Life Church breaks ground near Hailey

City wants plan to meet its standards

By TONY EVANS Express Staff Writer

The Life Church has finally broken ground on construction of an 8,680-square-foot church complex north of Albertsons grocery store in Hailey. The project will be completed sometime next spring, ending an arduous process to make a permanent home for the Life Church congregation.

We are so excited that this project is started, said Life Church Pastor Michael Hendricks. We have waited 17 years."

The churchwhich is being developed in Blaine Countywill have a roof height of 33 feet, and will feature an extensive sanctuary, four classrooms, a kitchen and three offices. The development will have 51 parking spaces and be accessed by a gravel driveway connecting to McKercher Boulevard.

From 1992 to 2011, the Life Church met on Main Street in Hailey, before moving to an old church building on Snowbank Drive in Woodside subdivision to make room for more followers.

We have been running out of room for 10 years, said Hendricks, who gathers an English-speaking congregation of 120 people each Sunday, followed by a Spanish-speaking congregation of 60.

The churchs name has changed over the years, from Valley Chapel, to Valley Christian Fellowship, to The Life Church.

We are non-denominational, providing a contemporary feel with foundational principles. We have a lead guitar, keyboard and drummers. We do hymns, but the majority of our music is songs for today, Hendricks said.

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Sunshine Recycling, provider of construction dumpsters in Jacksonville, FL is currently assisting Westmoreland Construction LLC on a new 6,000-square-foot building for Covenant Christian Church located at 10570 Greenville Road in South Jacksonville. Sunshine delivered a 30-yard container at the beginning of July and anticipates multiple weekly hauls through the duration of the job.

Covenant Christian Church was founded in 2011. The church is currently located at 4613 Phillips Hwy in Suite 211. The project began with excavation in May. Sunshine Recycling is collecting and hauling construction debris. Typical refuse generated from new construction includes wood, paper and cardboard, drywall or sheetrock, plastics, glass and metals.

We are happy to support our local community throughout Jacksonville, said Chuck Herb, owner of Sunshine Recycling in Jacksonville. This is a beautiful area in Southside for the church and its congregation. This is a moderate-size job that will generate a fair amount of refuse, so we provided an appropriate size dumpster and are able to accommodate their weekly hauling needs.

Sunshine Recycling provides roll off dumpsters for residential use during projects including small additions to a home, a remodel or a room renovation. Roll off dumpsters can also be used in commercial and industrial applications for excavation, renovations, new construction and demolition. In addition, Sunshine offers long-term waste management solutions in the form of trash compactors for local businesses.

About Sunshine Recycling of Jacksonville: Sunshine Recycling Inc. of Jacksonville is a dumpster rental company servicing north Florida. Offering various sizes of dumpsters including front-load, roll off and full-size construction dumpsters, Sunshine Recycling also collects recyclables, waste and construction debris, and provides hauling services and trash compactors. The company is a proud member of the U.S. Green Building Council and is LEED AP certified. For more information about renting construction dumpsters in Jacksonville, please visit http://www.dumpsters-jacksonville.com/roll-dumpsters/.

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Plans to speed up the renovation timeline for Falls Church High School remain in limbo as the Fairfax County School Board wrestles with the school systems construction backlog.

The School Boards drive to accelerate the high schools facilities upgrade stalled when confronted with the realities of the scheme, which would delay the renovations of 13 other schools.

The School Board in January directed staff to identify methods of expediting renovations for the countys five legacy high schools. Though the school system aims to renovate schools at least every 25 years, this group of schools - Falls Church, Herndon, Langley, Oakton and West Springfield - were all built around the same time in the 1960s and have never been fully renovated.

Falls Church faces the longest wait of any of these schools, with the start of construction still at least five years away. FCPS staff used Falls Church as a guinea pig to investigate the feasibility of speedier renovations.

The school is scheduled to receive funding for its renovation through the 2019 school bond referendum - if county voters continue to approve the biennial school bond votes.

To move that timeline up by two years, allowing Falls Church to receive funding from the 2017 bond and start its construction sooner, it would need to leapfrog other schools on the waiting list for renovations.

We simply dont have a silver bullet to deal with this request, said Jeff Platenberg, the assistant superintendent for facilities and transportation services. The challenge is, we have these needs that go beyond just one school, even legacy schools.

The school system contracts independent engineering firms to determine the order of schools for renovation. The last evaluation in 2008 placed 63 schools in a renovation queue based on the age and condition of their facilities, as well as other factors.

Falls Church currently sits at No. 45 on the queue. Accelerating its renovation would move the school up to No. 31.

Platenberg said such queue jumping has only occurred once before, when Chantilly High School was renovated out of order in the 1990s due to structural issues with the school building.

