton confirmed the connection was to occur this week. She said DWS crews will be working at the same times as the contractor to upgrade water services to provide for fire protection and meter size. The church will then tap into the water main, she said.

The southbound lane will remain open during the work, Prince said, adding that traffic control personnel have been contracted to contraflow traffic around the work. Crews plan to place steel plates over the work at night to allow traffic to flow in both directions.

People will be managed in the area, he said. Pedestrians are asked to use the makai sidewalk for safety, he added.

As the crews work to connect to the water main fronting the church, construction continues on the actual facility. Construction Committee head Dick Leander said that steel work has begun; vertical construction is planned to begin Jan. 20.

If all goes as planned, construction will be completed by November, he said. The first services are slated in the new facility for Christmas.

Ground breaking for the new St. Michael the Archangel Church was held Sept. 28, 2012. The former church building was deemed unsafe by structural engineers in 2007 following Oct. 15, 2006, earthquakes. Since then, services have been held in a tent on the Alii Drive property, and, more recently, at a facility off Honokohau Street in Kailua-Kona.

Completed in 1850, St. Michael the Archangel is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Kona, according to the Kona Historical Society. Gov. John Adams Kuakini gave the land beneath the facility to the Catholic Church in 1841. The original building was completed under the Rev. Marechal.

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The northbound lane of Alii Drive in Kailua Village will be closed starting Monday while crews connect the under-construction St. Michael the Archangel Church to a county water main.

Pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists are advised to be prepared for the closure and, if possible, seek alternate routes because delays are anticipated, said Bill Prince, who is managing the construction of the new facility for Konas oldest Roman Catholic Church. The closure of the northbound lane will occur between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, he said.

Prince said the closure is necessary to allow for excavation work by Heartwood Pacific LLC to connect the new facility to a Hawaii County Department of Water Supply water main that crosses beneath Alii Drive fronting Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Waterfront Row.

Department of Water Supply spokeswoman Kanani Aton confirmed the connection was to occur this week. She said DWS crews will be working at the same times as the contractor to upgrade water services to provide for fire protection and meter size. The church will then tap into the water main, she said.

The southbound lane will remain open during the work, Prince said, adding that traffic control personnel have been contracted to contraflow traffic around the work. Crews plan to place steel plates over the work at night to allow traffic to flow in both directions.

People will be managed in the area, he said. Pedestrians are asked to use the makai sidewalk for safety, he added.

As the crews work to connect to the water main fronting the church, construction continues on the actual facility. Construction Committee head Dick Leander said that steel work has begun; vertical construction is planned to begin Jan. 20.

If all goes as planned, construction will be completed by November, he said. The first services are slated in the new facility for Christmas.

Ground breaking for the new St. Michael the Archangel Church was held Sept. 28, 2012. The former church building was deemed unsafe by structural engineers in 2007 following Oct. 15, 2006, earthquakes. Since then, services have been held in a tent on the Alii Drive property, and, more recently, at a facility off Honokohau Street in Kailua-Kona.

Completed in 1850, St. Michael the Archangel is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Kona, according to the Kona Historical Society. Gov. John Adams Kuakini gave the land beneath the facility to the Catholic Church in 1841. The original building was completed under the Rev. Marechal.

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Orlando, Fl (PRWEB) January 10, 2014

Local Orlando Baptist Church announced that it will be breaking ground on a new 18, 828 square foot auditorium on January 12, 2014. Church officials are expecting construction to begin this week and finishing up before the end of 2014.

This new auditorium comes at a perfect time for the local church as they are celebrating their 25 year anniversary this year. The church currently has many outreach ministries helping the local communities of Central Florida.

The new auditorium will permit Starlight Baptist Church to hold hundreds of new members, which is much needed as this local church is at maximum capacity with its current facilities. In exchange, Starlight will be able to expand its growth, as will the Outreach Ministries of Central Florida.

More information is expected to be released following completion of the new auditorium.

