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GODdard's Place

News: John Stockstill
Friday, May 1, 2009

Within the past month or so, work has been completed on the ministry venture in the former Grace Baptist Church building in Goddard, located at 1001 S. Goddard Road (199th Street) known as GODdard'S Place. With help from the youth of several area churches, there were some mission service projects completed over Spring Break the week of March 16 - 20. The participating churches included Believers, Metropolitan, and Southwind Fellowship, along with a few adults for supervision and assistance. The partition walls that were in the basement have been taken down and the salvageable material was kept for future use. Also, in the basement, the tile removal process has started. Upstairs in what was the old sanctuary, the project teams were able to utilize a floor polishing machine and a sanding disc to sand off the residual carpet padding and prepare for new flooring. Outside of the building the poles that remained from the small chain-link fence were removed and progress was made in an effort to "spruce-up" the flower beds.

Contact has been made with an outside mission team who is looking at putting down new carpet and painting the former sanctuary to prepare it for new ministries. With continued efforts, it is believed that GODdard'S Place will be a facility to utilize beginning in the fall of 2009 with outreach events conducted in connection to the Goddard High School. It is believed that this ministry venture can have an impact in the Goddard community and reach beyond Goddard through student and adult involvement and participation. As GODdard'S Place gains notoriety through events, it is believed that enough support can be raised to keep it open as a youth center with the vision of seeing it utilized for other purposes including possibly a Senior Center or a regular meeting place for outreaches or potential church growth efforts.