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Children's minister Justin Craig shows what will become the fellowship area during a tour of the expanding Windsor Road Christian Church in Champaign on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014.

CHAMPAIGN Senior Minister Randy Boltinghouse walks through a construction zone at Windsor Road Christian Church, where crews are busy adding more space for a growing congregation.

A dozen years ago, the Champaign church at 2501 Windsor Road served about 500 people on a weekly basis. These days, it's about 900.

Boltinghouse, the senior minister since 1989, doesn't claim any credit for that.

"The Lord has been behind whatever growth we've had, and we are just trying to get out of the way," he said.

The $3.8 million project, which includes an expansion and some remodeling of existing spaces, should be finished next spring, Boltinghouse said, and "God-willing" some children's spaces could be done by this Christmas.

Overall, the church is expanding from 36,000 square feet to 48,000 square feet, with the addition creating badly needed larger spaces for children and teens making up one-third of the congregation, he said.

Some of what is under construction: Larger worship areas for kids and teens, breakout rooms for more focused study, an indoor playground for kids, a larger nursery (with separate spaces for crawlers and walkers), and a new family entrance with more check-in kiosks for parents dropping off their kids.

More fellowship space is also being built for different age groups, church leaders say. That includes a cafe area for adults, an outdoor patio and a gathering space for middle school and high school students with a TV, snacks and games.

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Published: Saturday, 12/6/2014

BY TK BARGER BLADE RELIGION EDITOR

The Reformed Catholic Churchs (RCC) global headquarters in North Toledo is far removed from the Vatican in many ways.

A building that once was the home of Community Church of God, at the corner of Doyle Street and Ketcham Avenue, is now the Holy Cross Reformed Catholic Church, where the RCC is centered. That is also where Metropolitan Archbishop Marc Ignatius Stephen Heckman, who uses the first name Marcis, lives.

The RCC, incorporated in 2000, is a fifth pillar of Catholicism, Archbishop Heckman said. We consider ourselves different because were made up of the Old Catholic movement [centered in Utrecht, Netherlands], the independent Catholic movement, the Orthodox movement, even the Roman movement, so were separate in that aspect.

For the past eight months, Archbishop Jose Israel de la Trinidad also was there after he moved from Puerto Rico, but he recently established a new Toledo residence for his religious order, the Reformed Carmelites. Archbishop Heckman is a Reformed Jesuit; there are RCC versions of several religious orders with Roman Catholic traditions.

Archbishop Trinidad is also principal of the Academy for Educational Excellence, a public charter school on Heatherdowns Boulevard that is Christian oriented, although its not a Christian school, he said. The academy currently has students in kindergarten through grade 5. There, the principal is known as Israel Irizarry-Koppisch, or Mr. Koppisch. He took Trinidad as his religious name. Irizarry-Koppisch is his last name in Hispanic construction, with his fathers last name followed by a hyphen and his mothers last name.

Archbishop Trinidad, 61, moved to Toledo as part of the RCCs own reform. The Church recently consolidated its North American dioceses into one archdiocese, and Archbishop Heckman, 56, who had held the offices of both metropolitan (head of the Church) and U.S. presiding bishop since 2012, made Archbishop Trinidad the presiding bishop of the U.S. Archbishop Heckmans Church work is done as a volunteer, he said; I am disabled, so I dont get to do a whole lot of work, and as he considers himself semi-retired, he appointed Archbishop Trinidad to lead the U.S. Church while he focuses on the RCC around the world.

There are RCC congregations on the African continent, in the Philippines, in Europe, and in Central and South America. In the U.S., congregations are in about eight states and Puerto Rico, with parishes forming in other states.

Holy Cross, in Toledo, has 20 to 30 members, Archbishop Heckman said, but you dont get that many here. Were lucky to get 12 in the pews most of the time; I admit that. But the church is full on Christmas Eve, he said Holy Cross will have a lessons and carols service at 8 p.m. and a midnight Mass.

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CEDARBURG -- There's controversy over a religious site in the heart of Cedarburg. A Lutheran church wants to build a place for cremated ashes, but the city says no.

Crews were only able to install cabinets before the city learned the church was going ahead with the project without a valid permit.

"You can put one in your house, on your mantle, yard, you just can't sell the niches because only a church can do that," said Rev. Janis Kinens.

Reverend Kinens is referring to where one can freely place cremated remains of their loved ones. For the past four years, the Advent Lutheran Church has been working to build acolumbariumfor its members in a prayer garden in downtown Cedarburg.

Paul Rushing is the architect.

"I poured a lot of time and effort because I think it's a good thing," said Paul Rushing.

But Thursday morning, all work came to a halt when a city inspector told them to cease construction.

The city attorney says this summer the church was told the project would not be permitted due to a state statute defining acolumbariumas a mausoleum - a place that could only be housed in a cemetery.

The pastor disagrees the two are the same.

"It is fair to say the city and the church agree to disagree on the interpretation of the state statute," says City Attorney Michael Herbrand.

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