Starlight has seen tremendous growth in recent years. They now have seven bus routes including a homeless ministry route, van route and a senior saints route. They host a Church Efficiency Conference, Youth Conference, Super Rally and a Wild Game Dinner that draws large crowds from across the State.

About Starlight Baptist Church

Starlight Baptist Church first opened its doors in June of 1989 by Pastor Glenn Riggs. Starlight Baptist Church is an Independent, Fundamental, King James Church that services all of Central Florida.

Starlight has seen tremendous growth in recent years. They now have seven bus routes including a homeless ministry route, van route and a senior saints route. They host a Church Efficiency Conference, Youth Conference, Super Rally and a Wild Game Dinner that draws large crowds from across the State. For more information on Starlight or for Media Relations, contact Cindy Sederopoulos at (407) 696-5110 or visit http://starlightbaptist.com/.

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Cypress, CA Located in the heart of Wall Street, Trinity Church was the first Anglican church in Manhattan. Founded in 1697, the iconic church has a rich history, including several signers of the Declaration of Independence (Alexander Hamilton is one) being laid to rest in its burial grounds. Aiming to preserve its 17th century roots while using 21st century technology to spread the message of the church, Trinity began planning the construction of a new control room early last year. The new control room was completed last month and is centered around a FOR-A 2 M/E HVS-390HS video production switcher.

The switcher first caught the attention of the house of worships director of media, production and operations, William Jarrett, at NAB 2013. The HVS-390HS switcher is a perfect fit for our church, explained Jarrett. We appreciate the amount of inputs it offers and its optional video outputs. A frame synchronizer with every channel was also a big draw to us. We found that theres an elegance about it that inherently made sense. We needed a system that was easy to use, and the flow of the switcher is simple for our operators to understand.

In addition to using its video technology to perform IMAG (image magnification) production during Trinitys services, the parish webcasts all of its Sunday morning and weekday services on its website, reaching viewers worldwide. Concerts from its Grammy-nominated choir, conferences, and other special and live events are also webcast. The first major production in the new studio was Handels Messiah, a widespread oratorio house of worship Christmas tradition that was first performed in the New World at Trinity Church.

The new control room was commissioned and blessed on December 8. The event was webcast on Trinitys website, and can be viewed online here. Jarrett estimates that the switcher will be involved in 450-500 events throughout the course of a year.

In building a new control room, we made a commitment to doing it right and designing a system thats future resistant, said Jarrett. We live in a multi-platform world, and we created our control room and associated workflow with that as a focus. Its modular in design. Our technology is designed to ease the production process and make it more streamlined, and we have the ability to swap out a piece of equipment without that affecting everything else. Using high-quality technology to convey the mission of Trinity is critical to us, and FOR-As switcher is an integral part of our new control room.

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BAKERSFIELD, CA- It has been in the works for years, and this weekend, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church will break ground on a permanent site. They say it's the first new Catholic Church built in our area in more than 40 years.

The site is at the corner of Riena and Old Farm roads. Although It's just an empty lot now, there are big plans the property.

Msgr. Perry Kavookjian said, "I'm ready to have our own building that we can settle into, call home."

For nearly six years parishioners at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church have been going to mass at Frontier High School. Every Sunday, volunteers transform the school's theater into a church; hauling the alter, sound system, podium and other items needed for mass.

"People have been very enthusiastic and very supportive, definitely very generous," said Kavookjian.

He says with the expanding population, there is a need for another Catholic Church.

Kavookjian said, "Chances are, if you don't get there early enough, you're going to sit outside, or stand up. We've known for a while that some of those churches are bursting at the seams, which is a good problem to have."

Over the years, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's congregation has grown to 1,000 families.

"Definitely the need is here and people have been waiting a while for a church to be built in this area," he said.

Soon, they'll have a place to call their own. The church will break ground on a 24 acre lot Saturday, beginning the first of three phases of construction.

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