wfn.org | CORRECTION: Groundbreaking service held

["Disciples Off. of Communication"<wshuffit@oc.disciples.org>]

for
Columbus congregation
Date: May 21, 1999
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
E-mail: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
on the Web: http://www.disciples.org

Correction
Please us the following release instead of the 
May 20 DNS release
99b-38, Groundbreaking service held for Columbus
congregation.

99b-38 

  COLUMBUS, Ohio (DNS) -- The groundbreaking, May 
2, for
the first unit of New Fellowship Christian Church 
here signaled the
start of a building project that will include 400 
volunteers from
across the country before it is finished in 
September. 

  The 80-member church is the first Disciples 
congregation to
have a building erected through Vision Builders! 
Construction.
Beginning June 1 through Aug. 28, volunteers will 
help church
members build a 6,000 square foot facility 
located in southeast
Columbus. 

  The Rev. David Foster, pastor, and Nolita 
Squires, an associate
minister at the church, led guests in a service 
of worship and
celebration at the construction site. Other 
participants included the
Rev. Jim Bane, Ohio associate regional minister, 
and the Rev.
Deborah Thompson, director of Vision Builders!. 
Thompson
thanked New Fellowship members for allowing the 
greater church
to be a part of their congregation's growth and 
ministry.  

  Charleta Taveras, a New Fellowship member and 
City Council
representative, joined Foster and other church 
members --
including founding members Audrey Cobb, 
secretary; Annette
Shelton, moderator; and Dolores Foster, wife of 
the Rev. David
Foster -- in actually "breaking ground" for the 
new sanctuary.

  Also on hand was volunteer construction manager 
Earl Watson.
He and his spouse, Gretchen, the project 
accounting secretary, will
live on-site during the summer. A retired 
Disciples pastor, the Rev.
Chuck Babcock, is coordinator of the New 
Fellowship construction
project. He and his spouse, Burnell, who serves 
as meals
coordinator, also will live on-site during 
construction.

  Pledging ongoing support from Columbus area 
Disciples
pastors and congregations was the Rev. Morgan 
Wickizer, St.
Andrew Christian Church. Other Disciples 
ministers present
included the Rev. Greg Widener, pastor, East 
Christian Church;
and the Revs. Kerry Reed, pastor, and Kay 
McGlinchy, associate,
Gender Road Christian Church. Both East Christian 
and Gender
Road churches will house volunteers during the 
construction phase.

  Volunteer work groups and individuals from 
Alabama,
Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Texas 
and
Washington already are scheduled to share in this 
venture. Others
wishing to volunteer may contact the Vision 
Builders! office at
P.O. Box 7030, Indianapolis, IN 46207. Interested 
persons also
may call (800) 274-1883, or send electronic mail 
to
vb@bce.disciples.org. 

  Vision Builders! Construction organizes 
volunteers to help
erect church buildings. Vision Builders! is the 
fundraising and
promotional arm of the denomination's New 
Congregation
Establishment ministry.

  For more information, visit the Vision 
Builders! Construction
website at: 
http://www.christianchurchinohio.org/visionbuilder
s/vbcol/Default.htm  
 
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  Information for this release was provided by 
Cindy Bowman,
volunteer publicity coordinator with the Columbus 
Vision
Builders! project.