CPRC Church
Building
The
CPRC owns a piece of land of approximately ¾ of an acre at the west end
of Clarence Street off the Cullybackey Road in Ballymena.
For
a map of Ballymena (with Clarence Street on the left hand side and in
the upper half), click here.
For
a more detailed map (with Clarence Street near the centre), click here.
For
the last few years we have been saving up to erect our own church
building on our site, something increasingly pressing as we are
outgrowing the rented facilities we use for our Lord’s Day worship
services.
We
have plans drawn for a building of 432m2. The downstairs consists
of 2 main parts, both 12m by 12m. One part is the main hall for public
worship which should hold up to 150 people. The other part includes a
prayer or meeting room suitable for 60+ people, a kitchen, three WCs
(for males, females and disabled), a crèche with its own WC, and a
boiler room. From the crèche one
can see into the main hall through sound-proof glass. A speaker will
carry the audio from the worship service into the crèche.
Only
one half of the downstairs is vaulted: the main hall. Stairs lead up
from the other half to the first floor which will include a couple of
small rooms, a kitchenette and a gallery from which people can see down
into the main hall through a double glazed screen. Tommy Hamill is our
project manager.
For
pictures of our site before it was cleared, click here.
Pictures
of our site being cleared of rubble, tree stumps, etc., and being
covered with 4 inch stones.
We
hope to lay the foundations and so start building in the summer of 2008.
Those
who wish to help us financially with our church building may contact one
of the two below:
Ivan
Reid
26
Hawthorne Grove
Glynn
Larne
BT40
3HE
N.
Ireland
(make
cheque payable to “CPRC”)
or
Protestant
Reformed Churches in America
Theological
School of the Protestant Reformed Churches
4949
Ivanrest Ave.
Grandville
MI
49418
USA
(make
check payable to “PRCA” and include a memo that the donation is for
the CPRC [N. Ireland] Building Fund)
“Every
man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not
grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is
able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all
sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work … Thanks be
unto God for his unspeakable gift” (II Cor. 9:7-8, 15).
By
divine grace, this building will be used for the proclamation of the
biblical and Reformed gospel of Jesus Christ to the glory of the Triune
God.
