StillStanding
06-11-2007, 10:23 AM
Link: Church to renovate Midstate school (http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=7)
From the Tennessean:
A few months back, Maury Davis took a walk through the Gene W. Brown Elementary School in Hendersonville.
He didn't like what he saw. In his opinion, the 50-year-old school was neglected and had been allowed to run down.
"We realized that there was a need at that school," said the pastor of Cornerstone Church in Madison. "For a number of years we had spent well over a million dollars in missions in foreign countries and realized that there were some needs right here in our hometown."
Beginning Monday, his congregation will begin to address some of those needs.
Volunteers from Cornerstone Church and local businesses will embark on a weeklong "extreme renovation" project at the school. They will do everything from repairing, replacing and painting to landscaping in a $180,000 project to make the school almost brand new when students return this fall.
The church will provide 105 new computers, install 28 new toilets and 17 new sinks, pave 100 yards of concrete, paint the entire school, replace floors, carpets, seal and re-strip the parking lot, landscape the grounds and update the playground.
"For a number of years, Cornerstone has reached out around the world," Davis said in a news release. "Now it's time to do something significant, to reach out and affect the lives in our hometown, where God has called us."
He is getting donations from businesses in town to help out, and getting plenty of publicity from the TV stations and newspapers.
From the Tennessean:
A few months back, Maury Davis took a walk through the Gene W. Brown Elementary School in Hendersonville.
He didn't like what he saw. In his opinion, the 50-year-old school was neglected and had been allowed to run down.
"We realized that there was a need at that school," said the pastor of Cornerstone Church in Madison. "For a number of years we had spent well over a million dollars in missions in foreign countries and realized that there were some needs right here in our hometown."
Beginning Monday, his congregation will begin to address some of those needs.
Volunteers from Cornerstone Church and local businesses will embark on a weeklong "extreme renovation" project at the school. They will do everything from repairing, replacing and painting to landscaping in a $180,000 project to make the school almost brand new when students return this fall.
The church will provide 105 new computers, install 28 new toilets and 17 new sinks, pave 100 yards of concrete, paint the entire school, replace floors, carpets, seal and re-strip the parking lot, landscape the grounds and update the playground.
"For a number of years, Cornerstone has reached out around the world," Davis said in a news release. "Now it's time to do something significant, to reach out and affect the lives in our hometown, where God has called us."
He is getting donations from businesses in town to help out, and getting plenty of publicity from the TV stations and newspapers.