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Sudanese Christians reacted with anger and surprise last weekend when it was announced that no new churches will be allowed to be built.

Guidance and Endowments Minister Shalil Abdullah announcedSaturday that there were enough churches already, and prohibited the construction of new houses of worship.

Sudan Council of Churches Secretary-General Rev. Kori El Ramli said the announcement follows the destructionof a church on June 30 in Khartoum. Officials have not identified a reason for the demolition, and church leaders were given only one day's notice before the church was destroyed.

Rev. El Ramli said that the number of Christians in Sudan is increasing, and that more churches will be needed.

"We want the government to give us new plots so we can build a new church," he told BBC's "Focus on Africa" radio show.

"We are citizens and the constitution says there is freedom of religion and worship so we are using this to get our rights."

In addition to the destruction of churches, El Ramli reported that Christians were forced to move from an area outside of Omdurman to an area north of the city. The church that the Christians attended was bulldozed, and they no longer have a place to worship.

The Council of Churches held a workshop on Monday, but it was interrupted by government officials who accused them of proselytizing, El Ramli said.

Some Sudanese Christians are afraid to attend church services out of fear of violence or other retaliation.

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St Peter's methodist church and church halls on Park Lane in Norwich are up for sale with a guide price of 600,00 to 650,000. Photo: Bill Smith

Dan Grimmer Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:07 AM

An historic Norwich church has been put up for sale with a 600,000 price tag, after its congregation dwindled.

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The imposing St Peters Methodist Church occupies some 11,500 square metres in the heart of the citys Golden Triangle and is on the market.

But developers looking to snap up the Park Lane church so it can be turned into homes are likely to be disappointed.

Norwich City Council has indicated it wants the buildings to remain in use for the community and, for the time being at least, does not want it converted into residential use.

While the building, which was designed by city architect Cecil Yelf, is not listed by English Heritage, it is locally listed, which gives it some protection against demolition.

The property is made up of three interconnected buildings with some construction dating back to 1894, although the church itself was built in 1939.

Tom Corfield, from Hall Road-based surveyors Irelands, explained why the church was on the market.

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St Peter's methodist church and church halls on Park Lane in Norwich are up for sale with a guide price of 600,00 to 650,000. Photo: Bill Smith

Dan Grimmer Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:07 AM

An historic Norwich church has been put up for sale with a 600,000 price tag, after its congregation dwindled.

To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in.

The imposing St Peters Methodist Church occupies some 11,500 square metres in the heart of the citys Golden Triangle and is on the market.

But developers looking to snap up the Park Lane church so it can be turned into homes are likely to be disappointed.

Norwich City Council has indicated it wants the buildings to remain in use for the community and, for the time being at least, does not want it converted into residential use.

While the building, which was designed by city architect Cecil Yelf, is not listed by English Heritage, it is locally listed, which gives it some protection against demolition.

The property is made up of three interconnected buildings with some construction dating back to 1894, although the church itself was built in 1939.

Tom Corfield, from Hall Road-based surveyors Irelands, explained why the church was on the market.

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SINGAPORE: Former City Harvest Church investment manager Chew Eng Han crossed swords with co-accused John Lam for a second day on Thursday (July 17), pointing to significant parts of Lam's testimony which he said were not true.

Both are among the six church leaders accused of using millions of church dollars to buy sham bonds to bankroll the pop music career of Sun Ho -- wife of church founder Kong Hee.

When he took the stand on Monday (July 14), former church board member John Lam singled out Chew Eng Han as the man who suggested the church invest in the bonds.

Lam said in June 2007, Chew asked to meet him and proposed to be the church's fund manager as he was setting up his own fund management company.

On Thursday (July 17), Chew, who is conducting his own defence after discharging his lawyer, said such a meeting "never happened" and produced evidence to show he was in Japan at that time. He also pointed to emails between some of the accused to show the idea to invest in the bonds had not been conceptualised then.

In addition, Chew said it was not true that he set up his firm specifically to manage the church's funds. Emails showed that Chew had informed Kong Hee that he wanted to set up his own firm because it was his dream, and personal career decision, and had done so in April 2007.

Chew noted that this was well before the decision was made to invest in the bonds.

He also pointed out that the church's investment into Xtron bonds had a mission objective, as this would go to funding the Crossover Project and that it was Kong Hee who oversaw all spiritual matters.

"A fund manager has no expertise in spiritual matters. You cannot engage a fund manager to assess the missions benefit of the church," Chew said.

Over the past couple of days, the point of risk-taking being inherent in the church's DNA has been brought up -- pointing to its investments, mission plans, and even the design and construction of its building in Jurong West.

