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Redwood (CA) to Worship in New Building Sunday
SANTA ROSA, CA (June 25, 2003) - Redwood Covenant Church will be worshiping in
its new building for the first time on Sunday (June 29) after moving into
the $8.5 million facility last Saturday.
About 180 people helped in the process of moving furniture and other items
from Redwood's former facility into the new building, said a church staff
member Tuesday. The church will officially dedicate its new building on
September 14. Glenn R. Palmberg, president of the Evangelical Covenant
Church, will preach at those Sunday worship services.
Redwood Covenant Church began building its 43,000-square-foot facility last
August, one month before the lease on the church's former facility expired,
said the church's business manager Dennis Edwards. The new facility
includes a worship center that will seat 750, along with a commercial-grade
kitchen and children's and youth wings. Del Starrett, a parishioner at the
church, was the primary architect for the project, which was undertaken
after a fall retreat nearly two years ago.
In September 2000, Redwood Covenant pastor John Strong asked parishioners
how they envisioned the church moving in the future. In the following
months, leadership was faced with a myriad of questions as Strong and
associate pastors Scott Peterson, Angie Tate and others shared where they
believe God was taking the church. Eventually the
Redwood Covenant leadership made changes in their overall structure and the
church's staff took a prayer and fasting retreat in January 2001 to better
discern the church's future. The building project was one of the key
matters of discussion, although the church also added a pastor, Alejandro
Sotres, to minister to a growing Hispanic population in and
around Santa Rosa.
National Covenant Properties assisted in the financing for Redwood
Covenant, which has an average worship attendance of 750. For more
information about the church and its building project, call Edwards at
707-528-8463 or email him at dennis@redwoodcovenant.org. A more detailed
story of how Redwood Covenant began its building project will be posted
later this summer in this Covenant news report.
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