Building Project Campaign

   Ground Breaking Ceremony | July 18, 2010 @ 5pm

 

Hingham Journal 7/22/10 Article of our Groundbreaking Ceremony

Additional Photos   

Giving to make His Glory Known

Building Finance Update
Thank you for your generous hearts as 224 families and individuals have pledged $6,905,000 toward the building expansion project. Our goal is still $7,000,000, so we are getting close and some are still considering their gifts. We plan to go forward with the project with construction beginning in mid-summer and of course the more funds committed now, the smaller the now planned $2.6MM loan will need to be. Please continue to pray for God’s will to be done and that he may be glorified through our generous giving.

February 7th marks the lauch of our Building Campaign.  Below you will find a variety of links that SSBC’s Building Finance Committee has assembled for you to prayerfully consider giving to this building project.

Building Campaign Devotional Study Guide - “This study guide was prepared for you to study what Scripture teaches about money, our hearts and giving… Don’t waste this season of facility expansion by merely focusing on putting up bricks and mortar.  It’s time to draw close to God and awaken from our lukewarm complacency so we will be spiritually ready to use this building”  -Pastor Jeramie, taken from the Devotional Study Guide p. 1

Building Campaign Brochure - Find out more about SSBC’s vision, project, and your role

Commitment Card - please prayerfully consider what you will give to support the vision.  Please use this card for your pledge committment.

Project Backdrop

The church has continued to grow to the point where ministry is beginning to be restricted due to lack of space. In order to effectively serve the people of the Hingham area in the future, we need to increase our sanctuary and Sunday School facilities. Over several years the Church has prayerfully sought God’s will in the expansion plan and continues to look in faith to God’s direction and timing. The mission of the Church has always been to reach out to the lost and to build up the faith of believers who come to worship as opposed to numeric growth. The elders and the congregation have determined that the most effective strategy to accommodate the growth is to build in the current location.

Project Status –  

February 2010 - This month SSBC starts its building campaign.  See links above to learn about giving to the Glory of God and his work here on the South Shore of Boston.

January 2010 - The church voted to proceed with the building project by a 170-6 approval (96%).  

October 2009 | These are encouraging times for the building project! The church has received approvals from the town and the architect’s drawings are really exciting. We will be having a church-wide building informational meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 7:30pm in Fellowship Hall. Please continue to be in prayer and plan to participate.

The meeting will have three parts:

1. Walkthrough of the Plans - The Building Committee will walk through the space use plans envisioned and seek additional feedback
2. Question and Answer - Discussion time will be planned for any and all questions comments with the hope that we will all have a fuller and even more unified understanding of what we are about to undertake
3. Presentation- Jeramie will address the direct linkage of this building project with the mission and needs of SSBC and specifically deal with the question, “Why not just plant churches?”

September 2009 | Update: The Hingham Historical Commision, will be meeting at 7:30PM on Monday September 12 to discuss the church’s proposed disposition plan for the 10/12 Free Street house. We continue to hope to relocate the house to another location within Hingham if practicable. If you are aware of anyone with a parcel of land nearby that might want to add a historic house, please contact Brad Warner at bwarner@usa.net right away.

Please continue to bring the building project to God in prayer.
 

Summer 2009 | The Hingham Historic District’s Board has approved our building proposal.  The Historical Commission is now reviewing our disposition plan for the 10 Free Street house which his our final board review.  We still hope to relocate the house.  If you know of anyone interested in adding a historic house to their land, please conact Brad Warner ( bwarner@usa.net), and please continue to pray for God’s will. 

January 2009 | A hearing before the Hingham Conservation Commission on the Church’s building plan is tentatively scheduled for Monday evening, January 26.  Our engineering firm, SITEC is preparing for the Conservation hearing and will work with a consultant to the Board in order to demonstrate that our proposed system appropriately addresses the state’s new stormwater management regulations.

November 2008 | Significant milestones are being reached on the building expansion project. A permit was formally issued in early November by the Board of Health. Preparations are now underway for more detailed architect’s plans to be drawn to include parking and street access/egress. Once completed those plans will be included in a traffic impact study and submitted as a part of the proposal package to the town Planning Board. Please continue to contact any of the committee members with any additional thoughts you may have on space use. Please continue to e-mail your suggestions to the Building Committee for space use and other insights and recommendations to Rick Goodenough or to any other members of the committee.Building Expansion Committee Members –

• Gerry Bennett, Chair gerrybennett@comcast.net
• Deborah Flanagan dflana01@comcast.net
• Kent Forkner forkner.km@tbcam.com
• Rick Goodenough rsgssbc@msn.com
• David Parks tdavidp@prodigy.net
• Ginny Van Meter kenneth.vanmeter@comcast.net
• Brad Warner bhwarner@usa.net

Key Planning Resources –

Engineers – SITEC

• Rod Gaskell
• A. Raymond Quinn

Architect

• Vcevy Strekalovsky

Attorney

• John F. Shea