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By a pair of unanimous votes on successive nights this week, the Falls Church City Council and the Falls Church School Board stepped boldly into the campaign to win voter approval in a November referendum to fund construction of a major expansion and renovation of one of the Citys four schools, the Mt. Daniel Elementary.

Monday the City Council took little time to approve, 7-0, a final reading of a measure to place on the November ballot a public referendum to authorize $15.6 million toward the expansion of the school, which if approved by voters would by the end of October 2016 enjoy an expanded capacity from 275 currently (or 370 counting students currently being taught in temporary trailers) to 500.

According to School Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones, speaking to the City Council Monday night, the new project would relieve pressures on the rest of the system, allowing in particular for second grade students at the now-strapped Thomas Jefferson Elementary to locate at Mt. Daniel.

The $15.6 million price tag on the project will add up to slightly over $1 million a year in debt service, according to Richard LaCondre, the Citys chief financial officer, and $1 million of the funds would be expended in the current fiscal year, followed by $8 million in FY2015 and $6.6 million in FY2016.

While the Council took its move on Monday night, the SchoolBoard followed Tuesday night with a unanimous vote to approve the design plans of the Grunley Construction Company, as presented at a meeting last Thursday of the Architectural Selection Advisory Committee (ASAC) for the schools, preferring them to those submitted by the Hess Company.

As was explained at Tuesdays School Board meeting, the Grunley plan calls for a more complete new construction with access off of Oak Street, while the Hess plan called for keeping key components of the existing building and bringing access off of Highland Avenue.

Grunley was also praised for having a better plan for relocating of students during the construction process.

Superintendent Jones, School Board member John Lawrence and the schools facilities coordinator Steven Padilla attended a meeting with 25 members of the Mt. Daniel Homeowners Association on Monday night, and were happy to report that the reaction from the neighbors to the proposed new construction was very positive, even as concerns for issues such as storm water and parking remain to be resolved to everyones satisfaction.

But constructive discussions on mitigating parking pressures in the neighborhood both during and following construction were held. School Board member Kieran Sharpe hailed the cooperative tone of the meeting with the neighbors, as contrasted with previous experiences when expansion efforts at Mt. Daniel were undertaken.

Dr. Jones told the City Council Monday that the projections for continued robust enrollment growth in the Citys schools ranges out to a 20 year time frame, and that all the capital improvement projects on the drawing boards now, including for a new high school, are being conformed to what projections over that period will involve. It is estimated that the probable life of the newly constructed and reconstructed site will be 50 years.

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A small Eccles church is making a big impact on the community and has plans to begin construction on a food pantry/fellowship hall for the community in the fall or the spring, the pastor reported.

Eccles is a small mining community of around 400 residents, located along W.Va. 3 in Raleigh County.

Life Point Apostolic Church Pastor Steve Stover said the 25 full-time members of the independent Life Point Apostolic Church want to offer Eccles and Whitesville residents, along with those of other communities, a place that shows Gods love.

It would benefit anyone, said Stover. We wouldnt put any limitations on it.

The church shares the Eccles Community Church building with Eccles Community Church, according to Stover, and hundreds of visitors have walked through the doors for Life Point church services on Sunday and Wednesday evenings.

The food pantry is planned for the parking lot of the church.

Were wanting to build a food pantry/fellowship hall to where its hooked up to a generator, said Stover. So if the power goes off, the generator would automatically kick on.

He noted that there are many senior citizens in the Eccles area.

If something happened (like the 2012 derecho) it would be a good place for the people to go, thats air-conditioned and has free food for the community.

Reaching Eccles residents and others is a main focus of the church, and Stover emphasized that Life Point church members not just their pastor are behind the food pantry and have a passion for showing Gods love to their communities.

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The LDS Church began showing a new film for temple instruction Tuesday. Temples, such as this one in Gilbert, Arizona, are dedicated to sacred worship.

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SALT LAKE CITY A year after the LDS Church began using a new film for temple instruction for the first time in 20 years, and six months after introducing a second, a third new film is in rotation.

The latest film presentation began showing Tuesday in 30 of the 143 operating temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a church spokesman confirmed.

The new film is only in English for now. Like the others, its use will expand to other temples around the world over time and as translations are prepared.

The script in each of the films is the same. The films are shown in a rotation to provide variety to temple instruction.

The church released the first of the three new films in July 2013. That version also was released on a smaller scale, but it is now widely used in temples around the world in multiple languages.

The second new film entered the temple rotation in January.

A portion of LDS temple instruction has been provided through pre-recorded media, including film, since the 1970s.

Mormon temple worship occurs in 143 dedicated temples around the world. LDS temple worship differs from regular Sunday worship services held by 29,253 congregations in buildings called chapels or meetinghouses.

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