03-06-2012 10:09 As construction of our enhanced facility progressed, and as the spaces had started to be identified, we thought a tour was in order. With Brian Smith as tour guide, we made a quick sweep of all the new classrooms and spaces. We had a lot of fun bringing this one together.
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MALACCA: The Holy Light Church (English) received a cheque for RM500,000 from the Government for the construction of its building in Jalan Persiaran Ponderosa in Johor Baru.
It was good news for church members who were having their annual camp at Puteri Resort here when they received the cheque from congregation member and senior lawyer Roger Tan.
Tan said they were grateful that the cheque was received so soon after Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin approved the grant.
Tan, who is also a Commissioner in the National Water Services Commission, was at the signing of the Water Services Restructuring Water Agreement on May 23 in Putrajaya when he approached Muhyiddin about the church being in urgent need of funds to complete its RM4mil building.
The building, which houses a worship hall, a multi-purpose hall and meeting rooms, is due to be completed in October for the churchs 60th anniversary celebrations.
The generous gift from the Government is indeed a pleasant surprise and yet so timely, said senior pastor Dr Chuah Seong Peng.
Chuah voiced appreciation for Muhyiddins kind gesture, saying:
It is a commendable and magnanimous act that encourages Malaysians to work together to build a strong, united and prosperous country for the benefit of all.
The church also received a grant of RM200,000 from the Johor Government in August 2010.
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The 150-foot steeple of the Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church is placed atop the new sanctuary during the 1990 construction phase. Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church is one of several churches located along Immokalee Road in Naples.
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St. Paul's Antiochian Orthodox Church, which was consecrated on Feb. 19, was a dream that began with a small group of Naples and Marco faithful back in the 1990s. The church, at Immokalee and Rivers roads, is one of several congregations situated along the roadway.
In 1990, construction of the sanctuary of Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church began. The original building, completed in 1982, is seen on the left. Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church is one of several churches located along Immokalee Road in Naples. Daily news/file
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NORI ST. PAUL Celebrants look toward the altar room during the consecration of St. Paul's Antiochian Orthodox Church in Naples. The church, located Immokalee and Rivers roads, is one of several congregations situated along the roadway.
Workers navigate the sloping roof during construction of the sanctuary of Vanderbilt Presbyterian Church in 1990. The original building, completed in 1983 is on the left.
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NORI ST. PAUL Bishop Anthony Michaels, from left, Diocese of Toledo and the Midwest; Bishop Antoun Khouri, Diocese of Miami; Metropolitan Philip Saliba, chief hierarch of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Diocese of North America; and Archpriest Joseph Antypas pray during a February service at St. Paul's Antiochian Orthodox Church on Immokalee Road. It is the most recent church to be consencrated there.
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CHURCH STREET: Immokalee Road is lined with churches that range from fundamentalist to mainstream
31-05-2012 21:03 The oldest catholic church in NC is building a new house of worship at its location on Village Drive. This video is a compilation of work being done. More to follow as construction progresses.
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01-06-2012 06:57 A special thank you to all of the churches of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church
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For months, church leaders have been raising money to replace the hefty antique brass bell that used to toll for services. The bell was stolen in November and busted up for a quick profit as scrap metal. Police were able to recover some of the pieces but not all.
Nevermind all that now. The church is nearing its fundraising goal for a new bell and tower -- with a little help from a neighboring parish.
On Wednesday night, the Angelus Handbell Choir from Holy Family Catholic Church in Kirkland played a fundraiser concert at the Monroe church.
Roughly 60 people attended, including Monroe parishioners, handbell fans and neighbors of all faiths, the Rev. Phillip Bloom said.
The concert reminded Monroe church members of the generosity and solidarity they have found in others since the theft, Bloom said.
He credited the Kirkland handbell choir director, Pam Gunderson, for putting it all together.
"I was blown away by what she accomplished with the handbell choir," Bloom said. "This was the first time I'd ever actually attended a concert like that. I did not realize the range and the versatility they had, and the types of sounds they could make with those bells."
The choir also performed a few numbers with two teenage Monroe musicians: violinist Marianne Martinoli and pianist Arielle Howard.
That "really raised the whole musical layer way, way up," Gunderson said. "That was really a nice serendipity that happened."
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IBADAN, NIGERIA : Five workers were killed on Thursday morning when a church under construction collapsed in southwestern Nigeria, local media reported on Friday. Two other workers were seriously injured.
The accident happened at a building which is part of the New Covenant Church in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State in southwestern Nigeria. The Nigerian Tribune newspaper reported that the victims were waiting to collect their daily wages when the building collapsed, killing five of them and injuring two others.
Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who visited the scene, blamed the accident on the contractor who allegedly used inferior materials to save money. "If the contractor had not compromised quality, this incident would not have happened," he told the newspaper, adding that his repeated warnings to ensure quality were ignored.
During the Easter weekend in April, 22 people were killed and 30 others were injured when a Catholic church in rural Nigeria collapsed ahead of an evening mass to celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ. Panic broke out when strong winds and heavy rains hit the area, prompting people to flee inside the hall of the church to seek shelter. A strong wind gust caused the roof of the building to collapse shortly after. (BNO News)
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01-06-2012 13:04 Leštiny is a village and municipality in Dolný Kubín District in the Žilina Region of northern Slovakia. The wooden church at Leštiny dates from 1688 and is relatively small and unsophisticated in design, with a wooden belfry. Construction was restricted by the terrain, hence there ios only a hint of the shape of a cross. The interior of the church is noteworthy for its richly-decorated sacristy, painted marble ceiling coffers and illusory architecture on the walls. Also of interest are the main altar from the beginning of the 18th century, the church pews with their coats of arms, the burial flag of J Zmeškal and the epitaph of M Meška of 1753. The church at Leštiny, along with seven other wooden churches of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area, has been included on the UNESCO's Word Heritage List. Lestiny In der kleinen Ortschaft Lestiny findet sich wieder eine sogenannte Artikularkirche aus dem Jahre 1688. Artikularkirchen sind protestantische Holzkirchen, welche aufgrund eines Dikretes von Kaiser Leopold I. nur aus Holz, außerhalb des Dorfes, ohne Turm, Kreuz, Glocke und der Straße abgewandt errichtet werden durften. Heute bilden sie in der Fülle slowakischer Steinkirchen eine interessante Abwechslung und bringen etwas nordeuropäischen Flair hierhin. Sehenswert sind sie ausnahmlos alle und deshalb führte meine Reiseroute immer wieder an diesen Kirchentyp vorbei.
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Members of Church Care Construction are helping to rebuild the First Baptist Church of Memphis after its roof collapsed in February. Photo by Stephanie Bouvia.
Memphis Thanks to the 13 members of a northern Ohio-based organization, the cost of rebuilding the First Baptist Church of Memphis will be almost cut in half.
After the roof of the First Baptist Church collapsed in February, Church Care Construction was called in to help. Church Care Construction travels the country building and rebuilding various churches. The members work for free, cutting much of the labor costs.
We are able to save churches a tremendous amount of money, because we are basically labor-free, said Brent Howard, project manager for Church Care Construction. Our missionaries are supported by other churches to help build churches, so that eliminates the labor costs of the building project. So we can build for a lot less money and give them, actually, a bigger building than what they would be able to afford.
Members of the organization are currently living on the construction site of the new church, located on Route 5 in Camillus, in RVs. Some members are also temporarily renting apartments in the area while the organization is at work building a new, 24,000 square-foot building fit with a gymnasium, worship area and classrooms.
The missionary builders are currently waiting for a building permit before they begin working on the new church, said Church Care Construction director Howard Fraser. He said they are expecting to be granted a permit, hopefully, this week.
Once they obtain a permit, the builders will start laying the foundation of the building. Next will come the floors, building the structure of the walls, roof trusses, siding, windows and more, Fraser said. The organization is hoping to complete the outside of the building by the fall, after which theyll move inside the building and work on the interior during the winter months.
Fraser said he hopes the entire project will be completed by October 2013. This particular church, he said, is a larger project than what the organization normally takes on. In order to complete it in a timely matter, Fraser said they will reach out to members of the First Baptist Church of Memphis, as well as other community volunteers who are interested in helping.
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ALLENTOWN The reopening of South Main Street to heavy truck traffic following the completion of the new county bridge is having repercussions that are being felt downtown and around the corner on Church Street.
The incessant shaking and rattling from the increasing number of heavy rigs rolling through the neighborhood these days recently prompted one longtime borough resident to bring her camera out into the street to document the problem.
Now that the bridge is fixed, and the (NJ) Turnpike is having repairs and expansion done, there is an inordinate amount of truck traffic on Church Street, homeowner Frances Brown told the Borough Council on May 22.
I sat out there a couple of days in a row, about an hour each day, and within an hour, there were 37 trucks that went by so that means there was more than one truck every two minutes, Ms. Brown told the governing body. Im in an 1840s house that shakes, and Ive had plaster and other things fall off my house.
Ms. Brown, who has lived on Church Street 25 years, noted a section of underground sewer pipe that runs beneath Church Street to the curb in front of her home broke due to the weight of the heavy truck traffic, and it cost her $1,500 to fix it. The borough also has had to foot the bill for broken pipes elsewhere under Church Street, she pointed out.
The county has jurisdiction over Church Street because it is a county road (Route 526). After Route 526 crosses west into Robbinsville, it is known locally as Robbinsville-Allentown Road. Borough residents said many trucks rolling down Church Street are headed for construction areas on Interstate 195 and the Turnpike, which the trucks are accessing via the I-195 entrance ramps on Robbinsville-Allentown Road.
Mayor Stuart Fierstein said that during the recent reconstruction of the South Main Street bridge, the county set a temporary 10-ton weight limit and 15-mph speed limit on the span, which kept the heavy truck traffic out of Allentown. Now that the bridge is done, and the weight restrictions and lower speed limit have been removed, more heavy trucks are back using roads in the half-square-mile boroughs downtown area.
The mayor told Ms. Brown the solution was the construction of the westerly bypass at the southern end of town, a county project that has gone nowhere in the past decade. The county is under tremendous pressure, he said, because of opposition from Upper Freehold officials and residents of housing developments in the township located near where the new road would be built.
In 2003, the county built a bypass off Route 526 in Upper Freehold near the Hope Fire Company and Reed Park that directs traffic around the north end of Allentown to Exit 8 of I-195. Allentown officials have been lobbying the county for a similar bypass at the southern end of the borough that would link High Street (Route 539) to Ellisdale Road in Upper Freehold and eventually connect to Robbinsville-Allentown Road (Route 526) in Robbinsville.
Weve spent the last 10 years expecting that if one bypass is built, well get the other bypass, Mr. Fierstein told Ms. Brown.
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